One week down, three more to go! I thought I would write a small update. One of our goals this month was to finish four projects around the house here. I'm happy to say that we are done with the biggest one of the four - we painted our living room!
It wasn't a bad color to begin with:
I took this picture in the middle of the painting process, hence all the mess. I promise, it's usually cleaner and less cluttered :) This color was natural and pretty, just too dark. We only have one window in this room, and no ceiling light. So it would get SO dark in the evenings. The new color works so much better:
It's not a big reveal :) It's just a little sneak peak into our living room :) Lots of things still need to be changed here. But this is Valspar Polar Star color. It's such a pretty, very light grey - it's not white. If you look at the border with the ceiling you'll see the difference.
It makes our living room so much brighter and lighter. I'm in love with this color!
But we spent the WHOLE day yesterday moving furniture back and forth, patching walls, sanding, taping and then painting, painting, painting...I saw somewhere that if you paint for 3 hours, you burn 725 calories. I think I burnt all 2000 yesterday!! My body is still aching today as if I did a triathlon or something...
But I'm happy to be done! We want to eventually install crown molding in this room (That's why we didn't tape the top when we painted). Our house value went up significantly in the last few months, and even though we are not going anywhere, we want this place to be in top shape when the time comes. And little changes make a huge difference!
Other than that, this week I went grocery shopping and bought tons. I stocked up on necessities and some canned and frozen foods. I think, I will skip grocery stores next week. I might need milk though. Oh, and diapers...Potty training really drives me crazy...I might just give up and let him pee his underwear until he's in high school...Ugh...He's in his underwear all day long but I put a diaper back on for the night. Twenty pairs of undies don't last long...So far he peed in the toilet once. And he hates it...
Oh well, I know you are so excited to read about our bathroom adventures :) Sorry, I just needed to let off some steam :) How was your week? Anything exciting happened?
There's nothing like a fresh coat of paint to brighten things up. Even though you are sore, I know that you are glad to be done.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so glad to be done! I actually love painting and the difference it makes but Hubby wants to put me on a 5-year plan (you know, painting once every five years)...Hahaha, good luck to him!
DeleteHi Lena - painting is one of the cheapest ways to increase the value of your home! Great job - I really love that colour too! Grey is IN!!
ReplyDeleteGrey is definitely in in our house because it's the second room that I used it in in a row :) But I love how bright yet soothing it is.
DeleteYou will get there with the potty training. We even tried puttin m and m's in the toilet as targets -- no luck!
ReplyDeleteOh, mine will probably try to swim them out and eat them!! He can play in his pee on the floor if I don't watch him like a hawk! It's all so new to me- I hope I have enough patience!!
DeleteIt's always awesome when you love the color of paint you've put up. We have a room w/paint I'm not overly fond of, but hubby loves it, so it stays. ;) I like the light gray, it's pretty, and I'm glad it lightens up the room.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rosey!! It too some convincing for my husband too but now he loves it so much more :)
DeleteSpeaking of grocery shopping, I found a beer rebate at Smiths - $10 off groceries of $25 or more. Do you need one? I picked up an extra.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, I do!! I haven't seen any rebates for a longest while!!
DeleteI always have such a long to do list! Yuck. Every time I scratch one thing off the top of the list, one thing gets added to the bottom. Why is this? LOL
ReplyDeleteI really like the color... although the other color was not bad at all.. but I'm sure the new paint makes it feel a lot better.
ReplyDeleteYou're so great at decorating etc... :) Wanna come spruce up my house too? ;)
ReplyDeleteAs for potty training, in my opinion, he's not ready yet and you're stressing yourself & him out in the process. I'd tuck away the "big boy" underpants and try again in a month or so... but just my unsolicited opinion. ;) Been there, done that my friend!
Love the color, understand the pain!Try taking his favorite candy like M&M's or Skittles and help him count to twenty as you put the candies in a special bowl. Every time he wets his pants you take away a candy. By night time he gets the pieces that are left. Don't make a big deal out of it. If he pees 20 times no candy if he only pees 10 he gets 10 candies. Positive reinforcement.
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