Happy Friday! We've all made it through another week. It has been a pretty productive one for Matt and I. And I did take pictures! I'll get to those in a minute.
A few exciting things happened this week. The first being that we paid our first mortgage payment! And to top that off, we paid our last rent payment (hopefully ever..)! Not fun that we had to pay both in one month overlapping but it is very much worth it. We are also currently doubling up on bills but that will end in less than a month. And the other exciting thing from this week is that Emili and I registered for our marathon!! We are officially running the Marine Marathon in Washington, DC in October. Emili sent me an article today from the website that listed famous people that have run the marathon and I'm proud to say we'll be running along where greats like Oprah and Al Gore have run before us. (Sense the sarcasm? Although I do love Oprah.)
I feel like lately all we have been doing is spending money but that is what I expected with the house. The good news though is that we have been sticking to our monthly budget, exclusive of house expenses. It feels great to know that! So one day it will go back to normal. About that water in the basement.. Matt had a guy come today and look at it and they quoted us $20k to do all kinds of things to the house. ha. Definitely not going with that guy and definitely figuring out something different to do. I think we are going to install french drains ourselves. I don't necessarily mind the extra work and extra money that will need to be spent for the basement, I am just sad that Matt won't have his music room right away like we had hoped.
In other exciting news, Andy and Crystal (Matt's brother and his fiancee), are moving back to Atlanta tomorrow! We are so excited to have them back down here with us. I am excited to get back into wedding mode and help Crystal with whatever she needs.
Ok time for some pictures. I took these to show you the painting, curtains and blinds. Just pretend like the rest of the mess in all the pictures isn't there because it won't be by the time we move in in 2 weeks.
Remember this picture? I posted it a few posts ago. No more primed walls!:
This is the view from the kitchen into the living room. Notice blinds on all the windows, as well as curtains on the french doors. Those are super cute curtains but you can't really see them in this picture. (also, if you see brush strokes on the blue wall on the top that is only because that part is still wet in this picture, it will dry correctly)
This picture shows more of the kitchen color as well as where we put the new piece of furniture (in the back there, with the green bag on it)
This shocking picture is our guest room. It's hard to capture this green with my camera correctly. You just have to trust me that it looks good and that I have a plan in here!
This is the master bedroom color along with the roman shade there. We are also hanging curtains on the french doors you can see to the right. You may also wonder about those sinks.. had to move them out of the bathroom to paint so this is their temporary home.
And finally, this is also the master bedroom. This is the inset part of the wall that we painted the darker color from the living room. I love the contrast! This wall faces the wall with the roman shade from the previous picture.
Remember this picture? I posted it a few posts ago. No more primed walls!:
This is the view from the kitchen into the living room. Notice blinds on all the windows, as well as curtains on the french doors. Those are super cute curtains but you can't really see them in this picture. (also, if you see brush strokes on the blue wall on the top that is only because that part is still wet in this picture, it will dry correctly)
This picture shows more of the kitchen color as well as where we put the new piece of furniture (in the back there, with the green bag on it)
This shocking picture is our guest room. It's hard to capture this green with my camera correctly. You just have to trust me that it looks good and that I have a plan in here! 
This is the master bedroom color along with the roman shade there. We are also hanging curtains on the french doors you can see to the right. You may also wonder about those sinks.. had to move them out of the bathroom to paint so this is their temporary home.
And finally, this is also the master bedroom. This is the inset part of the wall that we painted the darker color from the living room. I love the contrast! This wall faces the wall with the roman shade from the previous picture.I will post more pictures after the move and after we are settled so that you will believe me that it will all look awesome :)
Hope you have a great weekend, we have a pretty good one lined up!!
Hope you have a great weekend, we have a pretty good one lined up!!
1 comments:
It looks great Julie. We'd like to come see it in person, but it will definitely have to be after you get settled. I can just picture Ada running around in those pictures, there's no telling the damage she would do. To the house and herself.
Post a Comment