The Move Draws Nigh

The painting is done!!!!!! Let's take a look at how some of the bedrooms turned out:





So here's the master bedroom. The wall the bed will be against is extremely purple and was originally dubbed "The Grimace" until my brother pointed out the negative aspects of naming anything in your bedroom "The Grimace". "Purplesaurus Rex" was deemed more appropriate. The other three walls are more of a lavender...closer to white. The overall effect is pretty nice, I'd say.



You might be able to see in this second picture that there's some drippy areas. Evidently the last owners weren't too careful with the paint, so any drips they left kinda become double-drips. Once we get furniture in there, it probably won't be too noticeable, though.









This third picture gives you a better idea of how that light purple color turned out. I enjoy purple, so I like the final result.














Here's the guest bedroom:

Now, we picked these colors based solely on looks. As it turns out, the names compliment each other...the dark brown wall is "Chocolate Sparkle" and the other three cream walls are "Vanilla Delight". We swear we didn't do that on purpose, but we're not above running with the idea. Jenn wants to make sure to put something pink in there so we can call it the Neapolitan Room.







I just realized that I never took any pictures of the small bedroom. It still has to be cleaned up, though, so I'll take some pics tomorrow. The wallpaper was surprisingly easy to remove!

We also attempted the faux finish we had planned for the kitchen. The idea was to "rag on" a caramel colored glaze over the yellow walls. Jenn, being the intelligent person she is, decided to test it behind the stove first. Judge for yourself:


Yeah. Meh. We scrapped that idea and shoved the oven back in place. The yellow is nice and bright on its own, especially when the sun comes in the kitchen window.












Still, we wanted to spruce up the kitchen a little more. Jenn thought the hardware on the cabinets were too generic, so we went to Home Depot and picked up 20 new handles. Here's what the old ones looked like:

Kinda blah. Just plain white tubes that blend in with the cabinets. Nice, but not...y'know...great.
















Here's what the new handles looks like:

Ah, now these are nice. Classy like Ron Burgundy's San Diego. Of course, such a simple thing as replacing drawer/cabinet handles is not capable of being easy. As my Dad will inevitably sing during any given project "Nothin's ever easy, ever easy...". We started replacing the handles on the sink side of the kitchen. The existing holes were about a millimeter too far apart for the new handles to fit properly. Ok, no problem. I just grab my drill and widen one of the holes so it fits. I only have to do this for a few of them, so it wasn't too bad. 10 handles are now in place.

Then we go to try and replace the ones on the other side. The white handles there were identical at first glance before we went to the Depot to buy the new ones. However, all 10 handles on this side of the kitchen are smaller. By a quarter of an inch. Home Depot only carries our new handles in the one size. They probably have plenty of handles for sale that would fit these other cabinets, but none that will match the 10 we've already installed. Yeah. So, after consulting with my Dad (and being reassured that, indeed, nothing is ever easy) I caulked up on hole on each door/drawer and will spackle them in the hopes that they'll blend into the cabinet face after I drill new holes to make the new handles fit. The other most encountered reaction to this story is "welcome to the joys of home ownership!" ....thanks.

One thing that went well was the table we obtained from my Aunt Betsy and Uncle John:

This is it with the center leaf engaged...the process for putting it in is pretty awesome. I'll have to get a video of it and post it here. All the green stuff you see on the table and chairs is wrought iron, so it's all pretty heavy and sturdy. We're gonna repaint the iron black at some point soon and have already covered the fake pink marble with a tablecloth. With the addition of our current kitchen table, we may actually be able to accommodate enough people for a family dinner!




So, that's it for now. I finally figured out a way to stop that video below from automatically starting every time you load this page. I know it annoyed me, anyway. We're gonna start moving things in slowly throughout the week and should be moved in by the end of this weekend. Wish us luck!