Painting decision

Well it has been two days since we decided to paint the house ourselves and after consulting a few people we are starting to rethink this decision. We have decided that we are going to hire someone to paint the house for us, we are going to paint it all one color to start and we can change paint colors over the years after we move in and are not so pushed for time. We are going to go with an off-white or light kaiki color for the walls. We are not crazy on the bright linen white walls, we want something a bit warmer and more inviting.

Today we have an appointment to pick out and order our flooring. We are going to go with laminiate in the bedrooms, tile in the kitchen, dining room, bathroom, foyer, laundry, and pantry. Hardwood in the living room. We have a pretty good idea of what we want so it should not take us too much time to pick it out and order it today. With any luck we can maybe get some of our laminate today and start working on that until they deliver the tile.

We called Armstrong and asked them to push our cabinet delivery back another week or so, we just are not ready for them yet and we will just have to move them in the house and they will be in the way for doing the trim, flooring, and paint. Since our garage door is not on yet, we would not want to store them in the garage.

I have been busy vacumming by hand the floors, there is still so much fine drywall dust on the floors that will not come up with a broom so I am using the small attachment and vaccumming every inch of the flooring. So far I finished Hannah's room, Elijah's room, the kids bathroom, our bedroom, and our closet, I still have our bathroom, the foyer, laundry room, pantry, coat closet, living room, kitchen and dining room to finish yet.

Bill has been busy working on hooking the hot and cold plumbing lines into the manafold. We are getting there, slowly but surely.