We are officially home! After a busy weekend away, Brady and I have ourselves and our kids tucked away at home. Well, it definitely looks like a different home, but I’ll take it happily!
The new color on the walls is beautiful. The Behr paint served us well. It is smooth and rich and the eggshell finish was the perfect choice. *pats myself on the back* We opted for three greys to go throughout the house. The lightest in our room, the darkest in our kitchen and dining room, and the medium shade is everywhere else. The living room, the hallway to the kids room, the stairwell, the entrance, and a few other little alcoves and wherever else needed new paint. I love the colors. I would happily live in these colors for years to come.
If I can be a bit of a Debby downer, the fresh new walls make everything else look so bad 🙁 The mouldings and baseboards are discolored and the doors are filthy. Everything that should be white looks yellow. Ugh. So now begins the task of cleaning everything like crazy in hopes that there is legitimate white under there, and if not, so begins yet more painting to make the whole place look more crisp and clean. We knew there would be more to do after painting, of course. With painting comes touch ups and cleaning and reassembling rooms and dust and general messiness. And thats ok! It just seems like a lot. Perhaps it was our bad, starting to paint in my 37th week of pregnancy, but the whole thing seems to be catching up to us, and it feels a little bit overwhelming. But we will succeed 🙂 Brady and I have come to terms with the fact that we will NOT finish this entire house before the baby comes, and that is more than fine. It would be unreasonable to expect that of ourselves, and its not like we’ll be listing our house the day we come home from the hospital with the baby. Best of all, the baby truly doesn’t care if our baseboard are yellowed or theres a dust bunny in the corner of the room. All we need is some normalcy, and functionality.
So! This evening, hopefully we’ll get the kitchen appliances pushed back where they belong. I LOVE me a functioning kitchen! And then ideally, we’ll get our bedroom back to at least the right things being in the right places. We’ll need to clean as we go, and that can’t all happen this evening, as we’re both feeling pretty whooped, but a general tidy will help me feel better for the moment anyway.
The kids are wired and haven’t slept super well away from home, as is a pretty common thread, I think, so they’ll likely be having snack foods for supper (apples, crackers, meat, cheese, etc) and then going to bed early. These poor overtired kids. I think today is the first day I’ve ever wanted to call them brats. I love them, but my goodness, they are running me into the ground today! We are all tired.
All things said and done, I’m very happy with the colors we picked. They look beautiful on the walls, and I can’t wait to get the rooms back in some kind of order so I can post pictures up here for you guys. But right now, everything is still in the centre of the rooms, draped with old sheets, and draped further in dust. Once its even a little bit prettier, I WILL put up pictures. I’m so very happy with how it all looks with the lighter color. I loved the dark for a time, but its time for openness and brightness.