Sneak Peak

What do Jeff and I do on our Friday's off?! Home improvements, that's what! This winter (hopefully done before Spring), we are painting all of our wood trim downstairs. This has turned into much bigger of a job than we anticipated but it's well worth it.

Have you ever wanted something so bad that when you finally get it, you realize you looked over a few things? That's what happened when we bought the house. The wood grain trim didn't even phase us, until we started trying to paint and couldn't find a single color that didn't fight with the wood. So, we finally decided to pain it white. Much is involved with that...sand, wiping down, taping, priming, painting, etc.

Today we finished painting the trim in the dining room...which included two doorways, to the kitchen and living room so it was a big room to take on for it being our first one. Oh, and I must add, painting baseboards is NOT fun. I did come up with a brilliant idea though regarding the carpet and not getting paint on it and it worked just well!

Ok, so here is what the dining room looked like before....ugly, right!!! It was this color when we moved in.



And here is a sneak peak of the new white trim from the kitchen leading into the dining room.


I can't wait until it's all done...we still have to paint the dining room, paint the living room and it's trim, paint the hallway and kitchen trim, and then maybe paint the hallways. I am choosing a blue for the dining room...almost gray but not quite. It's strange, I'm not a fan of blue rooms but I have a vision for the dining room and it includes blue, not sure why!

More to come...stay tuned!