Paint, Paint and More Paint!!

Please tell me what the hell we were thinking?

"sure we can save some money and paint the house ourselves!"...it didn't seem like it would be all that hard. Boy were we wrong!! We have a new appreciation for professional painters (aka my friend Dan Smith)

It took A LOT of scraping, taping and priming before we even got to the painting part. OMG - it was pure hell!

At least it's now done and we have moved to the inside of the house. With help from Ann and Conner we have gotten the living room painted. We've also finally gotten the flooring order and that should be installed this week.

For some reason I like painting the inside of the house more than painting the outside! Go figure!!

We're one step closer to the windy city!! :-) Just a few more things on the "to do" list.

Today is the First Day... Well at least for my Blog! :-)

I have been taking many pictures of the remodel of our home but have yet to upload the images. I will make an effort to do so within the next couple of days. August has been CRAZY (We had one week of 100 + temps) but then again everything has gotten crazy once Forrest and I decided to get rid of all of our "stuff" and move to Chicago!

We have finally finished painting the outside of our house - that was a big hurdle!! Now we are painting everything on the inside (with the help of my sister and nephew!). We are scheduled to have all the floors installed next week and I am somewhat nervous about the final outcome. I also have the daunting task of sifting through all my "junk" that I have accumulated over the past 6 years. Most of our furniture and junk has been moved into the garage until we sell it, give it to Goodwill or box it up to move it. URGH! what a pain!