Paint! Paint! Paint!

Well, the entire house has been painted!  All 22 gallons!  There is a primer and coat on the ceiling, primer and coat on the walls,  and a primmer and 2 coats on the trim and the doors. It was a stretch in the end but now it is done!  

 

 

 

Dinning Room Lamp

I picked up the new dinning room lamp from Lowes.  I had it delivered to the store.  I was so excited to see how shinny and pretty it was, so I opened the box.  I guess I need to put it all together :/.  I should have figured that out myself.  Can't wait til we hang it on the ceiling. 

Lights!

After a couple trips to Lowe's I have decided on these three lights.  The kitchen, dining room, and living room are basically one large L shaped room in this house.  The first one is for the dining room, the second for the kitchen, and the third for the living room.  They are all brushed nickel from Lowes.   I am not sure about the living room light.   What do you think? 

Lights found here:
Kitchen or Kitchen $98
Living Room $60
Dinning Room $135

Flooring

We are trying to figure out the flooring for the house.  We would like to go with a laminate.  This way we can keep it clean, and do not have to worry about the dog.  We would prefer to have laminate floors on the entire first and second floor.  This issue with this scenario is then we would have to do the staircase.  What do you think?  Should we just have carpet in the three bedrooms, upstairs hallways and stairs?  Should we do laminate throughout? 

Let the Planning Begin!

 

Well the house is not officially ours yet.   The inspection is on Friday.  But here is a picture of the dining room taken from the living room.  

We would like to get rid of the green carpet and put in laminate floors.  The question is install it ourselves or have someone do it for us?  I have been told light and dark laminate shows dirt, so I am not sure on the color.  Heather has dubed the green carpet "putting green".  I am thinking a little darker.  Then I would to take down the boarder, paint the walls a light tan and the trim white.  Tang asked me what I wanted for a house warming gift and I said "A Painter".  I then would like to change the light, and paint the back door that is currently green a white because it is an outside door.  Finally new bamboo blinds for the windows.