Paint

We agonized over paint colors all weekend, but finally settled on a color. We couldn't agree on an accent color so we are just having the house painted all the same color for now. Eventually we will add some accents ourselves...perhaps when we do the crown and windows casings.

We went and bought a queen mattress today for the guest room since we are going to have guests this weekend! We took it by the house to drop it off and check out the paint. It looks great! I am so happy/relieved with our choice. The original color we had chosen was more brown and I didn't think went as well with the staircase. The new color is more taupe and I think it really looks good with the wood on the staircase. It's going to look great once we get all the trim in.

The color we chose is Oat Straw by Behr, but mixed by Frazee. Here is the staircase with the hall half done, so you can get a better idea of the color.

BEFORE

AFTER (I didn't bring the good camera, but you can really see the difference if you look at the casing around the laundry room door)
BEFOREAFTER

So when do we move in?

We closed escrow in the 18th just before 5pm and got our keys shortly after. We checked our mail which was sadly all junk. We went out to Costco and bought a mirror, fire extinguishers, and a carbon monoxide detector - the usual first purchases, right? We also bought a couple of baby gates and knob covers for the stove which didn't work.

Saturday we selected the paint color and epoxied the garage floor. I should say everyone else did and I watched Ethan. And the best part of owning a house...I got to pull weeds in the front yard. We also had our refrigerator, washer and dryer delivered. Unfortunately none of them were installed! The cabinet for the refrigerator came down too far, the gas line connector was too tight so we couldn't hook up the hose, the washer pan was too close to the wall so that hoses in the back of the washer tipped the washer forward so that it doesn't sit flat. Fun!

Tomorrow we are going to pick the paint color for the family room, measure for ordering tile, and if we have time install baby gates. Dave actually has some work work to get done so I'm not sure how much will get done tomorrow. I just can't wait until we actually get to move in!!!

Garage floor while applying the epoxy:
Garage floor complete!

Walk-Through

We had to reschedule it because Dave was really sick on Monday. We went through today and Gigantor was screaming and throwing himself all over the place. So one of us watched him while the other went through the orientation and switched often. Gigantor immediately found the knobs on the stove and started wiggling them around. So one of the first things we need to do: buy baby gates for the stairs and buy knob covers for the stove.

They refogged the stucco (stucco isn't painted anymore) and the outside of the house looks nice and clean again. They repainted the walls and touched up any marks on the walls and baseboard. It looks like the carpets were cleaned too. We found a few things that needed to be addressed, but all in all it looks good.

We got a call from our Escrow people and are getting ready to make things official.

Plumbing in...finally

We have the master bathroom tub and various toilets installed. The laundry room sink is installed and everything seems complete except shower heads! We have our walk-through on Monday morning so at that point it should be very close to done.

We should be signing papers soon because we move in next week!! We hired painters to do the common areas since Dave has a long list of projects starting with tiling the kitchen floor and landscaping the backyard.\
Master bathroom tub
Powder room
Guest bathroom downstairs.
Laundry room