Paint

 I am FINALLY done painting the main areas of the downstairs and the hallway upstairs. Man it took forever. I was trying to get it done before we moved in but with our crazy schedule I was not able to pull it off. Then when our pipes froze the day after we moved in, it put things are the back burner for a few days.
Those tall ceilings are a big job to tackle.  The color is only a few shades darker then what was here before but I am happy with the color. I always start off saying I am going real dark but in the end I choose a lighter color. I really like to live in light spaces. I love when the sun shines in. The way our home sits it does not get a ton of sunlight and there are no windows in the kitchen so I had to be careful not to make it feel like a cave.

I love the clean look of fresh paint. Plus getting rid of that flat paint was a must.

Paint

Am I the only person in the world who has such a hard time choosing a paint color? I am known as the girl who has 10-12 samples of tans. Call me sometime and you can borrow them too. They are great for narrowing down colors. So I always tell suggest to people that they definitely need to get a quart of the color before they dive into a gallon or worse yet the 5 gallon. You have to put the color on your wall to really get a feel for it. So before I do a repaint my walls always look something like this.

But I learned it is a better to be safe then sorry. Many times I thought I had chosen the perfect color just to bring it home and hate it.

There has got to be 30,000 different shades of tan/beige, basic house colors, out there so why is it I can never find one? Once again in the end I had a color custom mixed for me. Did you know your paint store can do 1/2 strength of a color? They can even do double strength.  I learned that Home Depot is not aware that they can actually do this but actually there little computers have it all figures out for them. I did end up training 3 different salesmen in the paint department how to do this once the first guy finally admitted that they could do it ( after he had told me they could not). In the end I went with 1 1/2 strength Mushroom bisque.

WELCOME

6 Months ago our little family of 5 relocated to Austin Texas. We rented a duplex and spent the last few months looking for the perfect home. We had narrowed it down and had decided to build our home.  We were on our way to make our final decision on a lot and sign a contract, but there was just one more home real close by that we wanted to stop by and see. I can't really explain it but we walked in and knew immediately it was our home. It was far from perfect but it had all the potential we needed.
So welcome to our new home.

I started this blog to document all the fun updating we do on the home.  We feel like the home just needed to be revived and our budget is low so come along as we take what we have and breath new life into it.

 

re·vive verb \ri-ˈvīv\

: to return to consciousness or life : become active or flourishing again

transitive verb

1

: to restore to consciousness or life

2

: to restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state : bring back