Wednesday's Weekly Update #6

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

Mark and I have been looking at things for months now and I almost feel like there are way too many choices out there!

This weekend we had to finalize our granite counter tops and we

chose to just look at one store's selection - Cost Less Carpet.

They have this many choices times two (I couldn't get the other half in the picture and since it was cold and very, very windy, I took this from the front seat of my car while Mark was outside with the sales guy).

Here's our selection: It's called Copper Canyon.

And another angle:

We also stopped by Pier One and I chose a picture for the dining room that has the exact same red color as the future kitchen walls:

(It even has Mark's stamp of approval since it has the trees in it - he's very picky!)

Last week the house was insulated all the way and then sheet rocked, and taped. When I went down today to take pictures they were working on the last part of the texturing. It was hard to take pictures since everything was so wet but things do look very different!

Owen's desk and closet area:

Part of Mark's den:

Family room:

Dining Room:

Other side of dining room leading into the family room:

Garage:

Once all this texturing is dry it's Mark and I's turn to get busy. We are doing all of the painting ourselves. Yup - that's right. Both inside and outside we will be doing. The bid for professional painters was over 13,000 dollars and we quickly decided that if there was one thing we knew how to do, it was paint (and the total cost for us to do it was 2,200 dollars. I got the paint at 40% off during a Sherwin-Williams paint sale and we have been happily storing 85 gallons of paint in our bedroom since November). So...we will be very busy for the next week or so working on the inside! First primer and then color! Now that the walls are in place, I can really get a feel for each room - it's so cool!