House 2.0

We started the building process of House 2.0 back in early November. We got to pick out a house, the elevation, the plot of land it sits on and then all the finishing! Its an exciting process but at the same time overwhelming because its hard to visualize the conception of everything coming together.

We had lots of meetings over flooring and lighting. We have gone back and forth on color and design. Seriously its harder than it sounds.

We broke ground on January 25th and the process has been in top gear. We visit the house every Saturday morning and it blows my mind each time at how fast they are moving.

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Every time we pull up the street I gasp and my heart grows 10 sizes. Its still very surreal and I count my blessings each day because its only by the grace of God that we have been able to get to this point in life. I am thankful and so grateful for being able to accomplish this at this point in my life.

More Seal

Seal paint will be the death of me.........on a more positive note I am almost done with painting the foyer. I still have the upstairs left to do and touch ups here and there





It looks like I painted all the way up the wall doesn't it? Well I didn't. I ran out of paint and energy half way but who can tell??



We started painting the walls white but that was a horrible idea. It looked awful and not attractive at all.

New Paint

The thought of painting sounds easy. Looking at the walls and envisioning a new paint color sounds easy! picking out paint is easy! buying paint is easy! Starting to paint is a PAIN!!!!!!.

On Saturday I decided to repaint the dinning room. When we first moved in the dinning room was red and the chair rail was really low. We thought about doing  fuax wainscoting on the bottom and paint the top part a gray. Then Chris decides he wants a lighter color, maybe white. We settled for a really light gray from Behr called Natural Gray.  With two coats it just looked okay. When natural sunlight hit certain areas you could see a slight purple hue. This was most likely caused by the red underneath.

We had it like this for month or so and never got around to doing anything about it. Now that I have Saturday's all to myself I took matters into my own hands and decided to paint. I went for a Martha Stewart color called Cement. It's a nice medium color that we both loved and almost painted the family room with this color before we discovered Seal.

I stared painting around 8 am. I used the green Frogs tape. It works better then the blue painters tape.  It took me about and hour and a half to tape and this is because I thought I was going to just paint the top part of the wall and paint the bottom white.  Afterwards I started to paint.....and paint......and paint some more.  After finishing the top part I was not to crazy about leaving the bottom white. I did not start the white part yet but I was trying to envision what it would look like. Our dinning room has a lot of white molding and built-in cabinets and I thought that if I did go for the faux wainscoting, there would be too much white. So I painted the bottom portions too and 2 coats later and a sushi lunch in between, I was done.

I love the overall finish of it . I think the paint looks richer and compliments our hardwood floors.

 



This was the original color.

 

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The bottom half was the Natural Gray by Behr. As you can see it was really light and not quite gray.

 



This is after 2 coats.



I'might paint my women cave this color. I think it would look cute with pink and gold accents....maybe.

 

Anywhos. I hope you guys are staying warm!!!!