Which color do you like best for the girl's room?
Pink
2
Purple
2
Yellow
1
Off-White
0
Just let them finger-paint and see what you get! ;)
3
My birthday is coming up in a couple weeks, and Dave said he’d let me pick out the paint colors as my present. LOL! We have to repaint anyway, so I told him just to give me a Home Depot gift card and I can pick out something fun like a new light fixture for our bedroom. I don’t really need anything personally, and I’m in a home decorating frenzy right now. My mind has been going in circles, trying to imagine how we’re going to arrange the furniture in each room, what colors to paint, how I can darken the girl’s bedroom window during naps without dark-colored drapes, what we should move over in what order. Since the lease on our apartment isn’t up until March 31st, that gives us two months to move in if we need it, and we just might.
Dave wants to get started scraping the popcorn of the ceilings and retexturing them, before anything else. Then we need to paint the rooms and replace the carpet. Before summer we’ll need to fence off the backyard on either side of the house, to keep Eva from wandering into the street. But it’s so cold right now, that it doesn’t have to be done right away. Eventually we’ll want to replace the kitchen cabinets and put in a sun porch. And the old owners had to take out the wood-burning stove because it was a fire hazard (they’d built the surround out of dry wall and cooked the tiles off). When we have the cash, we want to rebuild the surround to code (with concrete backboards and slate) and put in a new cast-iron stove. My mom suggested some strategically placed skylights, too, since it’s so cloudy and dark over half the year (I haven’t worn sunglasses in months, and have to turn on my headlights when I drive no matter what time of day). It doesn’t have to be done overnight, but each little improvement will build more value into the home, and it’s nice to be able to dream and create our own place again.
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