House Update

We have done so much since the last update...we have just been super busy with end of school fun, painting and life in general. The dry walls were finished last Thursday and I naively assumed I would just walk in and start painting...heehee...never been through this before!!! After cleaning the fine dust off the walls and floor for 4 hours (not to mention the boys' bedroom), we had some other pressing duties and I couldn't get back to the room until Friday evening. At that point, Josh and Troy painted the ceilings (hard and not fun!!! ) We painted ALL weekend. I didn't find out about the whole priming your wall before painting until Sat. morning. Yet another trip to Lowe's!! After fighting with the painter's tape (we were trying to go too fast and taping too soon!) and having to repair a few damages, we are almost done with the paint. Here is the look....
The main room is a taupe color.

The bathroom is a pale olive color with a darker olive faux finish on it. We loved the pale olive so much that we decided to put it in the main room as an accent wall.
There is really no good way to get a nice picture of the bathroom paint job. This picture is actually just half way done and it is ugly in this picture!!! :/

But here is what I did...

I painted the room the pale olive all over for the base coat. After it dried, I mixed a darker olive, glaze and water and painted that on to the wall in 3 foot sections. I took a specific brush (don't remember the name??) and did vertical lines straight down. That all had to dry overnight. The next day I painted horizontal lines with the paint/glaze mixture. I then took the brush and made horizontal lines.

In the end it looks like a weave design. The vertical and horizontal lines mesh.

All in all, there are mistakes of course but I like it. Come see it!!! I will try to get a better picture when the lights are installed.

This picture is just the vertical lines....
My brother, Jason, has been working so hard all day to get this tile floor in!! It is now 9:18pm and he is thinking about starting the grout!!! The white circle is where the toilet will go. My kitchen floor is seriously jealous of this new bathroom floor. We may have to update the kitchen next! Sounds like another fun project!

For those of you wondering, Josh did finish the play gym for the kids!!! They LOVE it! It has been very accomodating to our little ones while we work so hard getting the new room done! The long hours (by Josh and Aaron) were worth it! (atleast in my point of view!!) It made 9 little kids happy today (or maybe more...I lose track!!). Since the picture was taken, the monkey bars complete with a ladder swing have been attached.

Next update...how Josh wacked a snake out of the tree that was eating a baby bird and then proceeded to rip the snake's head off its body - all in front of 7 little kids!!! haha!!!