Progress on the New Homefront

We have been busy trying to cover up the dark olive green that the former owners favored. The first thing that we did was hire our painters back and have them cover up the olive green that was everywhere. And I do mean EVERYWHERE; closets, ceilings ... even the doors and trim were a lighter shade of the dark olive. Larry said that it depressed him. I felt like I was in the middle of an Army camp. So ... 80 gallons of paint later (somewhat like the scene from ET)

We managed to get it white. :-) And we removed all the laminate flooring and the fireplace which did nothing but get in the way!! So now Jason is busy trying to keep up with our ideas. We are doing the kitchen/dining in hand scraped natural maple (which is still on order) and the library in hand scraped elm (you guessed it ~ not in yet) and tile for the rest of the house. The master bedroom tile has a simple patern that of course I had to make more difficult by setting it "on point".

Larry picked out this pattern for the main floor which will include the living room and guest bedroom. Jason is ready to pull his hair out over this one!!

Before any tile or hardwood could go down, cement underlayment had to fitted and nailed down to firm the floor.

And before I forget, we did put color on the walls. :-) Here is the kitchen.

That's all for tonight. I will post more over the weekend. So nice to be back on my blog again!!

Where to start??!!??

Oh my goodness ~ Where should I start? So much has happened since my last blog! Just before we left for IL, we looked briefly at a home that we fell in love with. While in IL, we put a bid in (that's right ~ Larry had only seen the home once!) and just before we left IL we heard the counter and we accepted that. :-) We are so happy. So ... Long story short; we closed on the 16th, funded on the 17th and started remodeling right away. So far we have had the walls primed white (thereby removing all of the very dark olive green that was thruout the house, closets & ceilings) and all of the laminate flooring has been removed as well (which would be all the flooring except for the three baths). Already it is looking so much better!! Or, shall we say, more to our taste?

While in IL, we sorted and packed our little fingers to the bone. :-) We returned to FL with a 27 foot UHaul that was towing my PT Cruiser convertable and a fully packed Aspen including (of course) "the Girls". What a trip home that was!! We have since decided that Larry & I are far too old to attempt to move ourselves and the rest of our stuff will be handled by the professionals. This will be something that our kids will appreciate as well, since they are the ones who were stuck offloading all the boxes and the few (but heavy) pieces of furniture that we did bring.

Today we are off to pick our flooring and then to meet an A/C guy at the new house. Also, our Realtor Becca will be coming over to see our progress. I hope that she is amazed!! Now that we are DONE buying houses ... we hope that Becca transsitions from being the "Realtor" to FRIEND!!

Pictures to follow in a later post. Everything from a family vacation to Cabo San Lucas to pics of the house ... All when I get a spare minute!!

TTFN

Closing up the house

We have been doing the last minute things necessary to close the house. We decided to delay our trip a couple days to (hopefully) let the weather that we would be driving thru get past. And since we had some extra time, we decided to go and look at a couple of houses that Larry found on the internet. One of them is wonderful, but who knows?? Today Larry was sick, so we won't leave until Thursday. I dread the drive. And the packing after we arrive!! Oh dear!! I had better start taking my multi-vitamins. :-)

I'm Back!!

After the horrible crash of my old laptop with nothing that could be saved, here I am again with my new laptop and programs. I am ready to try this again!! We are packing up and getting ready to leave W.W. and make the long journey back with the three dogs. Larry is busy fixing up the outside of the house and I am working on the inside. I dread the trip and all the work ahead. But it must be done. Here are pics of the curtains and the wall hanging that I did for Josh & Eden's new home. I will post a couple now and more later, as I am waiting for her pictures. These are the few we had. The top left are the 2 story curtains. The top right are the stacked curtains (yes, curtain hanging on the top window!) with Josh & Larry working hard to complete. The last one is the wall hanging. I really like the way this turned out. Can you see the little buttons in the middle of the circles??

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Madge would like to wish EVERYONE a wonderful Valentine's Day!!

Morning in Weeki Wachee

The sun is rising and the birds are singing. Mist is rising off the pool. It is all so peaceful here.

CURTAIN TIME!!

Least anyone think that it is all fun and games here, check out the curtains that are "in the process." Does anyone know how long it takes to sew a seam that is forty plus feet?