Finished Painting!

Ah, we are finally done painting! It is the best feeling in the world :) My goal was to be done by July 4th and we finished on July 2nd. We hosted a party here on the 4th and had a great time...more about that another day. Anyway, I wanted to get the last bathroom pictures up before I start working on posting 4th of July pictures. So here it is...the green bathroom :)




The shower curtain is a bluish color...kind of hard to see in this picture because of the lighting.





Next pictures will be of our 4th of July bash and the two bedrooms that we painted upstairs!

Brothers

Today we spent some time with my brother Jon. We drove to Winner, SD to obtain some awesome fireworks for our 4th of July party. For those that don't know, my brother Jon is a Marine and just recently returned home on his final leave time before he separates from the Marine Corps. I am awfully proud of him and SO happy to have him home again. Anyway, George and Jon never really had a chance to get to know each other before George and I got married so they've been spending some time together getting to know each other and get along quite well! So, we drove to Winner and bought fireworks.

While in Winner we also spent quite a bit of time trying to find Valspar paint so that I can hopefully finish our painting project this week...two rooms to go yet! Our local hardware store burnt down earlier this summer right in the middle of our painting so while they are rebuilding, we have to find a different place to get our paint! Anyway, all of that to say today was a really fun day. I even shot a .45 for the first time (Jon came up so he and George could target practice for awhile this evening). Having Jon and Rob (my other younger brother) around the place makes life a bit more fun! We wish my older brother Jesse and his wife Lindsay lived closer but sadly they don't :(

Anyway, thought I would post some more pictures of our house. These are the promised pictures of the living room/kitchen. The red wall is the shared wall for the two rooms. All of the others are the "bran muffin" color and are the living room walls.




Those letters were NOT easy to put up (and get them straight)! In the end I suppose it was worth it!





This collage of pictures is made up of pictures from the trip we took last summer (the one we got engaged on). There are some really great pictures and memories :) We are hoping to add one more picture to the collage so I guess technically the wall isn't done yet. This wall is actually a darker red...the light from the window kind of makes it look brighter than it really is.




Anyway, we are pretty pleased with how it turned out! And the couch covers were a MUCH needed update to the pink floral couches that lie beneath :)

Painting...

We've done a LOT of painting since moving into our new home in November. We worked first on the kitchen and living room and have now completed the upstairs bathrooms and laundry room. By the time we're done, we will have painted every room on the main floor. Anyway, here are pictures of the "orange" bathroom that is connected to the laundry room. George picked this color to go with the yellow, tan, and orange towels. It is bright and at first I wasn't sure but I'm loving it now :)

The shower curtain is off-white with different colored threads going through it (blue, red, green, orange, yellow, etc.)




I used my veto power on painting the laundry room orange. We have a color called "bran muffin" that is the common thread through the top floor. The laundry room is therefore a tan color instead of the bright orange!




I will post pictures of the other bathroom and the living room (which is finally finished with pictures up and everything) soon!