Decisions, Decisions....

And regreting decisions and making new decisions... story of our house! Better now than when we are moved in, right?

Well, I have made Craig redo an entire archway (a whole night's work), rehang a wall of cabinets to make them look level, we painted our kitchen twice because we didn't like that color we picked after it was on the walls for a week, and now we are repainting the laundry room because we don't like the color we originally chose. We spent too many weekends and weeknights away from the house because "we have three months til we need to move in..." or "thats not something that needs to get done right away..." WRONG! We are now 10 days away from our wedding (move in day) and our house still needs quite a bit of work! We waited too long to put the kitchen cabinets back in and we finally agreed to just do a laminate countertop for the kitchen, which will probably not be ready for another 3-4 weeks! SOOO I have excepted the fact that no, our house will not be "done" by the time we move in. And I am ok with it! Or trying to be ok with it. I keep thinking how nice it would be to move into a "new" (120 years old new) house, all clean and ready for me to decorate! Well, it just isn't going to happen.

I have no pictures for the post today, but I will post some pics by the end of the week. The cabinets are in and look great, for being old cabinets. The kitchen tile looks awesome, and the new wall color "hint of gold" is waaaaayyy more appealing than the original "lemon drops" we picked. In 3-4 weeks we will have a countertop and a sink and a new faucet, so you'll have to wait for that post. Thursday I will be repainting the laundry room with the help of my sis Miranda. To avoid any additional costs, we are using leftover paint from the master bedroom. It is our favorite color in the whole house and we have 2 extra gallons- so why not? We are also using leftover tile from the kitchen floor and tiling the laundry room. This way, Craig won't waste a whole night scraping the old paint off the floor. We had planned to put epoxy paint down with the colored chips, but since we have the tile leftover we are going to put it to use. Also avoiding additional costs. The only thing we have to figure out is what we will do with the cellar door, it might just have to be a little bit lower than the rest of the room unless we put some kind of lightweight board down on top of it and paint it to match the tile. We'll see!

Our current to-do list is 19 items long. It would be AMAZING if that could all get done in one weekend. But that would be impossible. I am hoping for Thanksgiving! Just in time for decorating for Christmas. I like to decorate around Veteran's Day for Christmas, but Craig thinks I need to wait longer. We'll see about that!