The House Remodel Saga

When I sat down to start my blog posts for the week, I thought that really all I had were more photos of the updates on the house.  That does seem to fill most moments of our days.  Workmen coming and going, asking questions, making decisions, working around the mess of it all, while trying to live life.  We are doing okay with it all, but it seems to really consume our days at the moment.  My hope and prayer for it all is that we create a space for our family and friends to feel welcome and happy; where we can build many memories as we have in the past; and that it will meet our needs for the rest of our lives (or at least for as long as we need it, too.)  I love this house and I am glad that we are able to clean it up, make a few changes, and be here for the next phase of our lives.

This week of updates:

They removed our railing and put in a new cherry railing.  Our past railing was a bit shorter than current code so we decided to make the switch even though we liked our old one.  The new one is similar except made with cherry wood instead of a pine and even more simple than our first one which I also like.

It has been covered most of the week, because the painters started working on part of the house this week as well.

There are very few changes in our actually interior paint colors.  I have loved them for the past 15 years and want to keep them pretty close to the same.  Jena is changing her room to a more standard medium blue which is the color of the walls in the Bentonville Temple which is why she picked it.  Gary liked his "plastic bag" style of paint job on his office walls, but it has damaged areas and needs to be repainted.  I am not exactly sure how I did it the first time, so it will be white for the time being.  The living room (or library, as Gary calls it now, is being switched from a gold two toned style to a light yellow.  I have had a light yellow on the entry and the hallways, but decided that to tie the house together "cleaner" to change those back to white to match the kitchen/TV room, etc.  I made that decision at the very last minute when the painter walked through the house with me. Wish me luck!! The idea is that the white contrasts and highlights the greens, yellows, and blues throughout the rest of the house.

I loved how they wrapped the canned lights for the painting.

Gary's office

Our library wall is perfect!  I can't wait to fill it up with books and other meaningful things.

So they actually painted the library walls with the new yellow.  Since this was taken at night, it was hard to get the actually color.  But yellow makes me happy and I hope this room