Making progress..

Our second round of virtual house paint photos arrived in the mail yesterday and were quite pleasing. I am not into how the grey house paint scheme looks on our house, especially not after being offered the plethora of paint options. The decision was really between the the red or green (the new green photos were lighter than the previous green ones). The green didn't super wow me, I mean it was nice, ok, safe, and the dark green was masculine. Honestly though, I have never passed a green house and thought wow! Well, except that I do like our painters house that he painted green.....except that I don't ever remember it being green, I remember it as red, or orange...wierd, but he has a nice craftsman green on his house that lends nicely to the yellow windown trim and black window frames. So I think I'm going to go balls to the walls and paint the house RED. I have a pair of curtains in the living room that adore and I have a paint scheme much like them that I am thinking of using. I should add that I also have a green version of those curtains, much the same as my brown ones but in green and I just don't like them that much, they just just ok compared to my lucious brown and red curtains, which is why they are in the downstairs bathroom now-a-days. I am working on matching paint chips at this point, which I will then have the 8x11 large paint chips sent to me (did I mention my painter is awesome), after I like the big paint chips my painter will bring samples to paint on the house for me to ensure I totally like what I have.

Red for the body

Lighter Yellow for the soffit, facia, widows, middle of porch posts, balastraudes

Darker Yellow for the porch rails, the tops and bottoms of porch posts, all crown, trim above the porch



Grey/Greenish Taupe for the doors, gingerbread brackets, porch swing
Dark Brown for the existing roof and front porch floor

Dun Dun Dunnnnnn

We got our sample photos for the house painting in the mail with examples of paint schemes. 15 different schemes to be exact! Holy crap, I almost fell over when going through the photos. I am doubting my original paint scheme now and am a little overwhelmed. We had another meeting with the contractor today to explain what we did and did not like about certain schemes and had four schemes out of the 15 that we wanted him to tweak a little to see if we liked them any better. We should get those in about a week. The contractor reassured me that if we need to do a third round of schemes and tweaking it would be fine and we have plenty of time to work it out. Apparently choosing the contractor and writing the check for the deposit was the easy part, lol.

On and on..

1. Last week we got a new doorbell, woohoo, looks like one I saw in the Restoration Hardware catalog.

2. Wednesday we had Country Carpentry out to do some..carpentry work. Rebuilt the two porch posts at the base of the front porch, and the ones on the back porch, replaced some rotten fascia and soffit on the back porch, patched some aluminum siding and repaired a window sill. They did great work and we are having them come out and replace the flat roof on the back of house which is apparently well past the funtional life, not to mention not properly flashed, bahhhh!

3. Last Monday we signed our painting contract with the dude we really like. He is now working on the color virtualization, picking a few color schemes to show me, sooooo excited, he really has an eye for color. We should have those in a couple of weeks. He says the painting itself should take about 3 weeks to do. It is a lot of work, painting all the fascia, soffit, siding, reglazing the windows, painting the windows, doors, gutters and all the porch trim. Holy crappola, I'm just glad that I am not doing it. They will be using an articulated lift to reach the gables since they are so high. Painting should start around the end of July.




4. This past week I received my  results from the blood work I had done a couple of weeks ago. I've been taking an over the counter supplement that I have read in multiple medical journals is suppose to help treat my PCOS, it loosely related to vitamin B but not really, it is something our bodies make ourselves. Anyway I had my Dr. draw my testosterone levels and cholesterol levels, since both levels have to do with PCOS and were both elevated last year. After taking the supplement I've been taking for three months my testosterone levels fell by 53%, which means they are no longer elevated (and are well within the normal range) AND my cholesterol levels also decreased and are now within the normal range. Yay for finding my over the counter solution that has no side effects and works amazingly well!

5. Last week we took a little trip to visit Grandma Helen and Grandpa Lee and spent the afternoon with them. Makenna has lots of fun, including going to the park and getting some icecream. This weekend we met up with some friends and their kids to go to the American museum, then mexican, then the park and had some icecream. We were worn out by the end of the day!

1. I am craving lemon poppyseed cupcakes like crazzzzy. I have really been feeling lemon lately, warm summer is what is causing it. LEMOOOON
2. I have a recipe for a blueberry cake that looks really yummy, I have a coupon for blueberries so maybe I'll make it this week.
3. Last week was crazy. Makenna had a doctor appointment for a physical, I had a doctor appointment and we were getting estimates for exterior house work. We are suppose to meet with the first contractor again tonight, to go over a few things.
4. I am reading two books I am enjoying right now, one is a psychology book and the other is about consumerism.
5. I am about 95% over my cold now, yay!