Paint day

Saturday was the day of much much painting. My goal for the day was to have all three bedrooms painted so that they would have a week to air out before we moved ourselves and the animals into the house.
It was also the day to drop off my chinchilla at my parent's house for the week. She does not like strangers or commotion so it will be easier on her to not be in our apartment when the movers come this weekend. I got her situated and then we headed over to my house to paint.



We started with the master bedroom. The paint we had picked out for the room was a very light grey color to give some color to the room without making it too dark. The room is only 12' by 12' so we definitely don't want to make the room appear smaller.
Dad taped off the room, I grabbed the edger, and mom went at it with the paint roller. The paint went on a little bit bluer than I had originally planned but as it covered more of the room it evened out. When it was finished I was completely in love with our bedroom. It was light and fresh and calming all at once. I love it and couldn't wait to show Scott.




Next up was the chinchilla room which will also double as my sewing room. The color for that room was named Honey Sand. Mom put the first roll on the wall and we both looked at it and thought "um...this one may be changing". It was still a neutral beige color but a slightly different color than the current wall color, so it cast a very weird shadow. Alright, let's finish and see how it looks. Once again, I'm in love. The color is this beautiful warm honey color and brightened up the room immensely. It was a beautiful neutral pallete for a room that will be filled with colorful fabrics and various sewing patterns.



Due to a lack of rollers (and a frustrated father who needed to make a Home Depot run) we decided to give the kitchen a spin. The strange pea..camo green was going away, and a beautiful bright blue was taking its place. We also tried painting the top the same Honey Sand to give above the cabinets a bit of a neutral color, as the dining room was also going to be a dark blue. We will see how that turns out after being in the space for a while.




Last but not least, the nursery/guest room. We went with a blue-green color which I was very happy with. It made the room bright and cheerful without being too Easter egg pastel or over-powering.

A very long Saturday, but a very good one.

Home ownership is exhausting!

Well, it has certainly been one exciting weekend!

We started off the weekend with a bang by buying our first house. Scott could not sleep at all the night before, and I was up with the sun out of pure excitement. We drove to Leesburg and arrived at Monarch Settlement to go sign the paperwork. Rebecca had been our main point of contact and she was absolutely amazing, so it was really good to meet her in person for the first time.
Our Realtors arrived and Chuck handed me our new house key. Well then, let's just skip the paperwork and go paint ;) Ok, we'll do the paperwork. After a ton of signatures, and two tons of initials we were through. I think all in all the closing took about 25 minutes. I guess there's a plus to purchasing a foreclosure home, there is no seller at the table!
Our loan officer Brad also came in about halfway through the process. He has been a huge help through this whole process and a definite sanity saver. Our Realtor, loan officer and closing attorney all worked with each other on a regular basis, so it gave our closing a very relaxed and fun mood, which I loved. It was equal part "signing your life away" and "have fun with your friends."
Really, they have become good friends, as hard as that may be to believe. We have been looking at houses for so long that it will be very strange to go for a month or more without talking to our Realtor, but I'll find a way to manage.

After the closing we went straight back to the house and just reveled in the fact that it was ours! It didn't feel like ours yet, it felt like we were just doing another inspection or another walk through. It was similar to the feeling I had the morning after the wedding. You know you just made a huge change in your life, but it hasn't really sunk in yet.

We then picked up my mom and went to grab paint, and a flag to hang by the front door. We have a house!!

Night before closing

Hurray! Tomorrow is the big day! In less than 15 hours we will be signing our lives away and officially have a house. This weekend is packed too.
Tomorrow morning we close on the house, then have to get the water turned on and purchase the paint we want.
Saturday I'm going to the house with my friend and parents (Scott has to work) to paint. We have to get the three bedrooms painted and possibly part of the living room as there will be furniture put into those rooms that we cannot move at a later date to paint around.
Sunday we are getting a Budget truck to start collecting loose items. We have a couch and a bunch of garage items coming from Scott's sister's house, a dining room table we are purchasing from my boss, and my fish tank equipment.

This will definitely not be a weekend of resting, but that is just fine by me :)

I will try to get pictures up as we go about the painting process.

Spring has sprung

Hurray it is so beautiful outside!
The cherry trees outside of our apartment have hit full blossom, and they are so gorgeous. It also made me a bit sad to have to leave them behind. Well, we will just have to plant a cherry tree at our new house and we will have the beautiful flowers again.
Today I went out to lunch with my husband, sister-in-law, her daughter, and my mother-in-law. We went to a little inn and restaurant, the same place we went for my wedding rehearsal dinner almost a year ago. It is truly a magnificent restaurant and is true to Winchester style. You walk in and are greeted by the kids of the house, probably 12 and 10 who figure out where to seat you, then are led to your seat by the 16ish year old hostess. Only in Winchester. The food there is absolutely divine, and only $30 for appetizers, 4 sides, an entree, and desert.

Then we drove by our new house so that his family could see the outside of it and we walked around the yard. Our backyard has its own flowering tree and the side of the house is lined with Irises that are a few weeks away from blooming. The sun hits the yard perfectly and we all just stood on the deck imagining how it will look once we get the yard to its full glory.