Weekend Update

I was supposed to have our girl scout troop overnight tonight, but both of my girls are sick--fever, sniffles, sore throats, coughing and sneezing. Plus, our house was turned up-side-down and not made right-side-up until too late to have company.

Yes, we started with just scraping the acoustic material off our ceilings. I had planned to paint the girls' bedroom anyway, and when the ceilings were done, our family room, without the furniture in it, demanded some emergency attention. So we got paint, and paid the ceiling painters to paint the walls in that room. They had erred in the front room, by painting not just the ceiling, but half the walls (they painted from 6" to 18" down the side of the wall instead of just painting the ceiling).

So, we had them color match Benjamin Moore's "Popcorn Kernel" (a nice soft yellow) and they painted our front room too.

So a job that was to be finished over a week ago, got finished today. Plus, since we didn't have the sleepover tonight, we decided to have some other work done, too. We'll get canned lights in the family room, plus a canned light in the entry hall, new baseboard molding and the entry closet door repainted. The entry will be painted too, sort of a mix in colors of our family room and the other hallway.

Our family room is a shocker. I was so sick of Navajo that I picked a deep pumpkin color. It's called "Apricot Glow" and is much brighter than the paint chip indicated, but we love it. Scott even loves it. The cherry furniture and our old brick fireplace just brightened and looked new again. It's so beautiful and intense...I can't wait to decorate in a sort of Jamaican theme, with our masks, some silk palms, and our sofa that has palm leaves all over it. We have white trim--a Swiss Coffee--and accents of deep cherry brown that accidentally perfectly matches our home theatre cabinet.

I can't wait till the house is all back together. Sarah and Em both have camps next week (Sarah goes to an aquatics camp and Em to a gymnastics camp), so I'll have time alone in my house during the day!! It will feel as if they are both in school full time! That's when I plan to search and either destroy, dismantle, or donate 50% of our household so that our home looks peaceful and nice again.