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Home Sweet Home!

Ethan and I are expert movers.  We pride ourselves on cleaning, unpacking, hanging pictures, setting up utilities, etc. in less than twenty-four hours.

In the new house, we quickly realized we will likely be looking at twenty-four months, best case scenario.  It's hard to unpack toiletries when your bathroom doesn't exist yet.  Or put things in kitchen cabinets that will soon be gone (in the meantime, extra silverware can be found in the cooler next to the oven).

Master Bedroom before - freshly painted, but not my color.

We needed to get one room under control, so, as the only room that will be keeping all of its walls, the Master Bedroom was the winner.  We knew we wanted a dark blue-gray color, so we walked to the paint store and bought two gallons of the second dark blue-gray we saw (because buying the first would be like, crazy impulsive).  Other customers, armed with fabric swabs and decorators, marveled at our decisiveness.  Suckers.

Master Bedroom after - the blue makes the old trim pop!

We painted in one afternoon, and we learned A Major 100+ Year Old House Lesson.  Nothing. Is. Straight.  Nothing.  We got some of those fancy rolling paint edger thingies so we would have very straight, perfect lines between the wall and the ceiling.  These tools are really useful for cutting and edging when your walls and ceiling are smooth and straight.  Guess what.  Ours aren't!  So, we taped the ceiling.

Lessons Learned:

• Our house is complete chaos.  Having one room that is finished is incredibly necessary.  
• Trust your gut and make bold paint choices.
• Eggshell paint adds a fantastic luster.  Irregularities are visible, but I think they call that "character".