Follow The Brownish/Grayish Brick House

Yay!!  Our house is starting to look pretty!

By pretty, I mean it's getting bricks installed.  Huzzah!  Actually, this photo was taken four days ago so they're a lot further along now.  Double huzzah!

Back of the house (obviously).  You can see blurry scaffolding
on the left side right above the white van.

Because the inside of the house finally is painted, it means that I can get in there and re-paint it.  Beazer Homes paints the entire inside of the house--walls AND ceiling--one color.  Boring!  I want to get it all painted before we move in (and before the flooring gets installed, if possible).  This means some late nights as I can't/won't work there during the day when the construction crew is working.

Saturday night, Nolan and I headed up to Little Elm to get the party started.  In here.  Let's get it started.  In here.

Not painting above the fireplace because that will all be stone.

 Imagine our happy surprise when we saw what had been installed in the kitchen!  Actually, Nolan could care less, but whatever.  He's three so his opinion doesn't count.

Goal:  Do NOT get paint on pretty new cabinets before we've
even officially purchased them.

Pretty cherry-colored 42" cabinets.  Triple huzzah!

 The cabinets have also been installed in the three bathrooms, but I didn't take pictures of them because I was limited by my shop lights and the length of the extension cord.  I think we got them in a different color than the kitchen, but I don't remember.  I do know that the cabinets in the guest bath and Nolan and Sophie's bath are the "normal" height, which is annoyingly low for people who are taller than 5'.

Here's another shot of my our painting handiwork.

I found this super cool color scheme from Sherwin-Williams that dumbs it down for folks like me who have no clue how to mix colors from room to room.  Basically, there's like twenty colors that will all mesh so you can put them all over the house and it will still look harmonious.  Or something hippie-dippie like that.  

I picked up five gallons of "wool skein" to paint as much of the main floor as possible, plus (hopefully) the upstairs loft area.  After we move in, I can paint over it with accent colors.

The plan is to go in a couple more evenings this week and get the main floor finished.  Next time, Tsunami will stay at home with Daddy so I'm not battling a 3-year-old, a bucket of paint, and a not-yet-purchased house.

Nolan in the dining room. He helped by watching movies.
And then he got sick of watching movies, so he helped by
unrolling the brown paper and paper towels and racing his
trucks on them.  And then he got sick of that, so he found some
broken glass and started playing with that.  And then Mommy
got sick of that, so we went home.

Stay tuned for more updates!

PS:  I'm tempted to paint the tray in the living room ceiling.  Not the flat part that's actually the ceiling, but the walls of the tray.  I think it'd be cool to do a bold color that matches an accent wall.  Thoughts?