So, our move got delayed a bit. We wanted to get into the house last Wednesday the 8th to start priming and painting, but the people who were moving out had some speed bumps. So we didn’t even get a chance to get into the house until we moved everything in Monday the 13th. Andrew and I loaded the truck up at our old place on Saturday and Sunday¹ and Sunday night we got to the new house close to midnight so we just parked the truck and headed over to my aunt’s house to spend the night. Monday we did some cleaning and prepping before moving the furniture in, but it only took Andrew and I a little less than two hours to empty the 24′ truck. Score.

This week we’ve been working on priming Claire’s room, the master bedroom, the master bathroom and the bathroom. Claire’s room has definitely been the hardest. The walls were a light shade of blue but there were bright red hand prints all over the walls and ceilings. Oh, and the trim was bright red. BRIGHT RED. We used a half a 5-gallon jug of primer in there alone, but now everything is pretty and completely white and totally worth it. I’ve been working this week and Andrew has been home priming while the kids are in daycare, but I’ve been going over in the evenings before picking the kids up to try to help. Andrew left last night to go get his car from our old place and should be back tonight, so this whole weekend we can work on knocking out the bedrooms and bathrooms. We still need to put a second coat of primer on in both bathrooms and do a coat of tinted primer in Claire’s room and the master bedroom, then prime Logan’s room and start painting. Once all of that is done we can move the furniture out of our living room and into the bedrooms, then move all of the dining room furniture into the living room so we can prime and paint the dining room/kitchen. Once that is done we need to move all of the dining room and living room furniture into the dining room so we can prime and paint the living room/hallway.

Hopefully by next weekend we will be completely done with all of the painting and our house will have some semblance of order. Sort of. We took down all of the blinds and curtains that were in here and are going to be installing new Levolor cordless blinds and drapery rods. Also, we have an old dresser and nightstand that were Andrew’s when he was a kid that I want to refinish white and put some cute hardware on for Claire’s room. We’re going to put the really-ugly-but-super-comfy-wingback chair in Logan’s room, and I’m just going to pick up a white slipcover from Bed Bath & Beyond and use Rit dye to make it a bright blue. I think that would look awesome with his yellow/green walls. After that I’m seriously taking a break, because come Spring we’re going to be doing a lot of work on the yard.

1. Which took two days because we did a massive amount of cleaning, the property manager told us it was that cleanest apartment on move out she’s ever been in. I don’t like to give anyone any reason to not return my whole deposit. [↩]

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1. Jeannie says:

   February 17, 2012 at 10:35 pm

   i can’t believe you’d paint around your children. That can be terrible for their lungs your adult lungs may not notice it but they’res will. Sad!

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   • Cori says:

     February 20, 2012 at 11:55 am

     Oh no, our kids are in daycare during the day and we stay with my aunt at night. They haven’t even been in the house yet! By tonight we’ll be done painting two of the bedrooms and the bathrooms and letting them air out (we chose paints with no VOC and that helps) by tonight so we can get at least the kids set up in Claire’s room temporarily while we paint Logan’s room and the living room, dining room and kitchen. The kids are fine, but thanks for your concern!

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2. Damita says:

   February 19, 2012 at 8:06 am

   Colours sound fab :)

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   • Cori says:

     February 20, 2012 at 11:56 am

     I can’t wait to post pictures of Claire’s room and the master bedroom, I LOVE THE COLORS! I also can’t wait to see how Logan’s color looks once it goes up.

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I'm Cori

I'm a 23-year-old work-at-home mom to two under two and full-time student. I love pink, football, video games, novels, flats, and Simply Orange with Mango.

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Claire was born January 7^th, 2010. She's spunky and independent and a wee bit crazy. Her favorite color is black and she loves her Teddy.

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