Listing photos are the Facebook profile photos of the real estate world. Angles, cropping, and best of the best. I took the "before" pictures on the day of my closing after everything was moved out. The after photos speak for themselves.
There are so many other projects I'm excited to begin, but with paint, foundation, and floors complete, I was able to officially move-in!
My mom is the family paint specialist. Unfortunately she doesn't live here, and we had a tight time frame. My awesome realtor, Erica Gannon, suggested a paint specialist which she used in her own home. Sherwin-Williams has a program where you pay $100 ($50 of which is a credit to buy paint), and a specialist comes out and helps you choose colors.
I take pride in my color selections. I mean, I took an online test once which said I had perfect color vision, so you be the judge. Abby Trace came to the house and spent an hour and a half swiveling open a paint deck like a blackjack dealer and talking about color spectrum. She knew what she was doing, and that is likely the best $50 I ever spent. Below are the interior colors we settled on. On the Rocks being the most prominent going in the living, dining, kitchen, and hallway.
There are so many other projects I'm excited to begin, but with paint, foundation, and floors complete, I was able to officially move-in!
My mom is the family paint specialist. Unfortunately she doesn't live here, and we had a tight time frame. My awesome realtor, Erica Gannon, suggested a paint specialist which she used in her own home. Sherwin-Williams has a program where you pay $100 ($50 of which is a credit to buy paint), and a specialist comes out and helps you choose colors.
I take pride in my color selections. I mean, I took an online test once which said I had perfect color vision, so you be the judge. Abby Trace came to the house and spent an hour and a half swiveling open a paint deck like a blackjack dealer and talking about color spectrum. She knew what she was doing, and that is likely the best $50 I ever spent. Below are the interior colors we settled on. On the Rocks being the most prominent going in the living, dining, kitchen, and hallway.
She also helped me finalize my exterior colors, so I'm pretty stoked to get that underway. The exterior is wood siding. The bad news is that it was never primed when it was originally painted, so that means I need to have it completely sanded, primed, then painted. It goes on the list.
The floors. Oh, the floors. I knew this would be my favorite part, but I still wasn't ready.
Y'ALL, LOOK AT THESE FLOORS.
A little background on these beauts. The house has Oak floors throughout with the exception of the dining room and one closet which is Pine. You can read about the difference of how these absorb stain, their durability, etc. on a million sites. So let me save you the boring stuff and tell you that they don't react to stain the same way. I had to go with two different colors (one for Oak and one for Pine) to get them to match. I'd say these are pretty darn close!
Also, I went with three coats of polyurethane because of my pup. I now know way too much about hardwood floor refinishing, and I wonder what my brain decided to forget in order to make room for it.
Also, I went with three coats of polyurethane because of my pup. I now know way too much about hardwood floor refinishing, and I wonder what my brain decided to forget in order to make room for it.
Side note: wood floor refinishing leaves a layer of sawdust EVERYWHERE. There was a layer of orange dust on everything, including the walls which were freshly painted. I tried a few things to get them off my walls until I settled on the ultimate winner: Swiffer dry floor refills. They worked wonders. That being said, the painter will still be returning to do touch-ups. In a perfect world, the order would have went: leveling, floors, interior paint. But when you're under a time constraint, you work with what you have :)
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