It’s true…my iPhone takes terrible pictures.  I sometimes feel like it’s mocking me, telling me I’ll never get a good one.  But this weekend was incredibly productive, and I wanted to document it all without risking getting paint or dust or paint stripper on the nice camera.  So here goes.  My weekend through the fuzzy lens…

I was beyond thrilled to see that there is NO MORE CARPET in our house!! I even created a hashtag in Instagram to share my joy.  Even more exciting was how awesome the floors underneath looked!

Next, we tested out a couple of paint samples for the kitchen.  We had decided that we wanted to go with gray, but we weren’t sure how dark.

Luckily, many of you chimed in and helped us decide on the one we were leaning towards…the lighter! 

Then we took a mega trip to Lowe’s and spent the next two and a half hours picking out all of our bathroom finishes.  Yep, we were those people walking around writing down part numbers and getting in everyone’s way.  Oh well, we were super successful in picking everything out.  Here’s a sneak peek of the floor tile and shower tile we picked for the master bathroom.

After a little community service project, we headed back over to the house Saturday night so Charles could install a light kit for the ceiling fan in the kitchen (that we feel sure has not been cleaned in 10 years…gross).  I’m so happy to have such a handy husband! :)

While I was there, I decided to start working on getting the kitchen cabinet doors off.  (PS- it was my first real experience with power tools, and I’m hooked.  This could be bad.)  Then Michael and Mary came over and we decided to have a little impromptu reno party.

We even ordered pizza and had our first official meal in the house!! Luckily, we had lots of air duct boxes to serve as a table.  Of course I had to document this first meal.

Sunday, we put in a full day at the house.  We owe HUGE thank you’s (and probably several drinks) to Michael and Mary!  We never would have been so efficient without those two!! We’re very blessed to have such wonderful friends that we can also call family.

Mary worked on painting the cabinet doors for the kitchen, Michael worked on pulling up the kitchen floor, Charles worked on stripping the pocket doors, and I worked on painting the kitchen.  It was a well-oiled machine, especially with Pandora’s 90’s Pop station playing!

Like I said, the picture quality is awful.  But at least we have some memories!

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