Getting very close to moving day...

Moving day is Saturday, July 17th. Yikes. And I am in Nashville so there is not a lot that will get done this week. However, we got a TON done over the last week and a half. You can hardly recognize the house.

On July 4th, Michael hung a flag outside the house, which looks great. Very patriotic.




Over last weekend, we stripped the ceilings in both the dining room and the middle bedroom and painted them. Now they look much better. We also finished painting the dining room and the middle bedroom, and even though Michael did not want any colors, I felt that those two rooms needed it because they tend to stay darker than the other rooms. And I felt like two out of 6 or 7 rooms was not too bad... I think they turned out very cute.

Dining room:

Bedroom:

We have really been pushing to get the bathroom done since obviously we cannot live in the house without a bathroom. We finished the beadboard and got it painted and it turned out very nice. Then we put in the toilet and the vanity.

We added these panels to the window to make it look like textured glass. I am pretty excited about it because I think it looks really cool.

My dad came over this past weekend to help out, too. He spent all day Saturday on the shower, even crawling under the house several times. Thank goodness, though, because we now have a workable shower.

Michael put up a new chair rail and we got it painted so the bathroom turned out really cute.

My dad also helped out with the closets. There is only one closet in the house with the capacity to hang clothes so he put a new rod and shelf in that one.

The other closet is not deep enough for hangers, so we put shelves in it for storage.

Since one closet is not enough space for my massive wardrobe, we had to get creative. We took the back bedroom and put panels in the middle and clothes racks on the other side. Now there is plenty of room for hanging clothes.

The other half of the room will be used for office space. I bought a new desk this week to use.

On Saturday, we inherited a china hutch which looks pretty nice in our yellow dining room. The table should be coming soon.

All in all, everything is coming along very nicely. The two big projects left are the kitchen and the laundry/pantry area. The electrician should be coming at the beginning of next week so that hopefully I will be able to dry my hair in the bathroom and make my coffee in the morning. Hopefully, everything turns out all right.

Holly is definitely excited about her new home. She loves running around in her new backyard and playing the piano.

Will update after we move everything in. Hope everything fits!