light fixtures and master bedroom.

hello again!

i am sorry there hasn't been a new post as soon as i said there would be! hopefully you'll forgive us - we've been a little busy.

ashton was in kansas last week for work, so before he left, i asked him to install the fans in the living room and bedroom. i'm not a fan of dark, and i'm certainly not a fan of dark in a house when i'm alone. well, super-achiever that he is, he installed the fans in the living room, master bedroom, and guest bedroom, as well as the light fixture in our dining room. (isn't he great?) here are some pics of him and our new lights. :)

(also, mom - that's the ledge i was talking about in the dining room.)

i also decided that i wanted to paint the master bedroom while he was gone. i think ashton was a little bit nervous about this (i tend to get paint everywhere - floor, ceiling, and in this instance - our sheets), but he humored me and off we went to pick out our new room color.

if you will remember, the bedroom was originally painted a really dark grayish blue. 

we bought our primer to cover up the blue, and we chose a green for our new color. on saturday (ashton's last full day before he left for kansas), we taped off about half of the floor and ceiling and started putting primer on the wall. we also painted one wall with the green that we had chosen to see what we thought and... ended up deciding to change to a green that was a little bit darker. 

some little primer elves decided to do a little priming themselves. i'm just impressed that they managed to paint that close to ashton without him noticing.

so on sunday, i finished taping and priming the rest of the room, and then because i was feeling so productive, went ahead and painted two of the walls. i finished the last two walls on monday. when ashton got home, we painted the door, windowsills, and trim. i'm just going to throw this out there... our paint job looks pretty good. 

after a few trips to target looking for two more panels to match the curtains we had in our old room, (which i finally found in separate trips, of course), and installing new curtain rods, our bedroom is pretty much finished. we still have a few blank walls, but we don't have anything picked out to go up there yet, so they'll just have to hang out until we get some good ideas. 

don't mind that trash on the chair. ;-)

a perfect example of one of the blank walls i was referring to. also, i have no idea what that white dot is on the wall in this picture. i promise it's not like that on the actual wall.

projects in our near future:

• paint cabinets in kitchen - should be happening this weekend. we both have monday off, so hopefully we'll get a lot done!
• paint master bathroom.

that's all i have for now! i'll post pics again once the cabinets are done. i'm soo excited about those getting painted, just not as excited about actually painting them. :)

anne