Welcome to the Funny Farm

We have to pick a color for the front door. After some googling about feng shui, I found a great list of door colors on House Beautiful .  I really liked Evening Sky (BM 833).  I researched further and found the meaning of a blue door . Although our door doesn't face south, north or east, I really like the thought of a blue door, especially with our stream and the blue dining room. I think the door will tie it all in together. 

We researched thoroughly which appliances to get.... Consumer reports, looking online, going to stores.  I pretty much had decided on which ones ahead of time, but wanted to give them a once over before we bought.  Thank goodness I did.  The dishwasher I had picked out had the silverware tray on the door. (Egad!  The horror!)  Luckily, we saw that in time and were able to pick out another one.  (big sigh of relief)  One of these days I'm going to save my nickels and buy one of those double dishwashers.  So efficient, convenient and as cool as a dishwasher can get.  I am very excited for my new stove.  It is gas, BUT, the cooktop is ceramic glass!  GE Profile (PGS968SEPSS) You just wipe it down!!! How many of you are excited?!  (and reading this....) We also got a matching microwave.   See how the curve of the glass matches the stove? Fridge is a Whirlpool Gold (GX5FHTXV) with an interior water dispenser and an...

kitchen cabinets, island and walls (painted BM stone house) Main Bath, white cabinets, slate floors and paint (BM silver sage) DECK!!!

We had the floors done in the bathrooms. The main bath upstairs has a slate floor, and the master bath has stone floors. The look fantastic! We got the tile from a warehouse in Bridgeport, Lima Ceramic Tile.    Main Bath: Slate in Montauk Blue Main bath tub and linen closet. master bath stone floor and shower master bath spa tub and stone floor/tile around tub

We ordered most of our fixtures from Lightingdirect.com, but for the exterior ones, we just went down to the local Home Depot.  We decided to get a lamppost outside and the post comes with an outlet (for Christmas Lights or tools) and a sensor that turns the lights on from dusk to dawn.  Hampton Bay Aged Iron Post Lantern Y37031-151 The lights that will frame the front door will be the same style.  I think they're so cute!  We also got outdoor motion lights for the front and regular spots for the back.  No pics of those, because they're your typical spot lights, nothing special. Hampton Bay Aged Iron Wall Lantern Y37029-151 We also received our shipment with the ceiling fan and the closet lights.  The closet lights we got for $8 each!  They have 2 bulbs so they'll give plenty of light.  In order to get them so cheap, we had to be flexible on the color.  They're "Copper Revival" which is actually a little more copper penny colored than...

So we locked in our mortgage rate at the same time keeping fingers crossed that rates do go up and not down, to reassure we made the right decision.  We dropped off the fixtures at the house last weekend, and saw the new stone floors (pics posted soon) in the bathrooms.  The trims are almost all done and we have garage doors!  The front stairs also have the railing installed.  We picked out paint colors thanks to bossycolorblog!  It was so helpful. Once we get colors painted, I'll post pictures of those as well. Job wise I have had 2 demo lessons at a middle school, a phone interview at a university, another upcoming demo lesson and an interview, I'm hoping to have a bidding war and I get tons and tons of money! (a girl's gotta dream!)  Hopefully by the end of the month I will have the job thing settled. That would definitely alleviate one of the unknowns.   If not, I have to save my pennies so I can commute and pay tolls to work.  I am not look...

Picked out countertop for the kitchen.  Brazilian Mahogany Granite.  I think it will really go well with the peppercorn island and the canvas (w/ cocoa glaze) cabinets.