New Color in Living and Dining Room

 After living here for 8 years, the paint in the living room and dining room needed an update with fresh paint and a new color.

Watching Fixer Upper got me hooked on farmhouse ideas so I went in search of the perfect farmhouse gray color. I settled on Behr Grey Mist from Home Depot. I loved the primer included! True to it's description, it only took one coat! I used one gallon per room!

I took the pictures as I hung decorations. I'm not great at staging so please pardon the mess!

Exterior Paint!

 

FINALLY! When the COVID pandemic began, we decided what a great time to get the house painted! Kevin found Lain's Painting. Billy is a one man band and very diligent. He spent a week painting and it is very well done!

Although our house is not a Craftsman, I wanted to stick with the style of the early 20th century. Three muted colors. 

On a road-trip to historic Jefferson, TX we came across a Craftsman with similar colors and fell in love. In addition, our colors are very different from the rest of the neighborhood. Most houses are beiges, grays, and blues.

To recall the before pictures, check the first post, In the beginning . . .

Foundation Work on the House

We are ready to do some serious renovating/remodeling in the kitchen and bathroom. Now that we are empty-nesters, it not only gives us something to do but will not be hard to accomplish since it's just inconveniencing us. 

August 5,2019 work began and took the foundation crew about a week to get it done, lots and lots of digging in one of hottest months of the year! If I recall there was a 7 inch difference from front to back on the west side of the house!

Below in the pictures, you can see how much dirt was removed from under the house. It had probably never been leveled in the past and there was almost a 100 years of dirt accumulated underneath. Our contractor originally said it was not a pier and beam because there was not a crawl space. After the dirt was out, he had a change of mind and said it is a pier and beam but so much dirt had built up, who knew!!

There would be a chain of guys under the house passing the dirt!

Lots and Lots of Dirt!!

And then Kevin decided we needed to keep the dirt! What?!?

Lydia teaching the dogs how much fun they can have playing King of Mountain!

Last two pictures show how much fun two dogs can have chasing each other around on mounds of dirt.
Titus, Boston Terrier in first picture, is the King!
Duckie running so fast she is blur like the Flash!