Big Day

After a loooong drive with the dog in the back and a Uhaul behind the car, I made it to Louisville!  Sadly, I had to leave the dog in a kennel and our stuff in the storage unit still, but only for a little longer, and then we can actually move in.

To that end, today is a big day, since I am meeting with the electrician, plumber, drywall guy, etcetera, to get some estimates on a few things we'd like to have done to the house.  For a house that I famously said you could move right into (if you had to), you wouldn't believe how long my list is!  But I'm ready to prioritize, and Jady and I are also prepared to do some-- or even a lot-- of the work ourselves.

One thing we are definitely not doing ourselves is sanding our ceilings.  All over the place in our house we have these textured, fan shaped patterned ceilings that aren't too noticeable when the lights are dim.  But ours are for some reason particularly deeply textured and shiny, so when the sun shines in or your lights are turned up to a normal level, it's all you can see.  

Fan patterned ceiling purists will gasp, but Jady and I agreed-- it has to go.  Another project (one that we'll most likely be tackling ourselves to save money) is that we've decided to install lots of molding, including crown molding, which will only add more attention to the ceilings.  Smoothing out the textured ceilings will really help to get the clean look we're going for.

It's going to be messy!  Can you imagine?  Everywhere in the house... So hopefully they'll tell me today that they can do it the moment we sign the paperwork and before we move anything in.

xo

Liza