Our House Is Now A Home

Yesterday was a glorious day at our house. Well, until I realized that Nate and I now had to un-pack and put away everything....

Oh yeah, I finished painting the living room too. And hung curtains. I keep you all so informed.

 Eventually we got 'er all out and the big things are put away. EVERYTHING was dirty. Everything. It all got a good wipe down before I moved onto the kitchen...

Our kitchen is now maneuverable as well. :)
Oh, and we have our bed again. It's about a million feet high....Kidding, only about three feet.

The only casualty in the move was our washer. It's hard to describe what happened, but essentially, it's not going to work anytime soon. So Nate and I ventured out to Lowe's and bought this washer and this dryer. They arrive Monday. Just in time for me to wash alllllllllll the laundry we have. The pile makes me cry a little inside. It's our regular laundry from the last 2-ish weeks, plus all of Nate's clothing and uniforms that arrived from Korea on Tuesday, and also our bedding, linens, and some clothes that I had in storage. Minus the shoes, the pile now looks like this...

I spy a puppy butt.

I want my mommy.

Besides that, the living room now looks like this:

Except the large stack of boxes, those are gone now too. Grey's Anatomy is still on the TV however.

And my last update is that I officially start my new job tomorrow. I'm not so much excited about the work as I am to have a reason to leave the house.

You are all so jealous of my exciting life, I know.

The Time We Almost Had A Bed

Due to our still glaring lack of furniture, (today marks the start of week 4 of waiting) Nate and I managed to get a few things accomplished. 

I ventured out to Lowe's a picked up 2 cheap planters and some Petunias to put up front. My dad always called me Petunia, so they are kinda special to me. I also happened to stumble on some in my favorite color, yellow, which put an even bigger smile on my face.

Now if only housing would let me dig my hands into  all that space along the house....

Love them!

Planting some flowers put me in worker bee mode, because a few hours later I was back at Lowe's (this time with Nate in tow) getting paint. I wanted to get the living room done before our furniture arrived, but my step stool is with our furniture....so for now, our living room looks like this...

Gotta love being short.

The color is Rockport Grey by Benjamin Moore color matched by Valspar. I had stumbled across this color on Pinterest a few times, then again on a blog I love to read, Young House Love. It's such a rich, moody color, and it looks great no matter how the light hits it. I think it will look nice with our brown/tan couch and the tan-ish curtains you see wadded up in the middle of the floor. I'm planning on using it in our master bedroom as well.

And speaking of bedrooms....

I finally got around to staining the wood for our bed frame. I then proceeded to give Nate a sad face until he put it together. You also get a peek at one of our dressers. I want to paint both of them. I might actually get around to it someday. Maybe.

 If you are nosy like me and like to see other people houses I'll humor you. Here is the mess that is the other side of the master.

Yikes.

So now it's Monday. Nate has work and I'm going to stare at my phone waiting for Nate to call and tell me the furniture guys are here.

Kidding, I'm probably going to take a nap. Gotta get rested up for when our stuff does get here. I have 3 weeks worth of laundry to do. yaaaaay.