Day 3...down

Wow, wow, and wow again.  I cannot even begin to describe the level of filth that covered this house.  Now I totally understand the concept of "we're moving anyway so why clean" but these people had a small child and 4 animals...you can't just not clean for two months!!! It took my mom and me 3 full days to clean and tape the house to be painted.  It was slightly longer than I had anticipated, and let me tell you...I am absolutely sick of cleaning.

Needless to say I am grateful and relieved that Orchid is now clean from head to toe, and we can move onto the painting.  I picked a lovely "pecan sandie" as my base wall color throughout the whole house, and a beautiful "smokey blue" for my accent wall in the great room/kitchen/dining room.  Today the focus will be getting any carpeted rooms and the laundry room painted, because APPLIANCES ARE COMING TODAY! I cannot wait to see how the black looks in the kitchen after being painted!

My mom (being how she is) wanted to replace the blinds in the house because she couldn't stand the color that was already there, and wanted to put in white wooden blinds.  Thankfully, because my mother is wonderful, she offered to pay for them...and lemme tell you, it totally transformed the look of the house!  I am very grateful for her wonderful taste...

Goal for today: paint and get appliances!  Tomorrow: tackling the horrendous backyard...

DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: a picture of something you are afraid of...

Spiders. I'm creeped out just looking at it...