Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

We are moving!
After various events this summer and a great opportunity becoming available, Ken and I decided to move our troop out to Washington! It is hard to leave the home and community I anticipated us to be for a long time and uproot.
Fortunately, the impedending move and (hopefully) home sale gave us motivation to do some house projects. Which I love!

I've hated this red since we moved in, but Ken loved it so it just stuck for a while.

It was just too dark for a room with one small window.

Lucky for me, I have some awesome friends who came over and painted with me while Ken was gone on a business trip.

This is what I found under the stove. GROSS, GROSS, GROSS. I guess I should've cleaned there MUCH earlier.

Rosie liked playing in the fridge's cave, while I was finishing touch ups!

Here is the after! It didn't turn out to be the color I thought it would (The paint sample looked much more beige than this). But since we are moving, it didn't bother me. It is neutral and fresh and bright!

In the midst of all of this, I finally bought a piano. (My parents gave me money for this for my birthday!)

This is the kids bathroom. Before we knew we were moving it was not a priority because it was the kids bathroom and bright is fine there. But we are making everything as neutral and attractive as possible.

It was when I was painting this that Jared told me, "Mom, you know that yellow is my favorite color! I will never trust you again!"
Yikes.
We are planning on painting something yellow when we move.

After

New paint (same color as the kitchen) and new shelves and towel hooks

If you didn't notice from the pictures above, we had a lot of brass in the house. And we changed it all out.

With the lone exception of the chandelier in the foyer. Because it is huge and high and expensive.

I did most of the handles, bathroom hardware and hinges. Ken did the light fixtures.

Even though our realtor wanted us to, we had no plans to paint this room.
That is until the touch up paint we needed was dried out in the can!

This picture doesn't show the color very well, but it is lovely. I plan on using it again!

And you can see Ken's work on the chandelier.

This is our big wonderful bedroom. I don't think we'll find this in a house ever again!

The walls were never painted before we did. Just that contractor's beige.

It was a ton of work to paint this room. Especially since Ken insisted on taping everything! And we had to sand down the texture on those diagonal walls.

The sister missionaries in our ward came and helped me paint for a couple of hours one day. And that was maybe a third of the painting that needed to be done.

The biggest change in my life now is keeping this place clean. All. The. Time.
I sort of hate the pressure and the constant stress I've been feeling about it for weeks now. But I hope it will be over soon!