10 days before we move in

10 days before we move in!!!!

We have lots of painting left to do in the living room, now that it's nearly empty, we have to get to it!

going neutral for now, need to live here a bit to decide for sure what color to go with, temporary curtains up until I can get my blinds and get them cut to fit the windows

as you can see, "most" of the stuff has been removed from the living room, an old tv was left we will dispose of but the rocking chair and folding chairs we brought with us, needed something to sit on LOL and if you haven't already noticed, the carpet, oh yes, it's original from 1965 and it will be replaced with laminate flooring, something in the oak look to match all the hardwood floors in the bedrooms, hallways, kids bedrooms, but of course, the kitchen, bathrooms, dining and living rooms didn't have it BOO, that's ok, I have already put down laminate in the bathrooms, just give me some time, the kitchen will be laminate or tile at first, but eventually they will all get some of that laminate wood flooring!!! for now my sister will be doing some scrubbing with her floor scrubber!! So we had a pizza party, my sis, myself and our 3 kids painted, cleaned and hogged out on pizza!!!

need to get the new window treatments after we get sizes all measured and what a pretty view out the window of the huge maple tree and a burning bush over by the road

front door, yes that is a priority for me to replace, but can live with it for now, the light streams thru those windows and has the flooring faded!! so for now I put up some of that privacy sticky stuff on the lower 2 windows to help at least block out some of the rays, left top open so I can spy on who ever comes to the door HA ~ he's ready to be moved in, tired of all the painting, can't say I blame him LOL

and the chair, what can I say about that chair, well the lovely gal who bought our old house, gave me a chair identical to this one that was left in the house, they will eventually get it but for now it's waiting to be picked up, anyway, my new lovely chair is blue/white pattern fabric but a very solid wing-back chair I was thrilled when Denise gave it to me as well as an ottoman to go with it (isn't she just a doll?), I have already ordered a covering for it as well as the ottoman that goes with it, when it arrives I will be sure to show you just how beautiful it can look!! (not this chair but mine ha ha)

and not sure if you noticed or not, but there are a couple floor lamps in the living room, when they built this home in 1965 they did NOT put ceiling lights in the living room, I still don't understand this when all the other rooms have ceiling lights!! But to be fair, our old home was built in 1958 and it was the same way, this home WILL get ceiling fans and lighting IN THE CEILING down the road, I like lamps don't get me wrong, but I want to flip a light switch and have me some ceiling fans!!

I will be back next time with some dining room photos :)