Making it Pretty

I am getting to the stage that I need to start fluffing it up.  My painter will arrive next week so I am choosing paint colors.  I usually go with my standard Sherwin Williams colors (kilim beige for beds and hall, a green/khaki for the living room, and a match for Olympic brand “Belgian Waffle” for the kitchen). However, my new painter uses Porter and gets a great price so I stopped by the Porter store here and picked up some paint cards.  I like my colors and get compliments on them so I am sticking with what works.   I am going a bit off plan and painting the bath “Cake Stand” from Martha Stewart, a nice icy and modern blue.  The vanity is “espresso” (black to you and me) and the rest is all a crisp white.  I am anxious to see how it turns out.  It looks great in my head!

I am off to ProSource today to see what kind of carpet they have in my price range.  I have been there a few times but have never ended up buying from there.  Someone told me he got a nice beige plush for 41cents a square foot so I am going to see if I can get that price.  My installer recently moved so I am trying out a new guy.

I put a few plants in the ground yesterday to get the yard into shape.  It really doesn’t need too much.  A previous owner built a nice stone wall all along the front and one side so I have some nice, defined planting areas.  I put some zebra grass down the side.  For $13 each at Home Depot, they look great and fill a lot of space.  It’s the first time I have tried the “landscaping grass” and I must say that it looks pretty nice.  I moved a few hostas and dug up a rose bush.  In went a few holly variety of bushes and it is shaping up nicely.  The back yard needs a lot of attention but I have to wait until we get a dumpster out there to get rid of some trash first.  We never really do a whole heck of a lot in the back because people just don’t seem to care really.  This one, however, has a killer back yard that backs into green space so it is part of the “wow” factor and will receive a few planting areas.