Week ... whatever. We're here now!

Hey everyone!

No, I'm not going to allow this blog to turn into a ghost town, not when our journey is just beginning! We're doing so much, but it still seems like we're treading water! It has taken an appallingly long amount of time to get this house organized, although it looks like we've just moved in, because we're still not fully unpacked, this is mostly due the fact that our closet systems won't be installed October 13. We are struggling, but it's giving me an opportunity to really think long and hard about what we need for this house vs what we want, to get rid of some of the fat, and to make more careful and considerate design choices.

In the meantime, after a lot of back and forth, cancellations, and general contractor flakiness, we finally found a reputable painting company to come out and get our entire house painted in two days. TWO DAYS! The company was Simply The Best Painting company, and these guys are beasts. They were here at 7 am, worked for as long as they had to, covered everything up and didn't get a speck of paint anywhere other than the walls. They also did some very light woodwork for us that turned out spectacular! I will post pics soon, the house is far too messy and embarrassing to put on display, and it would do the guys who worked so hard to make this house beautiful no favors.
But here's a little something just to see what we're trying to do:

This fireplace wall drives me nuts, but it's starting to come together for me now! Still have more planned for it, but this is nice progress. Over to the side, our new crown moulding, chair rail and wainscoting in our eating area! Completely transformed the room. The accent wall color is Benjamin Moore Graphite, but we color matched to Sherwin Williams paint, for the cashmere finish. Color on the dining wall is also Benjamin Moore, Classic Gray color matched to SW. 

I have my own pet projects here, because I'm bored out of my mind and I need something to do. I painted my own closet, and worked very closely with the closet company to design it. I'm still not done with it and have a lot more to do before my closet system is installed, but here's a sneak peek:

Yes I know, I'm such a girl. :-) The color is Sherwin Williams "Little Blue Box", the finish is cashmere in low lustre. Amazing, amazing, AMAZING finish! So velvety smooth!

We still have no cable, no internet, no life. Evil empire Crapcast basically knows that we have no other options, and they will get out here to fix our cable lines when they're good and freaking ready. No seriously, they really told us that. And what are we going to do about it anyway?

Fortunately for us, we will have internet installed on Thursday by an independent company here in Frederick called Telegia Communications. They are a smaller company and mostly service businesses, they are more expensive, but they come highly recommended by the Reddit Frederick community, and honestly it feels GREAT to be able to stick it to Comcast in a small, yet satisfying way. If it were up to me, we'd have a Telegia/DirecTV (yes, owned by AT&T and still evil, but somehow, less so than Comcast) combination and would tell Comcast to go directly to Hell ... but we live on the east coast now, and we are still burned by our last experience with satellite while living out here, not being able to watch TV or DVR anything for days at a time during rain and snow storms.
So Comcast for television it is. Maybe we'll actually be able to watch TV by the time the winter television hiatuses are over!

At least my kitchen is unpacked and we're back to eating good food (I'm kind of a lazy low carber) and I'm cooking and baking up a storm! Perfect timing for all of the fall goodies that I've pinning over on Pinterest like crazy.

It's about that time! 

Attempting to organize my life. Homemade cereal blend!

We still have a long, long list of expensive tasks to accomplish and finish, including lighting, window treatments, and furnishing the empty rooms here. Will check back in soon!