Our new Garage!

Well, I couldn't have all the fun updating the house.  Phil got a little manliness as well.  I really think this is going to be the "man cave" versus and actual garage now.  Parking in the garage?  Pfft! lol

THANK YOU to Garage Solutions Atlanta for our Monkey Bar System and to Randy Ray and crew for the excellent paint job both in the garage and interior!!

The space between the tool cart and the frig is left open for a storage cabinet we haven't purchased yet.  

New Decorations!

Thanks to my awesome sidekick, Lori, this weekend's shopping spree was a success!  Now she just needs to come by to put everything in it's rightful place.  As you can see below, we found some great treasures for the bookshelves but they need some reorganizing.  Lori is the master of that!  We shopped at local antique stores and HomeGoods.  I also picked up the new lampshade at Lowes yesterday, large P was from Hobby Lobby, and the small P was at Michaels.  I did have some of the other items already!

update on home progress

Here you go!  Before/After.

Starting off with the easy stuff - the baseboards and trim are all getting a fresh coat of white as are the stairs.  Right now the stair risers are just primed which is why you see all the scuffs.

Downstairs bathroom.  I have repainted this bathroom probably 4 times on my own and I just can't get it right.  This time I'm leaving it to the professionals. I've chosen Sherwin Williams Silver Strand (#7057) as the color.

Kitchen - here we're going from screaming yellow to Ben Moore Light Khaki (#2148-40).  You can see the actual color in the pic of the back door.  We're painting the kitchen to match the existing living room color.  And yes, I'm painting over the mural in the niche. I'm really bummed about it b/c I think it's beautiful but sadly it just will not go with the new theme.

And finally the Dining Room.  This one I left to the professionals b/c I am not tackling this red.  We've chosen Sherwin Williams Repose Gray (#7015) for this room. After all is said/done, the downstairs will be a very neutral pallet to get us ready to put this bad boy on the market in spring, 2016. :-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ok so as predicted, I took somewhat of a hiatus between Halloween and Christmas so I'll update everyone on what's been going on in the World de Procida...no much ;-)

We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving at home with my parents. Phil smoked a delicious turkey on the Green Egg.  The Sunday after Thanksgiving I traveled to Philadelphia where I spent the week working in the office and reconnected with colleagues.  It's so nice to see everyone.

December 19th-28th the four of us traveled to Ft. Lauderdale and took a 7-day cruise aboard the Regal Princess to St. Thomas and St. Maarten.  I've never seen water so beautiful.  Here's a YouTube video with great pictures taken by hubby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1LDdKIcOIY

I'm ready to go back now!

Coming back from vacation we had to replace our hot water heater and our frig.  Lucky for me I was still relaxed from the cruise so I didn't have a heart attack dealing with that!  Now the boys are back in school, Phil and I are back to work, and it's business as usual.  Guess we need to figure out our next project!