Paint with all the colors

Excuse the lame Pocahontas reference -- it's what came to mind when I was trying to think of a title for this post. We have finally finished painting and have photos, mirrors and shelves hung! All that is left now is doing the trim in our bedroom and touching up the ceiling, doors and closet doors.

We had some fun showing it off to some friends who came to our housewarming party, and the little yellow bedroom was perfect for my aunt Susan, who is in town from Hawaii until next week. It looks like an entirely different place with the fresh paint!

Here are some before pics of the bedroom:

Here are the after pics! Keep in mind that we also bought a new queen-size bed frame and mattress and new curtains, too, so more than just the paint has changed. :)

Andrew also painted the wall in the other room yellow to match the other three walls, so now it actually looks normal! No more ugly teal accent wall! Before:

As you can see, the teal does not exactly go great with the yellow (and, weirdly, the landlord painted the closet yellow, too, but ran out of paint for the last wall). Here's what it looks like now:

OK, the final pictures. I know I've already posted pictures of the bathroom, but we've added a shelf, cute framed prints and new towels and a bath rug since then. I must update with these photos:

Yay! Now you've all taken a tour of our cute little apartment. :) We had a good weekend celebrating Mother's Day and the one-year anniversary of the day Andrew proposed on Saturday. CRAZY that so much time has passed -- and I love him even more now!

Also, sorry to spring two parties in a row on you, BUT I am having a book club/meet the author party this Friday from 7-9 at our complex's clubhouse! My aunt, Susan Law Corpany, is an LDS fiction writer and has a new book, Lucky Change, that was nominated for a Whitney award. Come meet her, learn more about her books and snack on delicious goodies! We'll have giveaways and lots of fun! If you're interested, send me a message and I'll give you the address and directions!

I hope you're all doing well and having a lovely spring! We just want the rain and snow to STOP.

Splish splash

This has been a long time coming, but I thought I would finally post pictures of some things we've been working on for several weeks.

After seven months of living with our landlord's horrible mint green, teal and burgundy paint choices, we decided it was time to paint the bathroom and the bedroom. Don't worry. We're not going to get in trouble for painting. Eventually, he wants to sell his condo, and he appreciates anything we can do to make it more marketable. While it's hard to tell from these pictures, take my word for it -- the mint green and burgundy were HIDEOUS.

So we chose a pretty steel-grey and replaced the towel racks, hand towel ring and even the light fixtures while we were at it. We're pretty happy with the result.

It's not finished yet, and the pictures aren't great (our lighting is terrible), but we love the contrast of the grey with our shower curtain. Now, we just have to start on the bedroom. We picked a lovely light brown color and are SO excited to get rid of the mint green and teal currently in there.

We hope some of you in the area will be able to come see the finished product soon! :)