Paint Colors, Hardwood Samples & Light Fixtures

This is now my life.

We finally have a firm contract after waiting, inspections, waiting, renegotiations, more waiting, more waiting...sign the dotted line.

We have 90 days to sell our house and then we have to renegotiate. Hopefully to God and all things holy and right in the universe we won't have to do that.

We are having an open house next Sunday since there has been a surge in home sales in "nowhereville" Indiana. Everyone that has seem it has made an offer, we've accepted every offer - but their financing keeps falling through. The house is priced below market - it's just that people don't have their shit together before they start the process.

So we figure we need more people to see the house so they will want to buy the house - novel idea? and the realtor totally agrees.

In the interium I am decorating my new house...virtually. My husband has layed out the floor plan in his architect software so we are moving furniture around virtually and on moving day it will be simple. I have posted some more photos on flicker of the new house.

Plus behr.com has this wonderful program that allows you to paint walls of a chosen room so you can see what you like. I'm having fun with that. I think the bedroom will be a hot chocolate color with off white trim. Our black furniture will look great with that.

The kitchen will be a cinnamon color, except for one small wall that has the mini-desk, phone, intercom system on it - I think I am going to paint that with blackboard paint. Anyone used that stuff before?

The main floor is all hardwood or tile, but the other floors are carpeted so we have a plan to remove all carpet from the house. If the timing works to our advantage, we should have about a week's window between closings. We plan to take a crew of family and friends in there and rip out carpet, lay hardwood and/or tile while the house is empty all in one weekend.

Wish us luck!