The Painting

This was the first color on the ceiling. Then we purchased the second color that I was hoping would go over it and make it look a bit marble like. But the finished product wasn't like what I had invisioned at all. So It's all painted the new color now.
This is what it looked like after the second color was added. NOT pretty at all.. SOOO!!! now it's like this.

We like this much more. It is Semi-gloss paint and so it has a nice sheen with shadows and shine. Plus this lighter color brightens the room alot more.
We are just glad to be able to move the furniture back in.

Don worked on the last row of bricks for the fireplace, but he ran out of mortar and can't finish the last 6 bricks. DARN! We have a barnboard panel that covers the ugly bricks at the top of the fireplace.
Some day we will have this room done!

The remodeling

The remodeling is coming along. My goal for the summer was to scrape the "popcorn" ceiling in the hallway, entry, livingroom, diningroom and kitchen. Don helped with removing the walls by the front door and moving the wall in front of the laundry room. (We changed the angle of it and moved it back about a foot so that this entry area is larger and the hallway is more open.) We worked on that over Memorial Day weekend. Brian was a huge help with tearing out the carpet and pad and Andrea was right behind him with the vacuum, cleaning up the mess. Now it's painting time. FINALLY!! I have one coat of paint on now and we are off to buy the second color to put over it. The idea is for it to be two colors of tan and the first coat is a darker tan which has covered the ceiling really well. But the second coat will just be rolled on lightly to just the highest textured areas of the ceiling. I hope it works~

The Laundry room got some new (used) cabinets and will also get a new sink (used) countertop and more storage areas.