This Saturday was a gorgeous day in Santa Cruz. After all the rain we’ve had, when the sun came out, you could almost see the flowers blooming as you watched.
I snapped some pictures of some of the blossoms in our garden. Help identifying the plants would be welcome!
Camellia?
It’s taken way longer than it should have, but I’ve finally finished painting the “master” bedroom. I put this in quotes because it’s as small as the other bedroom, it just has a french door to the back deck.
When we bought the house, the color was a very dark blue. When you’d turn on the light, it felt like the light was being swallowed up.
Dark room
Patching - Early stages
In the living room, we had a few places that needed patching. Millou (our agent) recommended Peter as the master texture/patching guy. He came by on Thursday, and I showed him what needed to be done.
On Friday I left him in the house and when I came back, I found a lot more patching than I realized was required. (Our sheet rock is starting to buckle and seperate, and these places needed to be scraped and patched.)
I haven’t been updating because I’ve been so tired after getting all the work done that I just haven’t had the energy. And now I have a backlog of photos so I’m going to try to break it up.
My parents came to visit this weekend which was great! I was in the middle of TSP-ing the walls in the back bedroom, and I was more than happy to take a break. I was really happy they’d taken the time to come visit and it was fun showing them the house. I’m pretty sure they think we’re insane now that they’ve seen it, but I’m also pretty sure my insanity is not news.
Small paint swatches
So I’ll start off with the quickest updates. We’re trying more paint colors on the exterior of the house. The house is starting to look pretty patchwork at this point. However, we narrowed it down to three colors from there and tried them in bigger swatches. And now it’s narrowed down to two! Which is your favorite, the deep blue at the bottom middle (Benjamin Moore - van deusen blue), the blue green on the left side under the window (Sherwin Williams - Studio Blue Green), or the olive green on the right(Fuller O’Brein - custom color)?
Large paint swatches
Eli and I spent the majority of the weekend working on the house. All the carpet is out, the tack strips have been removed (those things are EVIL) and staples have been pain-stakingly pulled out.
The Carpet-less hallway
So for the second time in my life, I’m being threatened with a law suit. This time is far more ludicrous than the first.
We met at the house last night to sign the final paperwork. The bank had given us an addendum that they asked us to sign. However, it had a clause on it that waived some of our statutory rights. We were uncomfortable with that, so we decided to cross that out and sign the rest of the paper.
Tonight we are picking up our keys. However, the bank we are buying the house from said that even though the house has been recorded as ours, they will sue us to get the house back if we don’t sign this addendum as is, waiving our rights.
I just want to figure out paint colors for the walls, I’m not really into this whole lawsuit business.
Maybe I’ll paint the walls Lawyer Lemon with Punitive Pumice for trim and Bureaucratic Bull Shite Brown for the wood.