Packing and Painting Fun!

So, we didn't pack until the last minute. And we thought we could also paint the new house before we moved in. Setting ourselves up for: packing Monday-Thursday and painting Friday -Sunday. Throw a garage sale in there as well, and we were exhausted by moving day.

Oh well, I'm not shocked we procrastinated - packing is horrible. It takes so much time, you never have enough boxes / tape / packing paper / etc. And we were only moving 15 minutes away but still had to pack everything like we were moving cross country.

here are some pictures of the packing:

Kitchen all packed up. We ate take out and pizza for 2 weeks, it was horrible. I was craving grilled chicken and steamed broccoli!

And of course the cats were all freaked out with the moving and took advantage of the relax "rules". Here are paw prints all over the coffee table. Our cats aren't allowed on furniture normally....


And some pictures of painting:

Master bedroom all prepped for painting. We painted this room a really pale blue. As we were painting though it looked more like "electric baby blue". And we realized the trim was painted a creamy yellow color, which looked very colonial with our paint colors. So, we called in painters to quickly paint all of the trim and doors in the house bright white. This helped tone down the baby blue lots! Saved us from having to repaint!

The family room all prepped. We are painting this room one shade darker than the hall color. The green from the golf course is screwing up the colors! Everything in the room gets a green glow to it.