Day 3 with the house, and change is already underway. The priorities right now are 1) one of the spare bedrooms, 2) the photography gallery/client room, and 3) the dining room. The reasons are 1) that's where I'll be sleeping until Kylie moves in after the wedding in January, 2) this is where I'll meet with clients to talk about their session and/or show their session images, and 3) it looks like a court jester right now. I'll be moving in mid-August and likely won't have all 3 rooms finished by then, but I'm going to strategically pile furniture/stuff in other rooms until they're ready for their final destination. First up is the dining room. How did the dining room move up to the first slot? Good question... well, ya see it goes like this. We had a painter come out to do an estimate on several rooms, and before we knew it, he just took the liberty of seeing how easy the wall paper would come off in the dining room by tearing a sample piece smack dab in the middle of the wall. 'Thanks for the eye sore in the middle of the room' I remember thinkin' to myself. 'Ya couldn't have tested that, oh I dunno know, in an inconspicuous corner or somethin'?' Here's a quick refresher of what the dining room looked like when we first saw the house. Lovely, I know.

Here's what it looks like know after Kylie and I spent most of the afternoon de-wallpapering it. Above the chair rail was a breeze. I thought we were the best de-wallpaperers ever. Below the chair rail? Not so much. What a beat-down.

And here's a down and dirty quick Photoshop job showing one of the ideas we're thinking about for the final facelift. Imagine a cool rug, a dark wood table and chairs, and some artwork on the walls. Oh, yeah, and that chandelier's days are numbered, too.

We're still working on the shade of blue and whether we're doing same color gloss stripes or not and whether we're going to add in some chocolate brown somewhere, but you get the idea. Fortunately there's no wall paper in the spare bedroom we're getting ready to start. Unfortunately, there's lots of it in the photography gallery room, and none of it is coming off very easy. Good times.