Hello all

Painting update: We decided one of the colors we selected (a gold) is much too dark and orange on our wall, so we're going back to get another can of paint. I hate wasting it but I don't want to look at that orange for years... so back we go. We've decided on a more tan gold. I'm also going to get out my colored pencils and try to make a swatch of our carpet color because we don't want a clash.


I don't really want to be painting whilst in the grip of depression, but we want to unpack the rest of our books and so on, which we can't do until we've painted, unless we want to take every single book back out of the shelves and replace it. We have a LOT of books.


Also, the walls look terrible as the former owner did some patching with the wrong paint color, and left jagged holes from shelves and so on. Also there are big stains on the carpet that we've gone over 2x with a steam cleaner but not fully removed yet. However, we got an excellent price on the place and if it had been in great shape it would probably have sold for more. We could not afford more. So.... upgrades are needed and we are saving a lot of money by doing it ourselves when possible.