From this to This!!

Painting weekend has finally approached. Nick has been prepping the house for the last month and the "day" has arrived. To preface, I have major disdain for our HOA. Okay, not so much for the HOA directly but for the Architectural committee who picked out the color schemes. Nick and I had picked out what we thought would be an acceptable selection of paint choices and got denied simply because it was not one of the approved schemes. Then they need to change their form, there was a specific spot for color choices listed on it. We ended up picking one, the best of the worst. We wanted the body color of the house to be darker brown and have a lighter brown on the popouts. What we ended up with was a slightly darker body color than the original, but a bright white for the popouts. It looks good, but not nearly as good as our choices would have looked.

Here are the before and after pictures from today

From this:


To this:


On a lighter note, since Nick had to take the day off I am going out and scrapbooking tonight. He turned down a date night and I took advantage of it. I'll post layouts tomorrow.