Life has just been very full lately, which has led me to become a major slacker when it comes to blogging. Whoops.
First of all, my mom sold her house at the end of June. Hooray! But of course the buyers wanted to move in right away, so that set in motion a big family effort to help her get moved in with us.
We all know moving is a hugely stressful activity, but it's worse when it's 100 degrees outside and you have to get it all packed and moved and cleaned very quickly! My brother flew out to help, and the four of us - plus some amazing helpers from my mom's church - loaded a giant UHaul to the brim and drove it three hours to our house. I logged 22,000 thousand steps! Let's just say we all deserved the big Mountain Dew slurpees we drank at the end of the day.
The good news is, my mom's house is officially sold and she is settled in with us now. We gave her two of our guest rooms, and she is using one as her living room and one as her bedroom. It's the best we can do for a "mom cave" without knocking down walls or expanding our house. It's not totally ideal, but it's working pretty well so far. In between one of those rooms is our guest bathroom which she has always loved (well, ever since we renovated it), so it's working out pretty nicely. Her rooms are on the other side of the house from ours, so it's almost like she has her own wing of the house.
But let me back up a little bit. Before she ever moved in, we did some work to spruce up those two guest rooms. Neither room had received much attention since we moved in, so we decided to give both of them fresh coats of paint, new crown moulding, upgraded ceiling fans and recessing lighting. We even scraped off the old popcorn ceiling that was left in one of the closets and it's amazing how fresh and clean it looks now. Definitely worth it!
The first guest room went from a blah beige color to a bright, clean white - Pure White by Sherwin Williams. That's our go-to white paint for this house, since we have used it for practically everything else including baseboards, doors, kitchen cabinet, built-ins in the den, master closet, etc. Why fix something that's not broken, right? This room gets nice light, and I thought it would be really https://cacontractorhangouts.wordpress.com/
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