This past weekend was more painting! The main downstairs rooms, aside from the kitchen, now have beautiful, touched-up walls, and we're on to trim work. I've found that trim provides a less fulfilling painting experience but things are coming along, and our 'Toasted Coffee' has brightened the rooms more than I expected.

Our all off-white house actually had five multi-colored layers of paint on our office windowsills so we got out our steamer, Citristrip, and scrapers and went to work on them and other windowsills downstairs.

Big Accomplishments of the week:

• We are on the books for both a contractor to take out a wall on the first floor and someone to refinish our floors. After many quotes and asking lots and lots of questions, we decided to work with a couple local family businesses for both. Our hope, in an ideal world, is to have both of these major projects complete by the end of May. After that the moving can begin!
• We finished up second coats of paint in the front room, dining room, and office, along with starting to paint the trim. We've also been doing a little painting in the upstairs bedrooms.
• We had our first gas leak (and subsequent fixing of gas leak)!