a tsunami is a'comin

a tsunami is making it's way here.

canceled drywallers

canceled trip to plumbing store to buy fixtures needed by wednesday....

saw the lines and empty shelves of longs and safeway via facebook and twitter...

note to self: in the future, buy more canned goods.

wishing: i didn't eat a canned tuna last night.

thankful: that we went to costco last week so we at least have bottled water.

hoping: there will be no tsunami.

e ♥ db

i have the hugest crush on david bromstad.

yes, i know he doesn't like my kind (and by "my kind" i mean females) in that way, but i have a huge crush anyway. how bad is my crush? well, i stop short of posters of him on my wall (nolan would just die), and his face isn't on any heart shaped pillows, but i do dvr all color splash episodes on hgtv and i follow him on twitter--he twitpics from new colorsplash sets ALL the time!

i would die a happy girl if i walked into the apartment and he were standing there w/his color splash team ready to make over our apartment!

he has such fun and clever ideas. i mean, he made a jellyfish lantern lamp out of coffee filters and pink party streamers and it looked ah-ma-zing!

this is him, isn't he adorable?

this picture is from a cb2 blog post they did on him...

you can read it here.

now i know nolan's gonna read this and be like "aw man, why did you write a post about the color splash guy???" WHY? because our apartment renovations have been dragging. (boo) and because i wanted to write another post. and because every time i think about what to do with the new apartment 'WWDBD?' comes to mind. what would david bromstad do? (that along w/"what should i do"---which will be another post entirely, with another totally random & totally irrelevant surprise thrown in, just because it makes me smile...like this david bromstad picture does. hahaha)

let there be light

We went to the building management office to discuss our renovation plans with them to see if we needed any permits or things of that nature...we brought up putting in track lighting because we didn't want to have to rely on a million (ok, 2) floor lamps all over the place. They informed us that there is wiring ready for light fixtures built into the ceiling, the old owner may not have been aware of...we just would need to cut through the drywall.
yay! more lighting options! i love lighting. i hate dark rooms.

and scott makes another cameo in our bloggity blog.

i think we'll stick w/track lighting here...this is gonna be our TV wall.
or should i say, Nolan's tv wall.

lighting in the master bedroom.

what does this all mean???
more options!

more things to think about!

and...
more trips to lowes...

don't forget to help us decide on a paint color, by voting!

stale popcorn

hellooooo, welcome to our future home!what's with all the plastic you may ask?
well, it's our first demo of the day!

first job: get rid of the popcorn ceiling!
i don't really care either way. i'd rather not have it but i could live with it. we have it at our current place and i barely notice it. maybe i'm just used to it. but nolan hates it so if we can remove it, he said "get rid of it!!!"

so you wanna see???
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smooth ceilings!

i do love the new smooth ceilings!
all the plastic reminds me of some kind of creepy sicko crime scene from CSI, no?

don't forget to vote for a paint color!

the color conundrum continues...

it's a whole different ball game when the paint is dry.
when we went back to the apartment the next day to let the drywallers in (more on that later)

we saw our paint swatches in a whole new light.
or so i thought...but now that i look at these pics next to eachother, i'm not so sure...
either way, we changed our minds...

PAINT DAY:

THE NEXT DAY:

hmmm...maybe it was just our imaginations, but we decided the top color we picked looked too dark, and so we're now going with the middle color!
the winner is....benjamin moore's sea urchin!
(.....i think....)
it's amazing what lighting does. that color looks completely different in the other room.

but the blue...oh the blues.
we still can't make up our minds.
upon seeing the dry paint, nolan thinks he now likes quiet moments...

PAINT DAY:

THE NEXT DAY:

so...because we couldn't decide, what did i do?
i painted even bigger swatches!!!
silver marlin? quiet moments? smoke?
smoke on our walls look nothing like the pictures on the internet...

i put a little polling box on the sidebar --->
help us pick!

color conundrum

we start demo tomorrow, so we needed to decide on a paint color ASAP.
blue for the walls, brown for the bathroom...how hard could that be?!?

hard at work...



ok, so we pretty much don't like any of them!
but narrowed it down to 4 that we are ok with...
(sorry for the poor lighting, there are no lights and it was cloudy outside)
opinions? suggestions?
PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyone out there???
nolan likes smoke. i wish smoke was a little lighter. i wonder if you could mix white into it?
i really wanted to like quiet moments...maybe it's the way nolan painted it on the wall..

EDITED: so upon some advice from sherry @ younghouselove, she suggested to stick w/silver marlin or quiet moments to avoid the room potentially looking like a little boy's room (kid's nursery room...not the bathroom...i think)

good idea. (thanks sherry!)

now for the bathroom...
we forgot the light worked in the bathroom so we started painting outside...
we liked 3, 4, & 6.

but in the bathroom w/the light on....

we picked 6 (the top color)

PLEASE HELP US DECIDE!

got our keys!!!

we got our keys and key fobs today!

this is the first time entering as home owners...
please excuse my hobo clothes, we're about to get our paint on, and i didn't want to wear nice clothes...as i did...get paint all over me.

going in!
woo hoo!

now onto the painting....we need help!