four day countdown

It was a flurry of activity at the house today. I took off work to meet with the insurance adjuster and be there for the appliance delivery.. so I had the joy of witnessing it all first hand.

It was the first I had seen the floors in person. Dark walnut is gorgeous, perfect, just what we were hoping.They have a bunch of mats down to protect the floors now.

The appliances arrived early afternoon. They backed the truck right up to the front stoop to unload the appliances.

Meanwhile they were breaking stuff up to fit more boxes/plywood etc in the dumpster. I'm laughing looking at this photo bc it looks like Anthony is flexing his muscles standing on the dumpster.
Alan teased me, you ordered the blue refrigerator? (its stainless under that wrap!)
Can you see her peaking out from behind the island? That's the blue star! Dear husband is going to be soooo excited. Also look at all the bottom cabinet drawers. It looks so pretty in person, I was about speechless.

The electricians were busy. Our ceiling fans are installed as is all the recessed kitchen lighting. Yes, that's our powder room vanity in the middle of our living room... and it looks amazing!

Here's the ceiling fan in the master bedroom. I Love how the dark floors brought out a little more grey in all the paint colors.

Here's the blue room. I think once we add some furniture and an area rug this will look really soothing and nice. I was a bit worried that the grey blue was too blue and too bright.

Look how grey it looks here though! Pretty, no?

I have loads more photos from the day to post, but have to run to meet dear husband who has not yet been to the house! We're four days from move in... amazing.

calming down

Well it was snowing this morning so "day light" was a stretch.... I was again poking around the house with that giant construction light. But I think I'm calming down about the color of the hallway. Though it's brighter than what I was anticipating, if anything it's just a bit more cheerful. It's not offensively bright or anything... it's just not exactly what I was anticipating. That said, if I've learned anything this year it's that I can adapt! Here are a few photos from this morning.

I think partially it's just another swell of being overwhelmed by the process and putting this pressure on myself to have everything Perfect. I've been extremely stressed this past week with insurance and banking stuff but have to push through that..... so my emotions came to the surface with the paint color (something I have more control over).

Look how different the color looks even depending on the flash/lighting. This photo I took with the paint sample up on the wall. It doesn't look as yellow at all! I think also I had grown so accustom to the grey wall of the sheet rock... that seeing any color was a bit of a shock. As soon as we get in there with some furniture, fabrics, art on the walls it won't look so much like these giant blocks of color.

Here it looks a bit more yellow, but the added irony is that for a while I was contemplating a yellow hallway! I'm not 100% feeling better about this, but I'm above 85% at this point and no longer considering calling my GC in tears. (I really didn't want to be that person!)

...and the really great thing is, I still caught my 7:28am train!

floored

It's six thirty am. After a bit of a sleepless night, I'm not feeling any better about the paint situation. If he had gotten a delayed-opening or a snow day, dear husband was going to go with me to the house come sunrise, but he's running off to school now. I'm on my own. I really really hope it looks better in day light. In the meantime, I'm moving onto the floors.

Here's the stain we're currently leaning towards, "dark walnut".

Here it is again:

...and here in a white kitchen

At first we were drawn to "english chestnut" but I think it's too red and not dark enough:

More on this later-- the sun is rising and I'm headed out!

hall color

Trying to find photos of what the hall color kind of looks like... this is the closest I come. Don't get me wrong, these are two inspiration photos (origins unknown, sorry)... and it makes me feel a little better... how the color blends in with the other patterns/colors/textures of a room-- but it was just not the color I was envisioning... and it's not like there's SO many other things in a hallway. sigh. I need to go to sleep and just see it in the morning- it's just my obsessive brain won't slow down....

anxiety

They put the first coat of paint on the walls... which would be exciting except I'm having major anxiety about the colors. I feel kind of sick actually. It looks like a circus to me-- too many, too bright...

Dear husband has tried to calm me down by saying that I should go over in the morning, take a look with the natural light. It's not fair to judge colors by a construction flood light. He's right. Right?

Here's the worst of it. This is the hallway and the blue/grey music room. The music room color is fine, a little more purple and less grey than what I thought... but fine. The hallway is really making me nervous.
It's the hallway color that I'm most worried about. It looked orange.... way too much yellow pigment in it. I was hoping for a softer Shaker Beige color and instead it seemed (at least tonight) to have WAY too much color. We'll see what tomorrow brings, but I'm ready to call it out as a (major) mistake and see if they can fix it. I think the colors of the rooms off the hallway are okay, it's just that the hallway being so bright or something makes the whole thing look like a circus.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but dear husband is a COLOR guy. He'd go for the deep reds and all... I wanted muted, calming tones... but tried to compromise by doing green and blue and yellow.... now I'm worried it looks claustrophobically colorful (I don't expect that to make sense to anyone else). I would have been happy with white walls honestly.

I'm trying to comfort myself that it will also look different when there's furniture and Stuff inside... I'm trying to remind myself that color moves. I'm trying to look at my inspiration photos and see that there are colored walls.

Focusing on the positive. I like "alpaca" in the kitchen/family room:

I love "winter solstice" in the back bedroom:

I love "paris rain" in our bedroom.

Less sold on the "filtered sunlight" in the front bedroom, but I think it really comes down to the hallway. If it were more neutral, everything else would be okay.

We'll see what it looks like tomorrow. I just looked it up and sunrise is at 7:15am-- so I'll be there. Worst case scenerio, it's a mistake that has to be fixed and we'll figure out how to fix it... right? I'm really trying to talk myself into feeling better about this one.....