PAINTING

Philip and I finally found colors we could live with and started painting on Saturday. I painted the laundry in the green left by the previous owners. Its a nice color in a small room not a dining room. Ethan hasn't got his green but other boys got paint rejects from Home Depot.. 5 dollars for the gallon. Gavin picked a gray for his SPY theme and Carson got three little cans for 1 dollar each. A bright yellow, ocean blue, and navy. He is getting Tommy Hilfiger strips (yes sounds good huh_ to go with his surfer room. Anyone got a surf board? Still working on Philip to do the Purple suede and silver metallic reproduction of a euro room. I got the wall idea from a room in the Notre Dame. He doesn't know about the chandelier idea yet. lol

We decided to get bids on updating the doors with glass and adding in a wine rack and lights. BUT THEN Philip painted today and said they look really good. The new trend in cabinets is to have various sizes so we are looking into adding a taller cabinet to replace one that has mismatched sized doors. I will then use the cabinet in another bathroom. We did go ahead and use our house fund for all wood floors on the main floor. For the past few weeks we have looked at tiles, but i cant find anything we like. So just doing to do the laundry and bath.
On a funny note.. we signed last week for the house. Had tons of contractors look at all we would like to change. LOL one guy,, a great nice man, came back with a quote to finish the basement. It was 26 thousand dollars. LOL our house isn't worth improving for that amount. I mentioned to him Philip was military and it took him years to save for this house for us. That he shouldn't bid unless it was a poor mans salary to pay for it. WELL funny is we cant use him but he did a great job of floor plans for us so we have a professional idea of what it could look like. wahoo

Last night's Facebook post: had a great visit with my parents today. We did the walk through for the house and the boys picked their rooms.

Our good friends posted the following:

What? no fighting to report? My reply: no its all good. I was shocked. And not one of picked the room i thought they would.

I have thought about this a lot. Bringing flash backs from subbing Kerrigan's lessons in 7Th Grade math on probability. I bring her up first because if it weren't for her lesson and example on how if a family has two boys/girls shouldn't they have a opposite gaurantee for the third? Hehe we know NO and my friend with four little boys know NO. I know I would try to change the outcome of their choices with rational reasoning. Only to have them miserable they didnt stick with the choice made while allowed to think freely. This is not a bad thing anymore.
Yes in my mind Carson should have picked the biggest bedroom next to the bathroom and ours. Instead he chose the middle room with only one window and the smallest. His reasoning was he would have less of a room to clean. This is the same kid who wants no more toys because he is tierd of cleaning them.
Gavin chose the front bedroom that faces the street and has a view of the backyards off the next block. He thinks he will get to see everyone's buisiness. This not at all a freakish thing but right now he is of mind he is going to be a SPY. Three languages under his belt and a memory he amazes us with ...I am not argueing.
Ethan chose the largest room. All I got out the conversation about it was our realtor told him it would be a good room if he likes to sleep in. Hmmm Philip and I got a good chuckle since he is normally a morning person. Guess early was getting up with Dad. At least he is the clean one so the room next to ours wont reek too much.

My Mom reminded me of how we would change rooms and rearrange all the time. Yes, she was cool about it. Which only helped me be a better military wife later,,changing your spaces is a good thing. It also gave me an eye for "staging" things.

another reply to my post of them choosing rooms was Do they all get to pick out the decor too?

yes but thats where the fighting with Philip will come to play lol. He is ok with color now..took 6 months but only one wall. Their favorite show was Extreme Home Makeover....
right now Carson is at a toss up for a castle room or a space room. I found a wall mural I think he will love. A castleI have to paint my arms off. OkI do have some artistic talent and he is just 7. If he goes with the space room he wants a bed that is mounted with a nerf gun so he can play space ship. Philip is saying yep to my ideas on the space room. SOLD.
Gavin ... wants a spy room.. any ideas?
Ethan is getting my our bedroom set. He wants dark green walls. No problem. Easy kid. Like his dad wants no frills.