On The Cusp

I've been putting off a post because there was just nothing to tell. We have slowly been shoving paper around, permits, mostly, and finally got the last one out.......the building permit awaits. We decided to make the time go fast and went south for a vacation to San Francisco. It was great visiting friends there and having adult time while our kids played. We forgot all the intensity of Home-Building. We checked our email Thursday to find a note from Adair saying they expected to break ground this week!!


WOW!!

We drove by the property today and saw the Adair Homes sign planted prominently in the front. :) :) :) I got all tingly. :) :) :)

I am waiting to get a phone call from the excavator for an actual Ground-Break Time, when I'll be sure to haul the entire family up there with a camera to document the entire process.

THEN IT WILL ALL BE REAL!!!!!!!!!!

Colors

The one major project we opted to do ourselves is the painting. Inside and outside. Because I am obsessed with interior design (and exterior, as it follows), it takes a mammoth amount of research and refinement to figure out what colors are appropriate for which room. I have a LOT of decisions to make. We may end up painting everything in a neutral just to get started, but I'm not convinced YET that I can't get it "right" the first time. The exterior, for one, has to be Just Right the first time.

We have the added complication that we are building in a neighborhood, an older neighborhood, to boot, so we have to consider our color choices in the light of what is next to us, and WHO is next to us...we don't want to annoy our future neighbors with our extravagant house colors.

Sherwinn-Williams has a phenomenal program to help choose colors. You can upload your autocad picture of your house (better to use a computerized picture than a real one, less shadowing and stuff to deal with) to their program and choose from all kinds of paint colors. VERY helpful.

Right now, we're pretty undecided. Here are some ideas we're going back and forth between.

We both love the green.....but we love it so much we're already going with green for our big great-room/dining/kitchen downstairs. I'm afraid of having too much green. I want something warm...that will combat the greyness of the long winters here. I love choosing opposite shades for the accent gables. One cool color and one warm seem to do very well together.

Hmm....I've spent 6 hours on Sherwinn-Williams website today. I guess I should go get something non-virtual done. Like clean my rental home. ;)