Hi again everyone!

Boy, Saturday sure was a long, HOT day!  We started early, but it was worth it to beat the heat (thanks Julie and Kim for the doughnuts!)  But everybody had lots of fun painting our new office/annex space.  I’m not gonna lie: the place was not in the best of shape.  There were tons of holes in the walls, and Lord knows what is was we were wiping off all the surfaces.  The bottom of the walls where we took off the old baseboards was pretty torn up.  I think we’re either looking to get vinyl baseboards donated, or we’ll either ask some home improvement stores for their scrap 1″ x 4″, and then paint it or seal it or something.

We were lucky though to pull together a bunch of scrap paint in similar colors, and then just dumped them into big plastic buckets and mixed it all up together.  The beige and green buckets we ended up with actually turned out to be really nice shades, despite the fact we put together like 5-7 different colors of each.  Thank goodness for Jim bringing the power drill with the paint mixer attachment!

We didn’t get quite as far along as we had hoped to, but the place already looks so much better!  Jay and John’s office are now blue!  And we have an actual green Green Room!  I personally feel better knowing there’s a fresh coat of paint on just about every surface.

We’ll finish up paint on Tuesday (I call dibs on the kitchen cabinets!), and then cut and lay the new (gently used actually) carpet and new tile for the entryway on Saturday (thank you so much Kim!)

Please be sure to check out the pics!  More to come on Wednesday!

Katie