I spy

The 'for sale' sign on a post arrived yesterday, high enough now that you can see it (the other one was temporary).  Of course, I snuck behind the peep-hole to watch it being installed.

Before and after: The dining/living room

This is one area of the house that's sustained a lot of abuse and clutter.  It's also one of the most travelled-through parts of the house, which was made even more difficult when it resembled a storage locker.  We've had office furniture moved into it, tile storage, moulding and sawhorses...not once have we been able to use it to live or dine in, until now!*

*And believe me, it's still in shock.

A dining room?  For real?  *blink blink*

No more squeezing our way through construction clutter, I can do twirls in here now!

Watch out now, here come the before photos (they scare me):

Oh, sad days -- burgundy days.

Balloon window treatments, in burgundy, naturally.  Why look, there's a whack of moulding too!

And all of the office furniture/clutter awaiting a new home...somewhere.

Big before and after: The entryway

Light, bright, just right!

Ah yes, I'm going through memory lane looking at all our before photos at the moment.  This installment is dedicated to our entryway.  Just a short while ago it was burgundy, thanks to Trevor's hands and ideas.  And then I came along and changed it.  Sure, we lived with the burgundy for a while, but it was really oppressive and, well...burgundy.  A coat of primer and two coats of paint later (and moulding, and flooring...) and it's a brighter, lighter entryway.

Bur-gun-dy.  'Nuff said.

Entryway vignette

Just a little preview of what I've photographed over the past few days (there will be more to come -- promise!).  The pale yellow gerberas make it all work and that tall silver thing is a kaleidoscope, just in case you're wondering!

Oodles of flowers

I picked up a load of flowers today to add to areas throughout the house.  I first picked a colour palette of white, green, yellow and a little red, and then browsed around the florist (bonus: Thursdays are 15% off customer appreciation days!).  I ended up selecting these:

A small perk

Now that the house is almost ready for staging (still a few touch-up's to get to, *shhh* those will be fixed on the weekend!) there's a little more time to do other things around here...like make homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream*.

Ohhhhh yeahhhhh.

*Okay, so it's really 'ice skim milk'.  I didn't have cream on hand, and it's stinkin' hot around these parts right now.  It still tastes good though!

One house for sale, coming up!

Above is a shot from a walk (okay, a 'snoop') through the neighbourhood.  We've got those crazy cottonwood fluffies all over the place, and sometimes it looks like it's snowing.

We did a major clean-out and organize this past week/weekend.  Our realtor came by on Sunday and we signed all the papers for listing our house (the house will be listed June 8th).  

This week we're spending our time cleaning and sorting things a little more and catching little things (um, forgot to silicone the bottom of a toilet, whoops!).  I'll be staging rooms this week and photographing them, so look forward to some good before and afters coming up!