It's Finally Empty!

Well, thank goodness! We finally get to cross a few more items off of the nursery to-do list. Over the weekend, MM ripped out all the trim in the room. Whoever put that trim in really did a terrible job, but now that's gone and we can continue to prepare for Princess Gummi.

Here you can see MM working hard. He's doing such a great job getting everything done!

And here's the finished product; a trim-less room! (The carpet will be coming out in May in preparation for new laminate flooring.)

After MM ripped out the trim, he painted some sample swatches on the wall. I NEVER trust paint chips, so we buy sample pots of the colors we want to consider. The cream color on the left was horrid; it reminded me of the 80's. Not good for a nursery. The color on the end, Vert, looked great on the paint chip, but terrible on the wall. We tentatively settled on the middle color, Sugar Snap Pea. It had the right tones and reminded MM of the coast, so it seems perfect.

And FINALLY, I got the room completely emptied tonight. The only things remaining are what's staying in the room or the tools we still need. (I hid it all in the closet for the photo-op!)

In this pic, you can see that I wasn't satisfied with just some sample swatches of Sugar Snap Pea on the wall. Now that 1/3 of this wall has been painted, I am 100% sure that it is the color I want to use. MM will be happy about that. I usually go through at least 5 samples and several weeks before I decide on a paint color. That piece of paper tacked to the wall is the list of everything that still needs to be done. It's a lot still, but things are steadily being crossed off.

Finally, here is a pic of the fun I had tonight. We only have the crib purchased, but I know what we're buying for the rest of the furniture so I went online and got all the measurements for everything. I got the HGTV Platinum Home & Landscape Design Suite for Christmas, so I plugged everything in and started playing with the floor plan. I thought I had it all settled, but I wanted to be sure, so I used a design tip I'd seen (on HGTV, of course), and started taping out the measurements. Well, lo and behold my original plan just didn't work. So, I played around with it a bit more and settled on something I think we'll all be able to live with. I'll leave the tape down for a while we'll see how everything works. The only thing concerning me now is the placement of wall art. Once I get that figured out, we'll be set!

For the most part, everything's going well, but we have had a setback. Our original goal date for completing the nursery was July 3, but we've had to push that back a few weeks. We'd been noticing some growing problems with our floors where they meet the walls and knew it had to be a foundation problem. MM attempted to get some of the work done on his own, but the job was just too big.

At the Home & Garden show about a month back, we met with a company that specializes in foundation repair. Well, we set up an appointment and started thinking about how to raise and/or finance the ten to fourteen thousand that an average foundation repair costs. The company came out last Wednesday and did the inspection and estimate and it's just going to be about $2500. It's still going to be a bit tough, but at least we won't need to go into debt to get it fixed!

Unfortunately, though, we can't afford to have the job done until mid-May so we've had to push back the flooring installation until after. That adds a bit of extra stress, but we're glad that the job is going to be done right and completely. It will really help the re-sell value of the house. My dad is going to come out one weekend to help us install the flooring, so it'll all work out fine.

Well, that's the nursery update for now! Princess Gummi is proving to be an active little girl and a bit of a stinker. Her schedule is backwards, so she keeps me up at night quite often. Oh well. I guess it's good practice for what's to come in four months!!