Today I did something that I have thought about a couple of times, but never followed through on. I always felt it was a little bourgeois and I’m young enough to do this myself, but today, I hired a maid service.

Matt and I took a first look at the house we are moving into with out all the previous occupants crap. Well, that’s what we thought we were going to look at, but the previous occupant hadn’t finished moving out her treasures (by treasures I mean crap). The movers are finishing it today and I’m going over after work to assess the situation. Again. 

My attitude going into this is that anything not moved by the movers is trash, and I’ve filed my paperwork, and have secured a flight plan for this crapola to be airborn for exactly 5 seconds before it hits the massive dumpster outside.

So the cleaners are coming tomorrow. 3 people, 3 hours. I fear they will be there longer. Not for money concerns but for the dirt. People, this place is dirty. Like crack house dirty.

“But the house is great! The yard is huge! 3 bedrooms! 2 Baths! A Fireplace! Loads of closet space! A weird little atrium that the Mr can turn into a cigar patio!” These are the things I scream in my head when I see the dirt.  I’m not posting you the 150 pictures I took of the house. I may do a before & after, maybe, but I know I will get comments like “WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!!!!”

Maybe it’s because both the Mr and I are handy. That we can tell the big jobs from the HUGE jobs and we know how to handle them.  Maybe it’s because the Mr and I both have art back grounds and can imagine how it will be better than most. Either way, we are probably crazy, but people, this is going to be a great house in a year. Seriously, a great house.

So yeah, the cleaners are coming tomorrow, and I should be getting a quote to lay down the travertine tile (it came with the house) today. I’d rather do the tile work now instead of cleaning the carpets (which man, need a miracle of modern science) but you know, money issues, it all depends.  It would be easier to get it done before we move in the furniture, but I’m not holding my breath.

Painting this weekend. We are going in & painting everything the same color, then when we are moved in & can finally relax I can add my colors back.  I tell you, I miss my orange rooms from Ohio (though I will never paint orange again! it’s so fucking hard!) and I miss my perfectly brown walls of my living room, and my bright cheery blue guest room (which I don’t seem to have a picture of) and my slate grey master bedroom (though it was probably a little too dark in retrospect).

  
I loved my Home Depot Orange!               Dark, but pretty

And I will re-create this room in the new house. I love this color of brown more than anything & it makes the couch & Matt’s paintings look fantastic! We do need new lamps & a better coffee table though. (God I miss this house *sob*)
What color goes with poop brown? We have poop brown tile counter tops in the kitchen & well, they are poop brown. How do I make them look less like poop in the mean time?

PS A huge thanks to Miss Becky who has some of the best connections of anyone I know The Mr was majorly impressed about the contractors last night. Now I just have to wait for them to call