Indoor Progress!

We've finally finished painting the "great room." It's taken quite a while because up until yesterday I did nothing but lay on the couch and take pictures. But after 8 hours of both of us painting yesterday (much soreness today), our living and dining rooms are painted, and 2 of 3 lighting fixtures changed out.

A couple weeks ago. Standing in the living room, looking into the dining room.

Ugly dining room light fixture before.

After! New dining room light fixture, new paint on all the walls (though it is hard to tell because the first picture was taken in the evening).

Beautiful dining room after.... still no table yet... some day :-)

Just another after shot. This time standing in the entryway. The entire house was WHITE. We now have a new neutral color throughout and one accent wall in green and one in mocha brown.

And finally, standing in the dining room looking toward the living room and entryway.... Reed's also a wonderful model as well as a painter/pool boy/gardener/handyman/etc.

Sabrina supervised us while we assembled the new light fixture. She's such a slave driver.

And Stella helped me with my fancy artwork while Reed went to pick up dinner.

We're replacing most of the light fixtures slowly but surely. And next painting project will probably be the master bedroom & bathroom, or the office. But the past few days it's been hard to drag ourselves out of the pool for long enough to do much inside work. 

I'm finally about 95% recovered from my surgery. Only hindrance now is the muscles in my lower back are a little tight so I can't bend as easily or as far as I used to but I'm stretching everyday hoping to be back to normal ASAP.

Hope you're all doing well, LOVE YOU!!