Finally a Closing Date

We are finally scheduled to close on our new house. It will be Monday afternoon and I'm pretty excited although sort of dreading all the work to be done in the next month. I really need to start figuring out what we need to do but it will be easier to pick paint colors and carpeting when I can get back in there and really look at the place again.

The living room needs to be painted but at this point I have no idea what color I want. It will most likely end up getting repainted in a few years anyway when we renovate our kitchen and open up the wall between the kitchen and living room. I thought about painting the trim and windows white but I think we'll just wait on that until we do the other renovations. It's a very time-consuming task. We are hoping to salvage the existing carpet in the living room and hallway. It's just a plain off-white color but is pretty dirty so hopefully after we do the carpet cleaning it will be good enough. We will have two kids under 3 here pretty soon so I don't think we would be doing ourselves any favors by getting brand new carpet in there.

The bedrooms are the other rooms that will need immediate attention. All the ceilings have the popcorn texture on them so we decided to do away with that in the bedrooms now since we will have to get new carpeting in those rooms anyway. (It is old 70s style shag carpet and has to go.) We will put a more modern texture on the ceilings and have them painted white. Brett is in the process of getting in touch with someone to do that. I think I will go ahead and paint the trim white in those rooms since they are being completely redone anyway. Then each room will be painted. I think I'll use the same paint color in our bedroom as I used in our current house. For Kyler's room we will have a little darker shade of gray. And for the nursery I am going to use a tan/brown color in hopes that it will be neutral enough for either gender. I have no idea what we will be getting for carpet. I need to go look around and price some out soon.

The bathroom and kitchen will need to be painted and have some cheap and minor updates done but that isn't as urgent since we won't be putting a bunch of heavy furniture in those rooms. We intend to remodel both in the next few years so there are no plans to do a lot of work right now as we prepare to move. I have no idea what paint colors I want to use in those rooms or anything at this point. As for the basement, we will probably just give it a good cleaning for now prior to moving stuff in. It will eventually be completely refinished as well but not in the next month or so.