Ceiling!

I was at a conference in savannah all week and came home to a lovely new ceiling in the living room! 

Living it up

We're taking advantage of our ceiling fail to revamp the living room a bit. Overhead lights are in, walls are prepped for paint and the new ceiling goes in this week. Yippee!

New view from the deck

This will take some getting used to!

Close-up view of the new roof

Here's a shot from Shannon's phone to give you a better idea of the coloring and layout of our gorgeous new roofing tiles!

Getting closer

The bad news is I hate 2/3 of the colors I loved on paper. Good news is I loooove one. And we found it by chance, flipping through the color wheel while we were waiting on our sample to be mixed up. It's the middle color above. 1 (granite) was too dark and too blue; 3 (gray owl) was too light; but 2 (Cape May cobblestone) was just riiiight. Yay. The white on the double freeze board is BM dove white, our trim color (as seen on the dirty window below). We're getting closer!

Find the dog

A glimpse into the much less glamorous side of home improvement (hint: none of its glamorous). Poor Riley...

One month in

Today marks one month since we began our upstairs renovation! Here are a couple pics to show you how things are looking. I snapped these tonight and as you can see, they were putting the finishing touches on the roof just as I pulled up! It looks amazing. I'm so glad we didn't go any darker. To think I was considering Georgetown gray! Yikes.

I don't think we've posted a shot from the back so crawled around back there to get one too. (As you can see, the yard is a WRECK. Poor Riley can't find the grass these days.

Can't wait to get some paint on all this tan looking wood! But we're getting closer...