Our new house was tented for termites this week. All houses in La Mirada have termites. It's a given and everyone has to have their house treated for them when they sell their house. But this is a very good sign. Tenting your house is about the last thing one does before moving.
We are having our house tented this coming week as well. So, I'm pretty excited to be moving along at this pace, finally. I'm hoping and praying we can be moved by Labor Day weekend. It will be close, but I start my Adult School job that week and I really want everything finished before I have to go back to work. Well, we'll see, I guess. Moving in will require the obvious labor etc., but we are also going to put in new carpeting upstairs in the master bedroom. It's a huge room but it has blue shag carpeting. Yuck. I remember when I liked that stuff, though, so I should behave myself. So, our plans are to put in new carpeting, do some painting, not sure how much, and some tile in the bathroom.
My nephew is a designer, so he's helping us with colors etc. We went Sunday to pick out carpeting and paint. He's going for a Tuscan look upstairs and if we like it enough, we may go for it throughout the house. We'll have to see. I like the earth colors and I think the house lends itself towards that look on the inside. The outside of the house has to be lightened up a lot. The dark green trim is too overbearing. If we replace the garage doors with generic white garage doors, it will really make the house look more modern. They still have the old wooden, spring type doors. When we take the big tree out front out, you'll actually be able to see the house! It really hides everything right now.
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