Umm, Holy Crap.

[naamah_darling]

Thank you all immensely for the good juju. You are my miracle workers.

Our third offer was approved, and we close on October 3rd.

I'm scared. Of course I am scared. I am so scared.

There's a lot of work to do, the transition is going to be so hard because this place is so different from the house we have now, from anyplace I have ever lived,

Comments

[bat_cheva]

Yeah, I'll just squee some more here... EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[naamah_darling]

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW!!! Like, a MILE from you! Which is so much the coolest part, and now I must make an edit, because I need to credit you with finding the damn thing for us in the first place.

You KNOW how awesome it will look once I get in there and throw some color around. Oh, yeah.

That wood molding is going to give me a little trouble. I've never color-coordinated a room with natural wood molding.

[bat_cheva]

Wood goes with everything. :) Especially if you do one of the rooms golden like you were talking about.

[naamah_darling]

Yeah, I'm looking at a palette of gold/amber, a sort of Victorian/Mucha/mossy but rich green, and burgundy. With lots of metallic gold, lots of natural wood, and lots and lots of bones. Obviously.

It'll take time, but the paint we can do before we move in, and paint is cheap.

[dubbage42]

I'm so glad to hear this and I am really looking forward to all of the details about your new home!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful news with all of us.

Deb

[becomingrooted]

I know the feeling. Fingers crossed!!!

[dearest_janna]

Yay for you, Naamah. You deserve this so much. I can't wait to see what you can do with those empty walls; white may fit anything, but murals can give a room a life of its own. But, good god, two weeks? I recommend luring friends over with the promise of food for packing hands. It may not be much, but we're pulling for you from Virginia, George the Betta and me.

[naamah_darling]

The bwahahahaha joke's on someone else part is that we don't HAVE to move out of this house in a hurry, so I'm relatively not-stressed about the time frame.

Not after moving HERE in one weekend in the middle of summer. I'm STILL mad at my mom about that. That fucking sucked, oh my god.

I may not be able to swing murals; the walls are textured. But I can do COLOR, DAMMIT. COLOR.

[bat_cheva]

You know, if you want to do murals, I bet you could fill in the textured part with spackle or something. It would be a hell of a lot of work, but probably easier than trying to remove the texture.

[naamah_darling]

I've thought about it, I have. I don't much like that kind of wall, and it's tempting to have someone come in and just smooth them over in a room or two. Skim-coating is not that hard to do if you, you know, pay someone else to do it.

The things I know I really want to do will actually still work on the textured walls, I think. And if they don't, there are other ways to get the same effect. Or I can have just one wall or area skim-coated so I can do it.

[deire]

Yay!