An Anniversary

As of today, Cory and I have been living in our condo for exactly one month. And we've made progress. Really, we have. Despite the fact that we're still living out of boxes, that I still can't find my favorite pair of pants, and that our kitchen has more tools in it right now than a junior high school metal shop classroom... we really are making progress.

I have evidence to support this claim.

As promised, we took pictures of the "before" condition of our condo. Ready?

So, here we are. The front door. You enter our condo from a fenced-in patio area. You may notice the "artwork" on the outside of our patio. I think I mentioned that the previous owner was an artist. And a pirate. Seriously.

The little palm tree painting on the left side of the door says "Island Time Living" next to it.

The painting to the right of the door is of the state of Florida, a big tequila bottle, along with some Sammy Hagar-inspired phrases like "Mas Tequila" and "Cabo Wabo."

Classy.

We haven't had an opportunity to do anything with the outside yet, other than filling the patio with our stuff. So, yeah, it still looks like that.

So, now we've stepped inside. This is the front hallway (you can see a little of it from the photo above). No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. Those are orange walls, pink mouldings, a blue door-- and a teal closet door (and teal around the window frame, too, though it's hard to see in these pictures). And yes, the ceiling is also painted orange. All of the paint they used was semi-gloss... so if the colors weren't vibrant enough on their own, the walls also shine.

By the way, the previous owners were kind enough to leave us all their leftover paint. So we have enough cans of these colors to repaint much of the condo.

We opted to go to Home Depot and pick out our own colors instead.

Anyway, the front hallway doesn't look like that any more, which is good, because I got stressed out the moment I walked into the front door. We haven't given it a total renovation, but it's about 2oo percent better than it was.

Here it is... a work in progress.

I actually bought the paint color ("Desert Camel") For the spare bedroom, but it was way too gold when I put it on the wall. It doesn't look too bad in the hallway, though... and it apparently looks nice in photos.

Obviously, there's still plenty of work to be done. The linoleum is peeling off of the floor (we've already picked out some sweet-looking terra cotta tile at Home Depot). And obviously, we need to change the door color. There's still pink paint around the doorframe-- and teal paint around the window. We'll fix it eventually.

I'm just glad it isn't orange any more.

Next, a sneak peek at the living room. Stay tuned.