The end is just another beginning in disguise

Over the weekend we had some exciting developments! We closed on our house!=0) Of course, closing on the house meant the beginning of several weeks of frantic work beginning. First thing Monday morning, Lee had his hired help in the house and tearing up floor boards to fix the sinking floor in the corner of the family room. The house is built on blue clay (very common for the area) which has a tendency to expand over time if not kept dry. Not a problem, as long as, you are willing to build your house in a pier system. A pier system would kinda be like a house you would find on the coast that is built on stilts, the only difference being it would be set deep under ground so that your house is at ground level. The house is on one of these pier systems, the only problem is that one of the previous owners did not realize that you have to take precautions with the soil and did not make sure to keep water off of the foundation. The result being the corner of the family room sank a bit and the floor boards need to rehung and leveled and the yard needs to be landscaped with catch basins and skirting around the foundation to keep the water off the foundation and prevent any further movement.
Along with some structural work that is being accomplished, the entire house has to be painted and a good portion of it will be re floored as well. The house has some of the most ugly faux-painting I have ever seen in my life, dark brown and tan and not done well either! The walls seem to close in on you, but once we get done it will a much more appealing colors of light green for the master suite (Ocean Bath and Rowboat), a golden orange/yellow (Rift) for the family room and most of Lee's office and the window wall in the formal living room. The halls, the entry and the rest of the formal living room will be lighter version of the orange/yellow (a lot lighter) the color being Monologue.=0) Adree's room is a grayish purple and it will be painted a light yellow/green (Lemon Thyme) and the kids bathroom will be painted a light robin's egg blue (Robin). I know it's hard to tell on colors without pictures, but as soon as we get it all done we, I will post pictures! I will also post pictures of the before stuff too as soon as I get Lee to upload them from his camera. My computer doesn't have enough R.A.M. to support his silly camera. Why he didn't just take my camera with him so, I could do this all at once is beyond me!
Stay tuned for pictures and we'll keep on plugging along so that we can enjoy our new house together! Yippee! =0)