Another one done

After two more weeks of painting, I finally did it - I got the fourth and final bedroom completely painted.

Are you ready?  Here are the before and after pics:

The dark room before.  That's the closet door.

The former wall color, a matte gray/brown.

The second color strip, "corsage" is the new color.

I just love these changes that add so much more light to these 1-window rooms!

So much brighter!

Even at night, the room seems lighter.

I painted the closet too, which added a couple extra days to the job.

More closet - this house has huge closets for a home built in the '70s.

Looking into the bedroom from the yet unpainted brown hallway.

Tomorrow we will be packing up our things and leaving The House of Goodwill until after the holidays.  My emotions are mixed - I have come to love this house so much, and I'll miss my beautiful dog walks and daily porch reading outside (it's still not too cold for that yet most days).

When our foster placement finally left about a month ago, I was finally able to start working more regularly and productively.  I feel like I'm finally getting on a roll work-wise and am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It's a little painful stopping now when I feel like I'm just starting to really make progress again.

I will, however, enjoy the break from painting for a while.

The house here is still not settled; because so much of it is still to be painted I have yet to move in most of the furniture and make the additions that will make the house feel finished.  I want to go home and enjoy being in a finished, put-together house for the holidays.

For me, Thanksgiving and Christmas are dining room holidays, another reason I want to spend them at the home/house.  For all I love about The House of Goodwill, it does not have a dining room.

Over the next two months I am hoping to find some of the furniture pieces I'm still missing, namely bedside tables and side tables.  And I need a couple of mattresses for a day bed I bought.

I am so looking forward to having more time to do more thrifting and antiquing again!

I will continue to post over the holidays, so stay tuned for more...