Home Improvements

We've been in our house about 6 months and we're slowly making big and little improvements.  First we gave the whole place a good cleaning and replaced some of the carpet.  We've put up blinds in all the windows and got a lot of our pictures hung up.  Recently we've started painting all the ceilings white.  Originally they were the same brown color as the walls throughout the entire house.  We've nicknamed our house the brown house.  Literally everything inside and out was brown, even the lawn.  Painting the ceilings has proven to be a little more labor intensive then we were expecting.  We've had to prime and paint with multiple coats to cover the brown paint.  We've also been working on fixing the brown lawn.  We've rotatilled the back yard and removed all the old sod.  A coworker of Tony's cut up sod from his yard that we laid down in our yard.  Unfortunately we only had enough to cover a little less than half of our back yard.  Hopefully we'll be able to get more sod to at least finish the back yard and we'll seed the front yard if we need to.  We purchased a lawn mower last weekend for our soon to be luscious green yard.  We also replaced the light fixtures in all 3 of our bathrooms this week.  This was an unplanned project but the fixtures were on clearance at Lowe's and we couldn't pass up the good deal.  They look so nice and will be even better after we repair the huge holes left in the wall behind the old light fixtures.  You gotta love contractors.  If you can't see the hole then it's not there, right?  Our next big undertaking will be to paint the exterior of our house.  This is going to be another labor intensive job, but it'll be worth it.  We're hoping to replace the siding above the gable of our garage to a shake siding and paint it and the front door a contrasting color to the rest of the house to give some interest.  We have really been working hard on our home, but we enjoy it.  There is something so gratifying about it all.