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| This may not be entirely true. |
Home is where the
heart is…or in our case where all the kids, hockey bags, and smelly gear
can fit and our old house was just not cutting it anymore. Veronica and I had been searching during the
summer for a possible solution to the fact we had outgrown our home in the four
years we had lived there, but we struck out at every turn. On a whim I was sent to look at a house that
I was not impressed by at all – the amount of work it would need to make it a
home for me was more than I cared to take on.
However, Veronica saw it and was ready to move. The size was a major selling point not to
mention a family room with a fireplace, and 5 nice sized bedrooms the smallest
being larger than any of the room at the old house.
At that point I was set off on a mission, a mission to paint
and get the house ready in 2 weeks for the big move. Every wall in the house was the exact same
color – a cross between honey and burlap so not something we could live with or
very long at all. I started in the
hockey boys’ bedrooms – the first I was out to be wild and crazy so I painted
two of the walls orange and two slate grey walls with black and white trim
throughout the room. Cloudya still holds
to the fact that the grey is actually lavender – she may be right but I keep
telling myself it is grey and someday I will convince everyone that I am right. Next came the bedroom that one day will
hopefully be a guest bedroom leaving the walls the same color I added vertical
striping in blue. The stripes started as
something I thought would be cool but in the end I realized my yard stick was
not straight and I had to make some adjustments adding to the work load.
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| Kaiden's bed Avs and Sharkstuff everywhere |
The kids’ rooms became my next task Kaiden’s was easy enough
as he wanted his room to look the exact same way it had before so the Colorado Avalanche
bedroom was reborn. Shaded ice took on
the wall color and two wide stripes in maroon and blue blocking in by black
stripes made of hockey tape. Decorations
were added and a hockey bedroom any Avs Fan can be proud of came to life.
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| Cloudya's overly colorful room |
Now if you know Cloudya she is all girl and
totally wild when it comes to what she wants – so her room looks somewhat like
a fairy attacked a paint store. She has
walls painted purple, green, and a Caribbean blue with everything trimmed out
in pink accents – like I said a lot of color.
There is no doubt the room belongs to a princess – just you would never
know it is a HOCKEY PRINCESS.
While I love painting by that point I was kind of beat up and
running out of time; packing during the day, painting and unpacking at night
takes a lot out of you. The only rooms
that have been painted since the move is the Family Room and entrance of the
house, both Veronica has picked some very bold colors. A deep purple for the Family Room and a
nautical blue for the entrance into the house, making both of these rooms my
favorite. As time moves I am working on
pieces here and there and adding new décor to the house in every room and I
will eventually be done.
Veronica was able to see something more than I had, which is
often the case as I am more of a realist.
The house is coming together and everyone can actually spread out and have
a bit of space which is by far the most important thing. I have my fingers crossed that we don’t
outgrow this house too soon. Besides if we do the poor soul that moves in here
will never get the stench of hockey bags out of the garage no matter what they
do – I know I have tried.
