You remember these ugly-as-sin/oh-god-not-the-70s mirrors in our living room?



They're gone. We posted them on Craigslist and someone came and took them away the very next day. But they gave us some work to do before they went:



Much plastering, sanding, and painting later, it now looks like the rest of the wall:



And how did our paint colours turn out? Well, let's have some craptastic photos to give you a hint. Here's my dad in our newly painted living room:



Our blurry unfurnished bedroom:



The spare room/office which I can't find a decent angle to photograph from, so this will have to do:



Many thanks to my parents, Jonathan and Linda (and Ada!), Dan, Andrew, Rich, and Cat for helping us paint everything in ONE day!

And then... then we moved furniture in. And then we bought things off Craigslist. And then we went to IKEA. So, furniture. We bought an EXPEDIT bookcase from someone on Craigslist. Regular $170 plus tax, we got it for thirty bucks. Score! However, it was immediately claimed by Dune:



Most of the stuff in our dining room is IKEA. If you're curious: STEFAN chairs ($20!), INGO table (old, to be replaced eventually), EXPEDIT bookcase with LEKMAN boxes in bottom shelves, rug 'borrowed' from Chris's mom, cat chasing a toy, le Chat Noir poster, map of the metro system in Paris.



Our living room went from this:


to this:



LACK coffee table, POANG chair, couch from Sears, BILLY bookcase, LACK sidetable that I just painted from neon blue to dark green, Underwood typewriter from 1913, old rotary phone, rug from Pier 1 from Melissa, track lighting from Andrew.

We still need to install some things in the kitchen (including a breakfast bar!), finish unpacking, and then we're onto larger projects like saving for a washer/dryer unit and tearing out most of the bathroom and installing cabinets that are not falling apart. And then the kitchen. And then, someday, we will be finished and then we will have children and they will destroy it all, if the cats haven't gotten to it first. :)

Finally, a few photos from Christmas. My family decided to pose SAD and then HAPPY:




Chris showing off the "christmas card" I got from Melissa:



And last, but certainly not least, because I threatened to post this online and my father has specifically asked me why it's not up yet, my mother with the sexy underwear she received for Christmas:



C'est tout!