house projects

My husband, Matt, is a high school teacher (and a darned good one). One result of this is that he has most of the summer off and becomes subject to HOUSE PROJECTS. Being that we live in an old house, the projects never end. For this summer his three projects were:

1. Paint the outside of the house (trim, windows, eaves, foundation etc.)
2. Re-do the bathroom (replacing the vanity, mirror, and paint)
3. Install lighting over the living room mantle

As of now, he has finished #1, and is very close to being totally done with #2. I don't know if he will be able to finish #3 before the school year starts but he has often surprised me with his ingenuity in the past and whose not to say he might do it again.

He painted the bathroom yesterday in a surprise color. We had been looking for a week or two at paint samples trying to decide what would complement the "eagle gray" eighties tile in our bathroom. Would it be yellow? off-white? greenish? Nothing seemed to work and the beautiful golden yellow we had thought would work ended up looking like puke and casting a sickly hue on any person who dared look in the mirror. So yesterday he called me and said that he had painted the bathroom, that it looked awesome, and that he would wait until I got home so I could find our for myself what mystery color he had chosen---EGGPLANT! And it does look awesome. I will post a picture of the bathroom when all the finishing touches are done so you can see for yourself. For now, here are before and after pictures of our house.