Chip It up - A fun tool

Last night, I was watching HGTV Design Star and fell in love with the blue color that Britney used in her room challenge.  The problem is, I wrote the show and found out that the paint color used is only sold in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Lebanon and a few other countries.  That's nowhere near to us here in Washington state.  I decided to try the Sherwin Williams tool "Chip it".  http://letschipit.com/  It's a tool you can add to your browser tool bar (Like the Pin it button).   This is what it created - with a couple options of colors with the SW paint #. I'm excited to go see them at the store and see if it lives up to what I like on the tv.  I'm excited to keep using the chip it tool on all the houzz.com pictures I love too.  

Month 2: Living in construction

We've had the house for two months.  The craziness has continued.  We now have all new plumbing.  New electrical wires are throughout the walls. We even have a new water heater.  The latest discovery of which we're still trying to figure out how to take care of:  We have carpenter ants.  They are living in our ceiling between the ceiling and the roof.  Unfortunately, when the new roof was installed, they didn't dry it out - so we have carpenter ants living in a moist environment and being able to burrow into the wood.  We've looked up lots of methods and companies.  I will dedicate a blog posting to the following things we've learned:
1. Installing drywall
2. Mudding and Taping/sanding
3. Killing ants and spiders
4. Plumbing for old houses
5. Choosing a hot heater
6. Landscaping to deter bugs
7. Cleaning a flat roof
8. Choosing a Dehumidifier/ Portable AC Unit
9. Recipes for living without a kitchen
10. Drywall texture
11. Refacing a brick fireplace
12. Gravel driveways
13. Killing weeds
14. Blackberry bushes
15. salesmen and windows



The lessons are coming everyday. The biggest thing I've learned from the reno of this house is that the lessons are plentiful and there is always something to figure out.  The hardest thing about this blog is having the energy to write about the lessons learned.