If It's Not One Thing, It's Another

I recently won a Home Depot gift card from work, which is always awesome, but it came at a fantastic time because I am close to broke! I am close to broke, but really wanting to paint the living room. I knew that we needed another 5 gallon bucket of Kilz primer, something that I use in almost every single paint job I do...and I've got a ton left on the house! So, I spent the gift card on the primer, and figured that come pay day, I could buy the actual paint color for the room.

Today, I was working on moving all the furniture and boxes (yes, we still have not finished unpacking boxes. we're terrible.) into the center of the room to lay down drop clothes while Alan was working on another project. He came through the room and noticed that trap door in the floor (where an old furnace used to be) that covers the crawl space hole was warping. He lifted it up to investigate, and low and behold... there was a lake under our house. Fantastic.

So. We investigate and find that there in no longer much pipe working as a drain for the bath tub. There's a 6 inch section of pipe just completely gone, eaten away with age. And it's been that way for awhile. Every single time we shower or bathe, our water is running under the house.

And to top that (of course!) the pipe that brings in ALL of the water into the house has sprung a pretty big leak.

Amazing Neighbor came over and told us how to fix it and gave us plenty of advice on it. Now, does Alan want to get down in the 2 foot crawl space and work in the mud on something he hasn't ever done before, or do we call a plumber to replace all the piping? The answer to that question will be worked out in time. In the mean time, we have had to shut off the water to the house. Ugh. I'll keep you advised on how we make out in this situation.

And in case you were wondering, I didn't get to prime the living room for painting. I suppose I'll get to that later.

Things I Am Loving

Things that I would like to do/make/have:Don't want the baby, just the Zzzs....

I love this couch. So much.

These are fairly easy to make with thread, glue and balloons.

We're planning on having a carpenter friend build some bookshelves into our spare bedroom. This would be so great.

Love the colorful pillows on the white couch.

I love gallery style hung pictures.

Our kitchen table needs a coat of paint. I may work chalkboard paint into it.

Again, I love gallery hung pictures.

Well, this one speaks for itself. Amazing.

I just really like the mix of casual jeans with dressy-ish cardigan.

Gallery, much?

What a great entry way.