09 June, 2009

workin for the weekend


well, we had quite the day yesterday. we didn't get to sleep until almost 5:00 in the morning.

but we got a lot done.

let me show you.


we packed up the car to take a few things over and get a jump on moving. (btw, levi has never worked for ups.)


we reveled in the glory of our new home for a bit.


we discovered how badly the hardwood floors need a good scrubbing and searched for an internet connection. alas, there wasn't one. hopefully, it won't take too long to get it hooked up.


we stopped at costco for lunch on the way to home depot.


grabbed a few odds and ends before heading to the paint department to grab samples of our paint choices.


i made one last final plea for yellow.


it worked! levi, you're my favorite person in the whole wide world!! i consider this part of my birthday present.


we painted the samples on the walls...i went a little overboard with my sample.

we decided against the retro avocado. it was too brown/yellow when we got it on the wall. it looked kind of like the contents of a diaper. we went with rolling hills instead, and it is gorgeous. the yellow in our dining "room" is macaw, and we stuck with anonymous and dragon fruit for the bedroom. can i please tell you how much i love paint color names?? they're fantastic. they make the entire experience so much more fun.

i took a couple extra photos of the place to be nice.


this is the kitchen. we have a back door! the top comes opens. isn't it adorable?? levi wants to put a shelf on the bottom half of the door for cooling pies. i guess i'll be making more pies living here! haha!


this is the bedroom and anonymous on the walls.


i put our names on the mailbox! for some reason, this was very exciting for me. this is the front.


this is the inside.

now here's where we got a little crazy. we were so pumped on painting that we decided to go back to home depot after dinner to buy our paint and get started that very evening.

we left at 4:00 in the morning.


the living room probably needs one more coat to make it perfect.


the dining "room" should be done. i am so excited about this little nook. i can't help but smile every time i see it. we want to get a mini glittering chandelier and hang it from the center of the dining room's little ceiling. it's going to be amazing.


levi didn't do all of the painting, but he did do all of the edging. he's much better at it than i am.

so today, we're going to paint the bedroom, touch up everything else, clean, and pack some more. we'll probably be done in time to watch the laker game. woo!

comments:

Kimberly Julie said...

It looks like y'all had so much fun! Painting is exhausting but so rewarding... I can't wait to see more of your exciting new place! :)

Anonymous said...

the flat looks great! love the colors you picked! :)
i'm sure you're going to turn into a wonderful place.
love
xxx

ali said...

i love love love your paint choices! your blog makes my day at work 10 times happier :)

Brooke said...

O how I love thee. Lol. That was random but I have always wanted to say that.

I love the paint colors! I can't wait to see it all finished! Yellow will be heading over to my new house... along with Mr.grey or is it gray. I always get confused.

:)

Adele said...

sooooo beautiful!! (: I can't wait to see MORE. I'm soo happy you got to paint that little corner a cheery yellow (: please decorate asap..I'm living my home furnishing dream vicariously through you (: xx ps: I'm dropping something off in the mail tml!

Unknown said...

those colors are AMAZING! good luck with the rest of your move!

Diandra said...

Too, too cute! And, the dutch door in the kitchen?! So envious... I have to agree with Ali, your blog definitely makes work a little happier.

Anonymous said...

i love everything. but mostly the yellow.

BRANDI MILNE said...

Raaaaagggghhhhhrrrrr!!! little lady, you and I are neighbors...kinda!! So good to find someone soo close to me, we should definately be frends!! You two are beautiful by the way, nice job with the eventful move in day!! Congrats!! Yellows lookin hot!! :) Kiss!

katie diana said...

ahhhh! I'm so excited about the new place. It is fabulous! :) I love, love, love the kitchen door. AND the names of crayons, paint, nail polish and lipsticks make me so happy. i used to think i'd be a good namer of crayola crayons. :) Hope you got my email!!

carly mary said...

this looks SO CUTE.
ah you guys are aadorable. eeep!

AngelaBeth said...

Things I especially like about this post: the yellow!, your handwriting, the nook, and that you guys are Lakers fans!! GO LAKERS! :)

chloejessica said...

LOVE your new place! And especially love the color of your living room! Its all looking great! :)

chloejessica said...

LOVE your new place! And especially love the color of your living room! Its all looking great! :)

Valerie said...

just reading that made me tired!!!

so excited for your new space. I love the yellow too :)

erin said...

wahoo! this makes me so excited to move in august!!! love the paint!

Anonymous said...

SO cute!! I love the yellow, it's so cheery!

Laura said...

I LOVE IT! It makes me soooo excited for you and so excited for me! I can't wait to have my own apartment with my Mr A.
The yellow looks so much like my old bedroom back home - dynamite yellow and fuchsia.

So excited for you!

teamBoo said...

from green shag to hardwood??

...mooovin' on up! so happy for you.

Ali said...

You two are too much. I LOVE the paint colors! And the place looks so cute! I can't take it!!!

brooke said...

ooohh....i love the fabulous paint colors...and uhh...a back door like that is a REQUIREMENT a complete and total mandatory requirement for our next home...so stinkin cute!

Diana said...

yellow is one of my favorite colors and i love the colors you chose!

that pic of you and levi laying down together is so cute!

R.C. said...

Soooo cute and I love the cheery colors you guys picked!!! Adorable you two!!!

our little love nest said...

You are amazing, I tell you. I would be lucky to get an ounce of that done in a day. Love all of your colour choices. I want to see it all in person! It looks great and you look cute even through all that...wow! too adorable! xo

Chelsea said...

i love love love all of it!! such a cute place! + your paint choices are amazing. i too am a sucker for paint names. congratulations!!!

Ashley said...

i love love love the color choices! I wish I could paint the walls in my apartment... Oh well.

Good luck with the rest of the move!

Cherish Stockdale said...

wow it looks so good! How exciting I can't wait to see the finished product! I am so happy for you guys!!

You Are My Fave said...

I love the hardwood floors. And the yellow is punchy. Thank goodness Levi gave in.

Emie said...

Jasmine it is absolutely fabulous! :)
I love the color choices.
So very happy for you two and your new home.
Good luck with everything tonight.

Jessica said...

Yay! How exciting!
The colors look bright and cheerful.
I can't wait to see how you set the place up.

paddle to shore said...

WOW- the apartment looks amazing!
And VERRRYYYY good job with adding your name on the mailbox. This will help the letter carrier VERY VERY much [I know this due to being a letter carrier] ...ya, I'm a big dork!

Tina Tarnoff said...

Oh, you are having such fun! I love the colors you picked. The place is going to be so bright and wonderful - just like you! And I think that "nook" is the funniest word ever. xoxo

Jillian said...

So many things about this post I love that I can't decide where to start. Your new place looks so cute and the wood floors are gorgeous. The dutch door in your kitchen is darling; I've always wanted one. Your man's idea of putting a shelf up for cooling pies is so cute. Lastly, love your idea to put a crystal chandelier in your dining nook. I think it will look great! I've been hunting for one myself and I saw a few cute ones at Ikea that weren't too expensive. So excited for you!

Emmy said...

LOVE it! So cute! That door is awesome!! I want a door like that in my house... just something so old fashioned and romantic about it.

Vintage Romance Style said...

love the yellow!

Jessica @ Mason Jar Bride said...

Yay!!! So excited for you two. LOVE the yellow. And go Lakers!! 1 minute left in the game... I'm crossing my fingers for them!

Anonymous said...

I love that you post pictures everyday! They're always so lovely! I really like the mailbox one today :) So cute!

Jessica O'Brien said...

Names on the mailbox excitement? Dude, I made an entire scrapbook page out of this event: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=743264

:)

Euna said...

I LOVE painting a new house. It has always been a fond childhood memory of mine since I moved about a dozen times. Don't you just love the fresh paint-in-new-home smell?

Desiree said...

Oooh la la!
The floors! The paint!

It's all just so fab -- can't wait to see it all in its finished glory!

Peace.

Raechel said...

Love the yellow! from your pictures it looks to be the exact color I painted our bedroom but I dont remeber the color name..shoot! The place is adorable! I love wood floors and nooks and crannies of old homes.

{quixotic.elizabeth} said...

Wow! You two are busy! I love the chandelier idea! That will look adorable - - AND I love the dutch door! So cute! Lucky, lucky you. I think you two have earned a cute place!!

William Street Store said...

The colours you have chosen are so gorgeous!! And seem to definitely fit your personality! love them!

I just adore making home ♥

Life Abroad said...

Congratulations on your new apartment and the move! I love the yellow in the little nook, so cute for a dining room. Can't wait to see the finished product!

becks said...

I cant wait to see dragonfruit! I love the shot of both of you lying on the floor. You both look so satisfied with all that hard labour:)

Mandy said...

Okay ummm....
Where can I get a home like this so I can paint my own yellow wall?

Love love love it.

laura said...

you mean the magic game!? :) sorry i am from florida :)

The Lewicutt's said...

LOVE your paint choices! Be happy your walls were white to start. Ours were some pretty outrageous colors. We had to do two coats of primer, plus two coats of actual paint to get the walls how we wanted them. BUT, it was well worth it. I love color.

Unknown said...

I love it!! Congrats on the new place!

Elise Bass said...

Awww, I'm so happy for you guys. That is the best feeling, moving into your new place and making it "YOURS"! Congratulations. Have you checked Target or Walmart for chandiliers for your dining room nook? They have really cute ones for pretty inexpensive!! Congrats again and enjoy! :P)

Viewtiful_Justin said...

You two are too cute! And Levi would make one heck of a hot UPS worker. :-P

I love the green color more than I can say. Wow! I can't wait to be able to paint our living space...we rent, so we can't know the joy of that.

stephanie said...

Oh my goodness. Your new home looks amazing! I'm so so happy for you. And your paint colors are perfect :)

Brooke said...

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Jenn said...

{heart} the yellow!! My living room is 'butter'...but your yellow reminds me of my aunt. When I was a kid my uncle found a 50 gallon drum of the paint they use for the stripe down the center of a road...my auntie painted her kitchen that yellow...it was lovely! yellow was my fav color as a kid!

jdavissquared said...

You guys are so cute, and I love the colors you chose! Isn't it amazing the rush of energy you get when you're getting a new home? So very exciting! I'm happy for you guys.

e$ said...

i love it! your new place looks adorable! i wanted to paint fun colors in our new place, but it's mostly brick walls. the places that have dry wall had already been done for me... so instead i just have to daydream...

BonBon Rose Girls Kristin said...

LOVE the yellow. When we bought our house last year I was hugely pregnant and I hated the color of every room so the hubs had to paint everything while I "supervised." Oh and your floors are gorgeous!

Maddie said...

it's looking super cute!! i can't wait to see it all done :) i LOVE the colors!

Sara said...

Love love love the room color. My room is yellow too!

-Sara
the-poet-girl.blogspot.com

Teri said...

What an absolutely adorable place you have. I can see why you are so excited.

You should enlarge the second photo of the two of you on the floor. That would make such a cool "We love our home" portrait.

iheartkiwi said...

you have hardwood floors! so jealous. i am totally trying to talk kiwi into letting me paint our bedroom a cool grey... anonymous would be perfect! maybe he will give in like levi.

keep us posted on all the wonderful home updates!

indie said...

Looks fantastic, Jas! Love how you wrote your names on the mailbox. Can't wait to see the finished product. :))

p.s. SO disappointed in our boys last night! That steal by Pietrus sealed our fate for that game. On to Game #4! Let's get it down.

indie said...

By the way, where'd you get the shirt you're wearing in these pics? It looks exactly like the one I've got on with now, got mine from Gilly Hicks. Mmm...so soft!

carla thorup said...

oh yay for painting! we have been doing it every single night this week. we haven't even gotten to the fun part of colors because we are doing ceilings and primer on every inch of the house first! it looks like an adorable place though... and i just lust after real hard wood floors. fun!

____j said...

this all looks sooo cute!

Anonymous said...

I love the green color you guys chose! That Costco pizza picture made me laugh. My boyfriend and I always used to go to Costco for pizza and hotdogs as a date. It was lame, but we always loved it. Good memories!

Anonymous said...

there must be some sort of deal between costco and the home depot because every town I've ever lived in has always had them both in the same shopping center! in hawaii there is this rule that starbucks must be next to jamba juices (jamba jai? plural?) because its some sort of beverage monopoly.

just thought you should know! oh and the human/dancer post made me giggle out loud. rare!

kathleen said...

I LOVE your new place... My old lake apartment had a door like that and I was truly in love with it! I also adore all the colors you chose... I'm so happy for your new place. Hooray! :)

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