The Johnston Family

The Johnston Family

Friday, July 11, 2008

Looking at paint

So this happened a couple weeks ago, and I've been meaning to write about it. We are no longer allowed to go look at paint at Home Depot. It's really not what you think, we get all our paint at Home Depot as we our sold on Behr paint(it's amazing!)So we went to home depot to color match paint to the purple and yellow pieces of the adorable crib quilt my mother made for the nursery. We weren't going to buy it yet just match colors, and help me come to terms with the yellow(painting in yellow scares me, even if it's just a little bit) Anyway...so we get to home depot and notice they have the Santa Fe doors we put in down stairs, for only $50!(they're originally around $75) we were already planning on replacing the doors upstairs, and at that price we couldn't resist, so when they were putting together the order they told us that we qualified for a 6 months no interest home depot card, and we'd get %10 off our purchase. Lets just say it snowballed from there.(we hate credit cards, but as the money was already set aside, and we could get an extra %10 off, we figured why not save more money) So we went in to LOOK at paint, and a couple hours later had on will call(as we couldn't fit it all in the pilot) 5 doors, one big low E window(that we got for the price of the non low E window) all our molding and casing, 4 cans of paint(which we got %10 0ff, and $20 back) and 8 sheets of drywall. I think that's it. So needless to say, no more going to look for paint!! It's turned out to be a GREAT deal, we saved a lot, and Tony(and help)have been able to do a lot of work upstairs. We have 3 doors replaced(frames and all), the new window is in, and looks great! Tony's wired for a ceiling light in the 2nd bedroom, and just last night Tony, his dad and brother in law Johnny, put up most of the drywall on the ceiling! It's really coming along! And Tony's feeling really good as he's ahead of schedule! I'm thrilled cause it puts me that much closer to actually being able to start putting the nursery together, and best of all start decorating!!(oh and get the rest of the house back, as it's all a construction zone right now) We have construction pics I'll try and get posted soon.

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