Before & After

When we began to look at homes and stumbled across the one we settled on, one of the first things I knew I wanted to do with it was paint the walls.  We bought a foreclosed home, and the only thing that really (physically) showed us it was a "foreclosure" was the wall damage.  It wasn't anything crazy bad, but the construction white walls were a little beat up with scattered black marks in random places and tiny holes here and there from where they moved the furniture down the stairs.  (Oh, and the rotating plate in the microwave wasn't there...minor, right? Except that it costs $80 and we've yet to shell that out to replace it! Ha.)  Anyway, almost two years later and we finally painted! It's amazing what a paint job can do.  Our house feels much warmer.  We got all the common areas professionally painted because of the high walls and some awkward areas.  We will eventually do the bedrooms, dining room, and bathrooms ourselves.