Port Townsend, Part II (by Mary)

  Wow!  So much has happened.  Most of it too boring to go into details about.  Most importantly, we made it to Washington all in one piece, and by we, I mean Missy, Molly, my Dad, and myself.

  We were greeted by many a'neighbor this morning, so many people curious as to what the new kids on the block will decide to paint their house.  The painters have officially finished all their grinding and taping and are ready to start priming.  Andy has finished all the upstairs flooring, including taking care of a major issue involving the removal of the carpet in the upstairs hallway (more on that later).

  For now, we've been taking some much needed rest (Missy & John are currently napping upstairs).  I've been assessing what I'd like to tackle first, and Molly took off to Vancouver to visit some friends (returning in a couple days to help paint the dining room).  Missy has packed all kinds of new light fixtures and small furniture pieces, like tables and chairs which we unloaded this morning.  Which is a nice place to start when moving considering we only had 1 table up here and it's being used for our computer at the moment.  Although as my Dad and I have discovered, empty boxes make for great tables too!  So as of right now, I've been shifting through boxes and finding out what exactly needs doing.

  Also arriving with Missy was their growing collection of books regarding renovating and decorating Victorians.

  The books have been great inspirations for color choices, not only for the interior but for the exterior as well.  Turns out, Missy loved the paint-job on the upstairs room (labeled Bedroom 2, with the Behr Fossil Butte, Quiet Veranda, and Japanese Maple) so much that she immediately thought of it as a great color choices for the outside.  Which, after I'd painted had similar thoughts.  I loved the tri-color theme, it's one of the favorite rooms in the house.  So, after a meeting with the painter regarding the colors, it has been pretty much ironed out that the main body with be a dark greenish/yellowy ocher color (Fossil Butte), with a lighter ocher for the top (Beachwalk), and a dark red/brown for trim (Deep Cherrywood).  We were all in unison on the color choices for once, including the painter...which is a big deal, as he paints old Victorians often and has seen many of bad choices and "What were we thinking?!" moments.

  Oddly enough, one of the books my Dad had purchased recently through amazon regarding old Vics actually has our exact model inside.  Pretty neat.

^ That's us!  

Design No.186, from D.S. Hopkins, Late Victorian House Designs