moving mess??

Ok so we are moved in really we are but if you would see my freshly painted back room it looks like a disaster area.. for one day it looked spectacular! it was clean i even cleaned the carpet again (Awww to the carpet cleaner how did i ever live with out you!) then to try to not loose momentum i cleared out the living room that in the back corner had boxes of books and things i refused to put in their perminant spot because i knew i was painting.. what i didn't realize is that how much crud that little corner held! and there are no un used corners in the back room well there is but it's right in front of the closet i use as extra pantry storage so i knew i'd be moving it all every time i needed paper towels or what ever.. so here are some pic's of my demolition zone.. we actually decided to put on an "orange peel" texture because these walls have a million layers of wall paper on top of plaster so we are just going along and painting over again but it needed something to kind of mask all the 85+ years of age these old walls have.. i also decided after hasseling with the caked on mess of the crown molding in the back room that i'd pull it all down in the living room and start over.. Ben was terrified (frankley i was a little too but if i told him he'd never let me do it!) i'm not completely done getting it all down but it's actually coming down pretty easily and it's amazing how much you learn when you see just 4 layers of paper (just under the molding.. there has to be at least 4 more layers where the paint starts).. i wish i could say it was quant vintage paper but it's dang UGLY!!! and it did tare up the wall behind it in some places but i think the new molding will cover it up with out much hassel (famous last words hua!) so i'm hoping to get the texture done tomorrow and hopefully get the first coat up (we are painting yellow so it might take a few coats!) then of coarse there is still the window trim to paint.. THE BAIN OF MY Painting experience is TRIM painting.. but i did spring for the better paint so hopefully it might go on a little easier than the back room (lets hope!) I thought about jut leaving whats up but it's a flat dirty white (i'm sure thats wasn't the name of the paint the previous owners decided to put up but it was a rental so it's cheep flat not holding up AT ALL DIRTY WHITE!) so it wasn't an option..

Oh yea i've discovered the trick to posting pictures.. i have to take my camera from 12 MP to 3 so who knows if this will make me be able to post more pictures but i'm not usually taking pictures just for the blog it's usually for my obsession of scrapbooking (which i am WAY behind on btw.. for those who know me you know its SHOCKING) so i'll have to remember to turn it down for a few shots of what i take.. and also turn it back up (that will probably be more problematic)..