(if you haven’t read it…please read previous post first…this one will make much more sense. *wink*)

First I want to say thank you to all of you for your thoughts! It helps so much to get some outside perspective. *smile*

So…just to answer a few questions and provide a little more information…

re: carpet…there will be no more carpet downstairs. We are putting the wood floor from the back door to the front door. There will still be carpet going up the stairs and everywhere on the 2nd floor.

re: kitchen cabinets and stair railing…Both of these will be painted white. We would really like to do all of the painting before we put the floors in (so we don’t end up with paint spills on it) but if we can’t figure out the wall color soon, we’ll probably do the floors and “wait and see” on the paint.

Thanks again for the opinions!! Keep ’em coming!