Green is My New Favorite Color, a “Greenover” Confession

I have a confession. I’ve withheld from blogging about an upcoming home renovation for fear that “it seemed too good to be true” and the project would fall apart. Now I think it’s safe to write about it. Only now it still seems a bit too good to be true, and I’m also concerned about my house falling apart. Judge the pictures for yourself. Things at my home are wild.

So here’s the deal. Someone, somewhere in the world wide web found my blog and recommended it to Green Works (the plant-based line of Clorox cleaning products), who was looking to do a “greenover” with HGTV designer Carter Oosterhouse for a home in Charlotte. In asking about why I was picked for such a project I battered the PR guy with these questions: “Did you pick me because I’m such a witty writer?”, his answer, “No.” I asked, “Is it because you thought my family was undeniably perfect and movie-star ready?” Answer, “Uh, that wasn’t the first thing that came to mind.” The guy from Green Works came clean. We fit in the box. Live in the South (check), expecting baby (check), and experience allergies (check). Guess it’s the first time I’ve ever been so glad to so neatly fit in a box.

For the past two weeks, I’ve been a cleaning mad woman. Call it nesting, call it HGTV designers visiting my house, call it what you will, but I’ve wiped down my refrigerator, swept underneath rugs, had the house pressure-washed, you name it. By the time the crew was to descend upon my house at 10:00 am on Monday morning, my house had never been cleaner. By 10:05, my house was being taken apart, by 10:30 I wasn’t sure I was still standing in my own house. Everything had been relocated to make way for enormous production equipment, giant camera lights, caterers, stylists, and a crew of no less than 30 people to produce and do the construction for the Green Works webisodes.

The goal of this week’s Harding Family Greenover is to convert our guest room into a nursery and to convert our current bonus room into an exercise, play, and guest room. I’m sure it’s going to be a wonderful addition to our home. Both my husband and I are excited to see what eco-friendly ideas they will come up. I’m also sure a cleaning fairy will come and restore my house to some semblance of normalcy once complete. The fact that all of this will be done within a week is a miracle.

I promise to share pictures and web links with you all as I get them, so you can see the progress (or current destruction) as we go. Oh, and ladies? Be sure to check out the the footage of carpenter/designer Carter Oosterhouse, who, I must admit, isn’t terrible to look at. My son also thinks he makes a great playmate at the train table. Anyone wanna play Thomas?

*Photos in today’s blog entry are courtesy of WCNC. For more pictures of the production crews, the house, and rooms to be converted, feel free to visit the piece produced by WCNC: http://www.wcnc.com/home/HGTV-filming-in-Charlotte-114149024.html

**I have been asked to state that the renovations taken place in my home are being paid for by Green Works. Sadly, Baby #2 would not be getting the complete nursery and playroom overhaul if we had to do this all ourselves. Thank you Green Works and everyone else that is participating in our home renovation!