House Tour {Our Progress}

Well here she is in all her glory as of now. There is still so much to be done but it's coming along quite nicely! The previous post has our bedroom as of now. It still needs curtains hung and art work.

We will start with the LR which still needs some baseboards put up and some shelves. I'd also like to add some yellow in the future:

Dining Room. Needs some shelves hung and the console table cleared off (see the air compressor sitting on the floor there?):

Kitchen:

Playroom (It was clean but then Sadie wanted to mess it all up play):

Hallway. I made the Roman shade:

Half Bath (ya not much going on in there):

Main Bath (just needs our Dali prints hung):

Yes, we keep our macbook in the bathroom

Sadie's Room (still need to hang mirror over her dresser and get that all set up so there are no pictures of that wall yet):

 

and the Mudroom which is still a big work in progress:

For instance that ugly gold frame needs to be spray painted asap. Like the bench I stained?

This is where we hang our coats and place our shoes

Frog man toots his horn when we arrive...

 That's it for now. I'll post more as we update!

Sneek Peek

Here is our bedroom with nothing hung as of now. I have to find some art work for 2 frames, I have to hang curtains, and maybe find a new comforter and sham set.

It's been awhile

We have been so busy since we moved. I often think about making a quick entry but there is never time. I have a little bit of time now so I thought I'd fill you in on a few things. This is our 3rd weekend here and we are still not all unpacked. Pathetic! I know! We just haven't had the time. Josh has been working on getting our previous home ready for the Realtor to come and take pics and give us a selling price (fingers crossed it's a good amount). I've been studying my little butt off for my classes and playing with the baby lots! She's such a cutie. Starting to walk and stand on her own like a big girl.

Earlier in the week I plopped Sadie in the crib and went to work on her gallery wall. Originally I wanted to do embroidery hoops like this for her room:

But I really wanted to add in an old picture from my nursery when I was a youngin'. Here were a few options I came up with but wasn't too thrilled with:

There was another variation in there too but I don't have a picture of it anymore. Finally I decided on this (and I finally got it all up on the wall...on my own):

It has a little bit of everything I wanted and then some. By the time I was done and taking this picture Miss Sadie was like "get me out of here already". I'm very happy with it and every time we go into her room she points at it. So I guess she kind of likes it too!
Here was my process:

Step 1. Use tracing paper and cover area of hanging space on wall

Measure out and space where you want things to hang. This takes a lot of time and patience:

I started at the bottom with the shelf ledge, then I hung the ballet slippers in the center of the whole thing, then I hung my old picture and then I went from there with everything else. I used Drywall anchors and screws to hold almost everything up so it's good and secure. Once I had everything in place I added command velcro strips to the backs of everything for extra support. I don't think these puppies are going anywhere.

 Eventually I removed all the tape and tracing paper. I found this lamb print for free on pinterest it's from a blog called thehandmadehome.net:

I freaking love it! It reminds me of the time my mom and I took Sadie to see the Alpaca's at Hillside Farms and there were also sheep and one fell in love with her. Here, it melts my heart:

 Finished product again:

My next project is tackling the mudroom and cleaning up some very old picture frames we found in our old homes attic! Very exciting. Oh and the best news! We are going to Ikea this weekend! We are getting a dining room table and chairs and a few other things. I'll have to post and Ikea haul! It's free breakfast Saturday as well so I'm way too excited...

Moving week!

Yes, it's finally here! Moving week. Josh has been doing so much at the house in order to have it livable by the end of the week. I've been packing as much as I can. Here is what our current house looks like:

Boxes, boxes everywhere! We are going to be living with the bare minimum this week. It better not snow!

Here's what Josh has been working on:

Office floors are sanded just need some polyurethane:

 Living Room floors are sanded (this isn't a very good pic) just need poly (I helped sand a little bit in here):

 We finally found a floor sander to rent that isn't a drum sander. If you are refinishing your floors don't rent a drum sander. They are too rough on wooden floors (weird how everyone rents them for that purpose but trust me):

 Dining room. Love it:

I did some stuff too: Here is the bay window all finished and I went on a Christmas Tree Shoppes shopping extravaganza (that's where the cloche and glass vases came from, we're doing a big ol' terranium thing here):

The valance blinds are all hung back up and we are going to hang our curtain rods soon. Here is the mercury glass rod we found on clearance at Lowes & one for our kitchen too (clearance is my favorite word):

Microwave is installed!

We just need to finish the back splash and poly the floors. The family room is all painted but we discovered a leak...on one of our heating pipes. We had someone there yesterday working on it and he'll be back today. Whoever built this house did a lousy job. We constantly have to fix their mistakes.

I started cleaning the mudroom which looked like a huge dog went like this:

Only it didn't shake off water but mud. Eww. Painting has begun in that room and I hope to work on it more tonight after class.

We won't be blogging until after the move and when we have internet int he new house. See you soon!

Tile,tile,tile,grout,grout,grout,paint,paint,paint

The title says it all. Tile: Kitchen floor is done and the back splash is started and will be done by the end of this week! Counter tops are on and I love them!

Ohh so messy. Sorry.

That is not the counter top completed but look how pretty! Also notice our sink is back in and we have a new faucet.

Ya, that's my green coat just tossed aside in the hallway.

Ahhh loving it already. I had to leave to pick up the baby from my Mom's so I don't have more of what was done, but next time I will. It is not easy putting in little glass tiles like these. Using the tile nippers worked great but it's a ton of measuring and cutting (like around the window and outlets). I like the kitchen so much better now, even without the cabinets painted. It's much better than this:

 

 

BARF!

Guess what I was doing all day?! Painting.

 I was painting doors and closet doors with Behr ONE paint. Let me tell you something, it doesn't mean it will only take one coat. We have used this paint in several rooms (we like the coverage valspar no-VOC paint gives better) and they all needed about 3-4 coats but with the primer mixed in it should stick well. Oh, and yes I was painting on our newly painted dining room walls. My father in law thinks I'm crazy. I was very careful! This project needs to be done by Friday for floor sanding. Ya, good luck with that...

I left that paint in the paint tray and took a photo to remind me to tell you all about the most wonderful invention ever. This is a teflon paint tray. What does that mean? No cleaning! You just pour the extra paint back in the can and let the rest of it sit over night to dry and peel it off the next day (like those facial masks). I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. (sorry I have no idea who makes it but it's from Lowes or Home Depot).

I also made a mood board for the LR. I want to add a little POP of color so I chose yellow:

1. Existing blue grommet curtains
2. Yellow pattern I'm looking into getting to make/buy throw pillows
3. Existing blue throw pillows
4. Benjamin Moore Sandy Hook Gray. Wall paint color in LR/DR
5. Geometric print I'll be framing
6. Existing table lamps (ours are shapes slightly different with the bulbous part closer to the bottom)
7. Existing couch
8. Existing Armoire (it's very similar to this) will house smaller TV
9. existing chair (not really a fan of it but it was a gift)
10. Existing hardwood floors (once they are sanded and treated)
11. Existing blue leaf rug
12. Existing end table (similar to this)

Thoughts? I think I might like the little bit of pop.

We will have more to post later in the week for sure!