We finally got curtains for our back door. The sun beats in through this window and it makes perfect sense to have curtains, but for some reason I always thought curtains would make this area look messy and crowded. Turns out to be the opposite! Now that we have the curtains up the room actually looks more finished. I am so happy we decided on a pattern too, at first we were going to go with a solid grey and luckily the store was out so we tried this pattern. … [Read more...] about New Curtains
BEFORE and AFTER
Rocking Chair
Months ago I bought a rocking chair for Emmett at a swap meet that I was planning on re doing. Then at least a month ago I bought the material to cover the chair, and then as most projects go I did nothing. I had too many art projects going on so the chair went to the end of the list. About a week before Christmas I finished all of my art I had to do so I pulled out my sewing machine. Before: After: I really like the way it turned out, I did away with … [Read more...] about Rocking Chair
Living Room Re-Do
My mom and I turned her dinning room into a living room. Back when I lived at home the room connected to our kitchen was our only living room, after living cramped in a small living room forever my parents decided to use our formal living room at the front of the house for the everyday living room and made the room off the kitchen into a formal dinning room. The only draw back to this is they have the kitchen dinning room right next to the formal dinning, so there are literally 2 … [Read more...] about Living Room Re-Do
The Closet
Ever since we moved in here I have wanted to re do this closet. Before we moved in we had a great idea to turn this whole side of the room into a closet, but turned out we just didn't need a closet that big and I like the room being large. As you can see in these photos my closet had no doors, and that is because they were so large and horrible they were the first thing to go. They were sliding doors and there were 3 of them, but you could only open one at a time, soo you … [Read more...] about The Closet
House Updates
I feel like I have been sleeping a lot lately, but surprisingly when I look back at my photos I see we actually have accomplished quite a lot. Just last weekend Grant finally got the fan in the down stairs bathroom working so we no longer have to have the front door open as our way of airing out the bathroom and we put up a security screen, painted the front door and installed a new mail box. I do have to admit a lot of this work was happening while I was sleeping but I did go on … [Read more...] about House Updates
The Closet
We have a closet down stairs that the previous owners had knocked a hole in to get more space. The thing is the area behind is smelly and had mold and I could never imagine putting anything back there, so I told grant to make the wall whole again. He said we need the room...so he built a shelf that fits the area perfectly and hopefully will stop the smell and I guess we can put stuff way back in there! Before We also use to have some dark curtains hanging on either … [Read more...] about The Closet
Bathroom Before and After
We finally finished the down stairs bathroom. When we moved in the bathroom was very out dated with one of those shell shaped sinks. Grant was able to replace the sink and stain the cabinets to make it a little more updated. Its too bad I didn't get a picture of the original sink top, it was very dated! The painting of the walls was one of the hardest things because the paint was not adhering to the paint that was already on the walls. We had to peal a lot of … [Read more...] about Bathroom Before and After
Before and After The House
A small update I made was to spray paint this air conditioner white, it was so ugly before. Its not perfect now but at least it doesn't stand out as much as it did. Below is the new sink top sitting on top of the cupboards before we stained them. The old top was horrible and sadly I can't find a good picture of it. Below is the sink almost done. We still have to paint the walls and finish the small details. I have to start taking better pictures but the … [Read more...] about Before and After The House
Before and After
On the left is the before with the ugly brown wall and the old light. On the right is the new fresh painted light gray colored wall and our new dining room light. On the left is the shelf before it was painted and on the right is the shelf after it has been painted and decorated. Below is our living room before the walls are painted. Below is our living room after the wall have been fixed up! Pretty soon I will have some before and after pictures of … [Read more...] about Before and After
Kitchen Re-do Part one
This week we got a lot of work done on our place. We replaced the Garage door, replaced the kitchen faucet, painted the kitchen, painted some built in shelves, replaced the shower heads and started on fixing up the down stairs bathroom. Above is the new garage door Above is the shelves before they were painted. Below is the new faucet. Below is us starting to paint, it was originally brown and we decided a really light gray would be better. Below … [Read more...] about Kitchen Re-do Part one