Ok, let's start all over.

I have been super busy this last few months. We went on a great vacation to the dells in October for my birthday.

Did some great work on the house, painted the porches, painted the beam in the living room, and added a few new windows.

I am so happy with the progress on the house. We also painted the garage. Now as you can see we still have a few more window's left to do. Thirty One at my last count. We did seven this last time. We also want to put new screen doors on the house. I still would like to remodel the kitchen and do a few other projects. I have also been busy with Christmas projects. I am trying to make as many as I can for Christmas. I have made almost one for each person on my list. I won't go into any details here, but I will post pictures of everyone enjoying there gifts.

Next New Project

Well we finally have had our new sliding glass doors installed it has only taken 6 months. I am so happy, they close so nice. I did have a scare though, I was removing the factory stickers and I thought that the glass was cracked, but it was only a little bit of glue. I was so relieved when I found that it was only glue. Ok next step curtians for windows after body double is done and Easter. The list just goes on and on and on and on.

New Project

I have recently finished a project that I have wanted to do for a long time. I have painted our bedroom. For Christmas I asked for gift cards for Home Depot so I could purchase the paint for this room. These are the before pictures.

Here it is. It took me five different paint samples to come up with this color combination. I wanted it to be warm and inviting but cool and relaxing at the same time. I feel so relaxed when I come into our bedroom. Next step: Find curtain material, finish the bed, and stain or paint the trim. I have the material for the sheers that I want to put in the room. I am going to reuse the sheers that use to hang in the living room of one of our old apartments. I also want to make some kind of covering for our closet since it does not have any doors on it. I use to have the sheers over the closet but I never really like how it looked since I don’t have a curtain rod up there and it was kind of just tacked up there. I want something that will be easy to open and close. I will probably match the curtains to what ever I decide to put on the closet. Now I just need to save up money for this project, unless anyone wants to make a donation. Pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, hundreds no amount is too small or large.

Winter Projects

This past winter I half way finished a project. Our Hall Way.

This is the before picture, ugly wall paper boarder and all.

This is the after picture, sure I still need new carpet and need to paint all of the trim. But just look what a coat of paint will do. It make all the difference in how I feel about the space. It feels more like me and my style.

Living Room Remodel

Well we have taken down the wall and put some paint up, but would you know it we have a small leak in the roof and will have to fix it this spring. In the mean time we have a bucket in the rafters in one of the small closets off the bathroom. What else will go wrong?

The Living Room

Well we removed the wall between the sunroom and the living room and everything is starting to take shape.

The above picture is of my pregnant sister Sarah pulling out staples in the hardwood floors. We removed the carpet and low and behold there were beautiful hardwood floors underneath. We are planning on having them refinished sometime after my sister's baby is born. We found some interesting wall paper underneath the paneling on the wall. We have decided that because the wall paper is so horrid we are going to just leave the paneling on the wall and paint it with a lovely butter color. All the trim will be a coffee brown.

We have recently had the support beams covered and new outlets and light fixture rewired. We are waiting on the drywaller’s to finish the ceiling so we can prime and paint the walls. We will then sand the trim and then wait for my sister’s friend to do the floors. After the floors are done we will paint the trim. Then we will start on a new room. Be with us next time for standing room only or rock n’ roll.

The New House

Well I am finally back from my vacation, if you call moving in one day a vacation. We signed on our new house last week Tuesday and I have been cleaning and packing like crazy. My new house now looks like I have not cleaned it in weeks with boxes on all the counters. We have a lot of work that we are going to do to the house but it will take us some time. Here is what it looks like now.

We are planning on doing some painting because the choices of colors are not what we would pick.

We really want to put new window's in the house because some of them have been broken and then sealed with cauk. Almost all of the windows in the house have been caulked shut. We also want to update the Kitchen the layout is very odd.

We also want to remove a wall from that seperates the sunroom and the livingroom so that we can have one great room.

I will try and keep everyone updated on our progress. Have a blessed week.