Guest Room

We are excited to have our first guests to stay in our guest bedroom! We are taking reservations if anyone would like to come visit us!

Yes we have been working!

Hello everyone, We have been working over here! Our things came in last week and we have been working on getting those things unpacked and things organized etc. This week we bought some blinds for the back 4 windows of the house. There wasn't any, it was starting to get hot, and we didn't like the fact that someone could look into our house. Have you ever priced blinds? Yeah they are more expensive then you think, and we only had to buy 4! Our windows are 35 inches wide, and for some reason we decided to buy the 34 inch blinds because they matched the length perfectly, well when we got them home, and started putting them up they looked stupid so we had to take them back and get the 35's.  Derrick put them up last night and they look WONDERFUL! It's amazing how much they add to the room. I thought that originally I might just put curtains up and that would look okay, but I am so glad that we got the blinds as well. I am going to put a little panel curtain on that back door instead of putting a blind there since we will have to replace that back door eventually.

Yesterday, I bought this little beauty of a couch off of Craigslist. Thanks to my Mom for helping us picking it up and helping me move it inside. It's funky, it's retro, it reminds me of a grandma's house, it smells kinda like a grandma's house, but I love it! I love the shape, and the clean lines, plus it will be SUPER easy to recover, which we will do one day! For now I am just going to throw some new pillows on it and call it done.

 So, that means the brown couches moved to the Media room!  Derrick setup the TV, and we are loving our little makeshift media room! There is still a TON that we need to do like paint, run wires, set up sound system, eventually get a projector or a bigger TV, but we love hanging out in here. (I think that it's funny that Derrick is just staring at a blue screen here) First movie we watched in here? Twilight: Eclipse, because we were in a cheesy mood.

 This weekend we also got these little beauties! I am in LOVE with the armchair in the back. The upholstery is in really good condition, so again for now I might just throw a pillow on it. The pink swivel/rocking chair is in less than better condition but for now I am going to just clean it up make some cute armcovers, throw a pillow on it and also call it done for now. So many projects! This chair is going to go in Magnolia's room.

 Speaking of Magnolia..... isn't she cute when she's sleeping? She loves her blankets!

 Got these cute chairs for the kiddies.....

 Oh, did I mention that Derrick had a birthday? 28 Years baby! Thanks to Brant and Chris and Mom and Dad for coming! We went to Babe's, and it was hilarious.

 I was just going through the phone and found these other two really cute pictures, Enjoy.

Still tons to do on the house as always but we are getting there! I might have some of my family over for mother's day for a dinner, so this is some SUPER motivation to get things done! Work, work, WORK!

Preview

Sneak peek into our bedroom...

Our things arrived today from Utah. So we will probably be spending most of the weekend unpacking AGAIN, and organizing, before we can finish painting, but I am glad to have my things here. Oh, and I am excited to see THE AVENGERS this weekend with Mom and Dad S. and Brant and Chris. Holla!

Dilapidation, be gone! (Sort of...)

Anyone who has seen our deck in the backyard knows that it is one of the great eye sores of our house.  The wood is warped and unsecured in many places, and the whole thing is painted this nasty shade of red--a shade of red that, oddly, appears in various parts of our neighborhood.  It must have been a "thing" a few years back?

All the same, with the help of our amazing friend/realtor's power washer, Traci and I went to town on the porch.  Traci spent almost all of yesterday tearing up as much paint and she could while I removed the railing.  We think it looks MUCH better.  What say ye?

Still on the agenda for the deck:
Repair wood where necessary
Cover up bottom
Paint/stain
Build two sets of stairs
Build come sort of shade/covering on half (eventually)
String lights across top (eventually)
Host crazy BBQ's on top of it (eventually)
Host a straight up crazy romantic dance on it (eventually)

Before Photo

 Giving the kids a bath

Triumphant!

Admiring her work

The Power of Paint

We painted the kitchen and the living room last night, HUGE difference. I actually like my cabinets now. There still is nothing on the wall, no curtains or blinds, but no more green!  I am really loving the color we picked. It turned out more blue, but so much better then the alternative.

Before

(After) we are going to paint that table and jazz up the light fixture.

Before, those couches are classy.

(After) We are getting an amazing sectional tomorrow, and then those couches are going up into the media room.

I hope you are enjoying the updates! Next room to be painted is our bedroom. Stay tuned as we conquer bead and batten as well as refinishing our deck!

Playroom

This is our playroom. Clean! Eventually I want to add some rain gutter bookcases, a reading area, and some sweet Dr. Seuss-esq light fixtures, and we need to paint the top half, but I am loving it so far. Paint is Sherwin Williams in Naval. We added non sanded grout to make it chalk friendly.

Pretty Obvious...

It's pretty obvious that we have taken a break from blogging.  I usually post pictures and things on Facebook. I have gotten a lot of requests to post some pictures of the new pad though, so I decided to put them on the blog  instead of bugging all of the Facebook world with it.  Now, I contemplated whether or not I wanted to put pictures of the house up yet. It is NOT ready! We moved in with basically no furniture or anything to put anywhere.  We are still waiting to even get all of our stuff here in Texas, (it will hopefully arrive next week), but I decided to post the before/during projects pictures so that you can get a feel of what the house looks like, and hopefully to see a HUGE transformation take place!

Magnolia's Room (as of right now the most put together room in the house)

 Guest Room

 Kitchen

 Living

 1/2 bath downstairs

 Playroom

 Maxster's Room

 Media Room

 Formal Living (I suspect this room to be the last one to be touched)

 Entryway

Be kind to us, and see some vision when you look at the place please, at the very least, maybe we can blow you away when all of our projects get completed. There is a master bedroom and bath but I don't have any pictures of it at this time.  I will keep posting pictures as projects/decorating/painting/unpacking occurs. We love you all and thanks for all of the support in our new adventure!