The Master Bedroom Reveal

We are 90% done with the master bedroom, so I thought it was time to finally get the pictures out there. Remember the bedroom before?Here it is after.
A different angle from before - again these pictures are from our final walk through and the old owners furniture.
Same shot after. The room is a little darker than before. But I personally like my bedroom to be a little darker, it just seems more cozy and personal.
The colors are brown and blue. I already had the bedding, which I am actually wishing to change, but I don't have a really good reason except I "want" something new. And then the curtains that my mom made for us that I still love.
Here is a close up of the sitting room and the new floor mirror I got from Jesse for Valentines Day. I have been wanting a floor mirror forever!Old sitting room.
New sitting room. Still missing artwork and a table to go between the chairs. Also notice the bright blue blanket below the door - to be explained later. And the darker blue blanket is the temporary dog bed. Temporary because the dogs only like to sleep on beds during the winter. In the summer they prefer to be on the tile, or right over the registers.
Old picture showing the bathroom wall.
Redone. Notice our little whoops?
That's right, we hung pictures on a wall, that is most of the time hidden by the bathroom door. Being that we are the type to keep our bathroom door open most of the time. I guess we have to find a new spot to hang those pictures. And notice the bathroom just screaming to be redone. All in good time (except I still can't take a bath, see the leaking post from earlier in the month).
And here is how the sitting room actually looks right now. The sliding door is original to the house and leaks like crazy. Being that it's freezing cold out right now, we have a blanket blocking the draft. We hope to replace the door with French doors and screen in the balcony. Not sure that will actually happen this year or not.
Well I hope you liked the tour of our new master bedroom. It only took 2 months to "almost" complete. That's what happens when your busy trying to take care of a two year old, and you never seem to have enough time on the weekends to get anything done.

A new project

We haven't even had the big reveal of our master bedroom. It's almost done. In fact if I just picked up a few things, I could probably take all the pictures. But we still have Jesse's closet yet to do, and I think we can get it done within the next two weeks, so I am going to wait.

In the meantime, this project is something I can do by myself during the day. And it's tackling the kitchen. All we are going to do right now is paint the walls. And update the vertical blinds to curtains. I already have the paint, curtains and new rod, so I'm itching to get it all done.

Here is the kitchen before, taken during our final walk through. No that cat is not ours, it was the old owners.
And here are the lovely vertical blinds that I decided to dump out on the deck. They will be going in the trash no recycling for them. Notice the lovely orange color in the picture above. Well the old owners had painted them, but only on the one side. So if you were sitting outside you could see the rough edges of the orange on the white backs. Very classy.
How many holes does a person really need to put into one wall?
I hope to get this all painted this week. Taking on a project like this, while we are still working on an old one is just the sort of thing to get me in trouble with the hubby. Well that's only if I don't get this one finished up in a few days that is.

Stay tuned..............

Rec Room

This is the extra room on our first floor. It's actually quite large, and when we bought the house our plan was to eventually turn this into another bedroom and bathroom for Bella. That is still our same plan, but we really aren't planning on doing that for quite a few more years. Mainly when Bella is just too big we can't manage to carry her upstairs for bedtime.The old owners left their pool table, which gets used occasionally. We will be moving downstairs once that space gets renovated. Finishing the basement is a tricky one. It's something we would like to have done, but we have so many other things in front of it, I don't see it happening for years.
We have our old rear projection TV in here, which is only really used for Wii Fit, and other Wii games when we have people over.
Our main use of this space is the computer desk. And the main reason for this post is to tell you that I spent 7 hours on my Sunday to do one years worth of paperwork. Oh and I also finished up our taxes. Glad to have all the paperwork put away. But I would like to get more organization into the space. But being I don't see this as a permanent place for the computer, I have a hard time justifying doing anything to organize it. Not to mention I would eventually like to get a new computer desk, but that's just wishing at this point.
The real owners of this room are Colby and Elle. Their dog bed sits in the corner, and they love to run around the pool table and chase each other. So yes I guess you could say that this big rec room belongs to the dogs!

Earring Display

I finished my 3 earring frames. I really like how they turned out. I used old 5x7 pictures frames, painted them white. I then wrapped some coordinating fabric around the back of the frame and cut some netting to fit where the glass used to be. Lastly I stapled ribbon to hang them from.Here is the finished jewelry wall of my closet.

Jewelry Display

I am still putting the finishing touches on my closet. I needed something to store some of my jewelry. I found an idea about making a frame for your necklaces and earrings. I finally finished the first frame for some of my necklaces.

I took an old frame that wasn't being used and bought some 1/4" thick scrap board from Lowe's for $1.

I then painted the frame white and painted the scrap board with the wall colors from our master bedroom. I actually just used a cut out piece of paper to paint this design from wallpaper I found online. I bought little cup hooks that I painted blue and screwed into the board. Then I hung the frame on the wall of my closet.

Lastly I hung some of my necklaces on the hooks.
This is only about half of my necklaces, so I am going to have to find another frame, one that is hopefully a little longer in length.

Something might have moved up in priority

Today I felt like I was coming down with a cold. Today I also happened to have a headache. So I decided to take a bath while Bella was having quite time in her bed. I knew the bathtub didn't hold water, it had a very slow leak. But what I didn't know is that the leak wasn't just from the drain, it was actually leaking to the ceiling below. I guess we are just lucky that bathtub has only been used 3 times since we moved in, granted I'm not sure how many times it was used by the previous owners. Interestingly enough the leak isn't visible on the ceiling, it actually looks like it is coming down in the wall between the family room and kitchen. Looks like the master bathroom might get remodeled sooner than expected.Can't tell from the ceiling, but there is a tiny water drop on the molding.
Can definitely see the water on top of the buffet piece.