New buffet

When I finished painting the kitchen a few months ago, I said I would be replacing the black buffet with a new one.I found this on Craigslist for $50.
After a couple coats of paint, some new stain and varnish on top, and new hardware, it now looks like this.
I also received this old antique tea cart from my mom. I thought it would be a great piece to grow herbs in the kitchen. I found some contact paper that almost exactly matched the new curtains.
Now the seating area of the kitchen looks like this.
I really have a desire to paint the kitchen chairs bright green to pull in the color from the family room. I saw it done in a magazine and it looked great. But this table and chairs is also an antique and I'm not sure if I can commit to painting. We'll see..........I do still have some green paint left!

Kitchen Buffet

I have a new project. I bought this buffet table for $50 on craigslist. I plan to refinish it and put it in the kitchen.

Words to Remember

I finished painting the canvas to hang in our sitting room.
It's the words to our wedding song.
Just a little inspiration for us as we get ready every day!

Two Ongoing Projects

Remember that blank space I was trying to fill in our sitting room, above the two chairs. Well this canvas will eventually go there once I finish painting it.And this little project is something I bought supplies for to have finished by the past Christmas. Doesn't help that I didn't start on it till March, so I am trying to get it finished in the next couple of weeks to unveil this coming Christmas.
I have many other projects I want to start working on. But I feel I should finish these up before I start anything new. And as the weather warms up we start talking about tackling our very large projects, outside and inside.

The kitchen - part 1

I call this part 1, only because I'm not fully in love with it yet. There is still too much of the same wood tone going on in the kitchen. So you will have to stay tuned to see what I come up with. Not to mention I am still lacking some dressing up of the soffit and window over the sink. And don't ask why I forgot to take down the four towels hanging from the oven. No normal person needs four towels, except apparently me.The kitchen before.
After.
Before.
After.

Because of my lack of counter space, I brought in the black buffet from the dining room. I hope to pick up a buffet at some point that I can paint white and keep in this spot, so the black one can return to it's rightful place. But it works for now, as long as you don't stare at the back too much, as it's just the cheap old paper board that gets nailed to the back. Also notice the white fridge standing out like a sore thumb.
Old light fixture.
New light fixture. And what you can't see, is that there is now a nice spot on the ceiling that wasn't painted. So I will have to figure out how to match the white color and get it painted. Maybe I will luck out and find the old color in the basement.
So for our minor kitchen makeover we spent:

paint - free (leftover from the master bedroom)

pendant light fixture = $20 from Lowes

curtains - $50 from overstock.com

curtain rod - $20 from Joanns

Ceiling Fan - $100 from Home Depot

Grand Total = $190

The Chair

I have been moving this chair around for as long as I can remember. I believe I used to do homework on it back in grade school. It went to college with me, and then followed me to Kansas City. Jesse has always wondered why I kept it. Mainly because it has always looked like this, no chair padding, and the worn out stain. I just happened to like the lines of the chair and one day wanted to fix it up.

Well the time has come. I finally went and picked up upholstery fabric and created a seat. I also stripped down the varnish so I can re-stain the chair. I am going to keep it the same color family it was in. Problem being, I want to stain it when I can open the windows or have the chair outside, so that part will have to wait for it to warm up.

But for now, the chair resides in our bedroom to collect clothes. I don't know if anyone else out there is like me, but I'm not the type of person that washes everything if it has only been worn once (jeans, sweatshirts, jackets, etc). Yet I don't like to put it back in the drawers with all the clean clothes. So usually I need a chair, or bench to collect the worn, but not dirty clothes. It's my little quirk.

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.