Project #2

Wow!  As my sister so kindly reminded me, it's been 5 days since my last post.  What a slacker!

There are many things that I can blame my lack of posting on but I'll spare you all the details and blame it on the fact that I had another kid free weekend (you can see the first one here) where I worked on redecorating projects around the house.  (Remember I mentioned that here).

This go round, I was redoing my oldest daughters bedroom.  Here is what it looked like before:

And here are some after shots:

It's amazing what a little bit of paint can do for a room.  And my daughter absolutely loves it - she feels so grown up.  One of her favorite parts is the chalkboard.  As you may be able to see, I still need to finish the trim around it, but that will come eventually.  And I still need to get some tie-backs for the curtains and hem them up but that too will come in time. 

Of course my oldest son is a little jealous now and while I'm pretty sure I'm done painting for a while, it looks like he's in store to at least get some new bedding and curtains.

**Sorry about the lack of picture quality.  They were all taken with my phone.  I just grabbed my camera to go take actual pictures...opened the door and went right back out because it's a disaster already and I refuse to clean it!

Whatdya Been Up To? Part 3

I know, it's been a week since my kitchen has been complete and I haven't posted about it yet.  I'm a slacker (if you consider a slacker working on mid terms for 2 classes, doing normal homework assignments, cutting grass, shampooing carpets, cleaning house, grocery shopping and my "spa day") and I'm okay with that!

Just to give you an idea of how bad our kitchen was when we bought our house.  It was straight out of the 50's or 60's with tanish color laminate cabinets that only had two shelves and a teal countertop with silver sparkles.  I tried to find a decent picture of it but apparently I avoided taking pictures in that general area. 

Here is the best I could come up with (sorry Jeremy about the horrible picture of you).  At least it gives you an idea of how bad it really was before we had the cabinets and floors redone and all new appliances back in November 2007. 

After we had the new cabinets and floor installed, I put up the tile back splash and then it just sat there, unpainted for 2 1/2 years.  Part of me was terrified to accidentally get paint on the new cabinets, part of me didn't want to do anything after doing the back splash and the other part of me couldn't decide what color to paint. 

So it sat there:

I know it looked a lot better than when we bought the house, but it still wasn't what I wanted it to look like either.  Well that was until last weekend anyway.  Here is my AWESOME new kitchen:

(You can also see many of the new things we bought when we were in Lancaster  as well as my new dining room table too.) 

I absolutely love it!  I sit here many times during the day just admiring my own handy work.  It's amazing what some paint can do to really transform an area. Of course there are some things that still need to be done like a few more things on the walls, some more items on the tops of the cabinets and new rugs, but those things will come with time. 

Until then, I'm enjoying the new look.  Hope you've all enjoyed getting a glimpse into my house as well.