I fell asleep the other night fretting over what color to paint the den, but I woke up this morning realizing that I have less than 16 weeks (or so) until this baby is born, and I need to get my priorities in order. This is the last nursery I’ll ever do, so I’d like to make it awesome. I’m … Continue reading
I am not, historically, someone who decorates extensively for holidays. I mean, we put up a Christmas Tree. And we usually talk about putting up lights and then don’t get around to it. But I LOVE holidays, and I love at least the idea of decorating for them, so I am trying to turn over a new leaf here. My … Continue reading
I think we’ve already done more with this house in 4 months than we did with our old house in 9 years. That might be a slight exaggeration, but it does make me sad to look back at all the stuff we did in the last few months, to get the house ready to sell, and wonder why we didn’t … Continue reading
While Dave was digging with The Beagle on Saturday, I was confidently applying thin and even coats of green spray paint to the formerly cream colored lamps from the dining room. Said lamps were $5 each at the thrift store and looked like this (with Target shades. I won’t say how much the shades were because it makes the lamps … Continue reading
I ordered curtains from Overstock.com last week, and they showed up on Friday. For some reason they’re called “conspiracy curtains.” There’s a rug on its way next, for under the armchair (mostly so it doesn’t slide back and break the glass doors….when we get the glass doors). We had trouble deciding between rug and no rug for this room….Dave says … Continue reading
We are in the midst of a busy home improvement Saturday around here. Already there has been a trip to Lowe’s, curtain hanging, lamp spray-priming, and firepit yard digging. That’s still going on, the digging is. But I can’t help–pregnant! Yep….digging while pregnant gives babies two heads, I think I read somewhere. And hanging curtains is such hard work that … Continue reading
The upstairs! The former owners’ decorating choices get a little more….interesting when you get upstairs. There are 4 bedrooms up there, a laundry room and hall bath, plus a ridiculously big master bath and closet. Before we saw the inside of the house, I was expecting the room over the garage to be a bonus room. But no. It’s all closet … Continue reading
This is what the breakfast area in our kitchen looks like right now: The table and chairs were a $45 Craigslist find that we picked up back when we were listing the old house and needed the dining room to look like a dining room. And I like it a lot, and most people probably don’t even notice that a … Continue reading
Moving right along with two post/one day madness! So this room is supposed to be the formal living room, but, like almost everyone else, we don’t need one of those. But we do need somewhere for the piano to live, and for all the books to stay, and for Milo and Dave to play guitar, and maybe to play chess? … Continue reading
I STILL haven’t found my own personal before pictures from the day we moved in…so I grabbed all the realtor pictures that are still there on Zillow. Dave is working (slowly) on a floor plan for me to post, because he’s a math teacher, so he enjoys measuring things. But, in the meantime, here’s a less mathematical tour of an … Continue reading