Saturday, August 25, 2012

Housework


   It's coming along! Slowly, but surely.
      Cori gave me a hand (thank you!) with the basement family room. I somehow never took pictures of the basement, so you'll have to use your imagination. It was a very drab and scuffed up beige when we moved in. Here's the after pictures. Well... mid pictures. I still have to decorate and rearrange. Decorating seems to be where I stall in each room!


 
I would like to make over the fireplace. I really hate that tile!!
 
Here's my bathroom before:

 
Yuck.
Here's after (mid):

                It might be hard to see, but that's a very light blue on the ceiling. Thanks Pinterest!

 
I was in need of cute curtains in the living room, but couldn't find anything I liked that was a reasonable price... So I bought a set of sheets! Another Pinterest find. Thank goodness other people come up with good ideas for me!
 

 
 
We hung a couple pendant lights.
In the entry way;

 
And over the dining table;
 
 
And that's that! Next up is the main bathroom, laundry room, basement bedroom, and then I move on to the outside of the house. Lots of trim to be scraped and painted! I plan to paint the stucco on the front of the house. We're going to put up a fence soon. We have another round of weed killing to do this fall, and then we can finally start landscaping. (And by landscaping, I mean planting a few things around the house that can survive me.) Maybe I'll even manage to put some things up on the walls in between these projects!
 
 
       

2 comments:

  1. The changes you made to your bathroom look fantastic! I love how striking the dark cabinets are - did you paint or stain them?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks! It's one of my favorite rooms in the house now. I stained the cabinets, but I promised myself halfway through that I would never use stain again. Ever. I used the Minwax brand from Home Depot and it took DAYS to dry when it should have taken a few hours. And that was per coat. I'm going to use paint from now on. :D

      Delete