Guest room pre floors and windows, as well as bathroom demo

Who ever said you should finish one job before starting the next job never met me :) today's post will show you the progress on our guest room as well as the first stages of our next house project.

Guest Room Before

Don't you just love the green and brown...I didn't hence why I didn't even wait a week after moving in before I started working on it. Firstly I filled all the holes with the pink to white Spackle stuff then sanded all the wood work before I set to work on the painting. This were slow because I have messed up my SI joint so it took about a month before I was able to get to this stage.

 We went for 2 walls blue and 2 wall toast...It took me about 6 trips to Lowes and Home depot before I finally found the blue tone I was happy with. Notice the nightstand that was given to us for nothing and with a bit of paint its turned out great (still have to put the finish coat on it)

This will eventually hold all my craft stuff, but before that its needs refinishing. It will be white, with blue on the inside where the glass is and I have some old rafters that I am going to cut down and use for feet to get it up for the ground. Also you can see the window need some work, we are currently having all of them through out the house replaced so will get to them later.

 This was one of my fav projects of the room, we have an old picket fence in our shed so I took some of the pickets and hammered the nails out, cleaned them up and used some corner supports to mount them to the wall. Each shelve cost me a total on $2 for the corner supports.

One of my summer camps closed down a few years ago so I made the mount and framed the bandana, ashes, camp dirt and a couple of photos. I love how it has turned out and now it will always remind me of the great summers I spent at Camp Kate Portwood.

Project 2

The bathroom went from this

To this

All because I hated the tile, and it had to go, little did I know that I was going to find 2 layers of drywall, laminate tile and a tonne of Mold. Hence now its become a full renovation but I don't mind because if I am going to spend money on it then I am going to do it right.

I still have a dry wall to remove but the tile is gone and I have sprayed bleach on the wood you can right now to kill of any more mold. That window is the whole reason we decided to redo all of our windows.

Keep looking back to see how its going.

Oh and we decided on refinishing the hardwood floors we all ready have :)

To do list!!

This is why I should not be allowed to spend to much time in doors...I create huge to do lists.

Right now on my to do list includes;

• Finish gutting the bathroom - we have mold so all the drywall and installation around the bath tub needs replacing, plus i hated the tile on there.
• Sand and re-seal all the Hardwood floors through out the house
• Refinish craft closet and add legs
• Hang shelves in guest room
• Clean up the front and side flower beds
• Clean and organize pantry 
• Make TV shelves for living room
• Seal dresser for guest room
• Finish touch ups in guest bedroom
• Start ideas board for what will become the nursery 
• Turn king size shams into standard size
• Order new pool pump.
• Work on the gallery wall for the living room

I'm sure this isn't everything that i need to get done, but if I can get most of it done in the next month or at least all the bedroom stuff then I'll be happy. My deadline in June 23rd as that will be our house warming party :)

Now I will close in Thanking all those out there who have or who are serving in the military for everything that have given us.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend
Jenine 

To do or not to do??

So since moving into our new house I have been creating a long to-do list of stuff I would really like to see :) well I think that list maybe about to get even longer:

Hardwood flooring through out, I know this Photo doesn't show much, but I had the need to write and because i am sore at the moment going to take a photo is just to much work, maybe I'll do one later in the day when I can move around a bit better.

Yes every single non-tiled floor in our house has this flooring either all ready showing or under the carpet. It even carries on into all the closest :). Our plan was to do a DIY hardwood in the living room and hallway then carpet the bedrooms, but the more i look at the Hardwood floor the more I like it. With a bit of elbow grease, I think they would come up pretty sweet. What do you think? Do we take the plunge and refinish the floors we already have? I know it will save a bunch of money and I'm all about that, but it will be a lot of hard work.

Let me know what you think
Jenine

It's been a while.

So a lot has happened since I was last able to blog. The biggest change has been this little or should i say big baby:

Yes me and my husband took the plunge and finally become first time homeowners. We fell in love with this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house the moment we set eyes on it. We started looking in January, took a 3 week break to go visit my family in England in February and jumped right back into the house hunting when we got back. 7 houses later and we put in an offer, which the sellers accepted and we moved in on April 30th.

For those that know me there are more photos on my Facebook. On here i will go room by room as we decorate :) Right now we are working on the guest bedroom so here is a sneak peak of a couple of projects I have done in there:

Fence post shelf's I need to put in another one to hold all my shot glasses - Not bad for someone who does not drink.

 

My friend gave me this great cabinet, it was a little battered up so decided to paint it the same colour as the walls and loved how it has come out :)

We still have a few projects in the room before the big revel, such as spray paint the bed, carpet, and a few paint touch ups but other then that its coming together nicely. Things have been a bit slower then I would have liked but what can you do when you can hardly move. Yay for back/hip pain :(.

Since my last post me and the husband have been working hard and and settling into life in Oklahoma well. I have been working hard on my weight loss and am now under 170, that means i am now less then 10lbs to goal. However I have been thinking of lowering to 150, we shall see. I feel so much better and love the fact i can get into smaller clothes now.

The husbands car is currently in the shop as the day after we closed on the house someone drove into the side of him. We are just truly blessed that no one was hurt and that their insurance is paying for it all as well as a rental.

Happy Sunday to everyone