The Entire Upstairs Will Soon Be Complete

Sorry for the delay in blogging. We just got back from vacation in New York City.

There are just a few items left to complete in the guest bedroom, mainly just closet stuff. Unfortunately closet doors are going to be a little pricey so they will have to wait a bit since our Spring projects will begin soon (HOPEFULLY!). We move our furniture into the guest room and saw that there wasn't really enough wall space. We decided that we will probably have to keep the other room as the master. Atleast now we have some closet space and a nice room for guests, right? Here is the way the room looks so far:

The closet still needs framing and doors:


What a difference! Our house just keeps getting better and better.

Quentin is going to continue doing all of the final finishing touches on the guest room this weekend while I begin the master room. Fortunately this room will only the ceiling scraped, the walls and trim painted and thats about it. Oh yeah- and a new ceiling fan. Everyone typically likes the paint that's in there but this is definitely not my taste.



Can't wait to begin scraping the ceiling! Hopefully this will be fast and painless. I am ready to just enjoy the interior of my house rather than see projects everywhere. The exterior is a different story! =)

Almost finished

The guest room is painted and all of the base moulding, quarter round and window trim has been put up. We even got up some new blinds. The guest room is looking so amazing. I'm thinking next weekend we'll begin designing/ building a new closet in there. Once we've got that completed we'll be moving into that room while we go to town on our current room. The upstairs will be complete once that done. How crazy is that??? We wern't even planning on doing this room for awhile and it just sort of happened. I gutted it by myself one day and it's just been a slow progression since then. I'm so happy that I'll have a nice comfortable upstairs soon.

I also bought some nice organizational stuff for the office.

The brown and sage-ish beige color really flow with the blue gray walls and the brown accent chairs I got. Now I finally have storage for all of my office stuff and it's no longer all exposed or in boxes. All I really have left to get for the office is some art for the walls and then it will be complete.

I took photos of the guest room for all of you but I totally forgot to grab my camera. I will have some photos for you tomorrow.

I'm so happy!

What a productive weekend. We finally finished mudding and sanding the guest bedroom. I primed, and painted the entire room. We ended up painting it a dark grayish blue. It looks pretty good. We also put in all new outlets and a new light fixture. What a difference! We bought new base moulding. The base moulding we chose was actually primed particle board. Of course this wouldn't be my first choice but compared to solid wood this was $1.65/ sqft vs. $5.75/ sqft. We cut them and painted them a nice semit gloss. You seriously would never know the difference by looking at it. It's solid and look really good.

Quentin installed a new window over the stairs in the basement. Someone had broken in through this window before we bought the house and ever since then we've had a board over the window. We've always had enough on our plate that it just wasn't that big of a concern. On Friday we cleaned and organized our entire basement for 4 hours. That's 8 hours of dealing with dirty basement. It looks so good! That's the spot we put our junk. All of our tools are down there and it just gets neglected. I'm happy to have it back and have more natural light and less draft in the basement.

So typically I post a bunch of pictures of the progress, but since we are almost done I want to give you the wow factor. You'll just have to wait until we get the trim up. I Got the accent chairs for the office through overstock.com. Once I got them I bought the very first rug for our house. I haven't bought more due to the other floors not being refinshed yet and our dogs having accidents here and there. What do you think of the entrance into the office?

Before new office furniture:


After:


Here is a photo of our foster dog Archie. He's already lost a pound or so. He's such a good dog!

My Favorite New Toy

Everyone who has or has had hardwood floors throughout their entire house knows how frustrating it can be to constantly mop a floor. I mop, then I sop everything up with a towel, the towels filthy, the floors never really get all that clean. Well, I found the best thing in the world.


The hoover floormate works sooo well! It has scrub brushes that spin and then it sucks all of the water up. I am in love with this thing and can't wait to get home to clean more floors. Hahah.

We are almost finished with sanding and mudding in the 2nd bedroom. We should be priming by this weekend. It will be nice to have that room back. Everything is sort of everywhere.

Oy Gevalt

We are racing around the clock to finish hanging a new sheet rocked ceiling, scrape wall paper and dismantle the closet in the guest bedroom. Next Monday we are getting our upstairs floors professionally sanded! We will be doing the guest bedroom, office and hallway. I found the contractor through another blogger on here. His prices are very inexpensive and he's the only person I've met yet who I'd trust in my house without me being there.

It will be nice to walk on the floors without having my feet feel dirty even after I've just washed the floors. We were planning on sanding the floors ourselves but I'm going to leave this one to the pros. We have quite a few repairs that need to be done on the floors and I just want it done correctly. I just don't want another large dreadful project. Luckily he will be able to have the floors done within 3 days.

I also ordered 2 new roller shades for the dining room. Who knew shades could be so expensive? I spent $286 on two of them- custom of course, and that's the best price I found. They are going to look really great! I can't wait to get rid of our smoke yellow shades that currently adorn our windows. I guess we'll just have to get 2 at a time. I'm having trouble finding good colors in for shade fabric. Most manufacturers have limited and boring colors. =(