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!

Office Furniture

So I though I would post some before and afters of the office. The office doesn't have all of it's furniture yet but I've got the 2 largest peices and I just couldn't wait to share it. We have yet to get a new mesh office chair and 2 accent chairs by the mirrored table. Here is what the office used to look like:



And now with the new desk and bookcase:





There is the full view from different angles. The L shaped desk makes so much more sense considering the slopes in the ceilings. Also this bookcase is so much better because the other one was WAY too big. These are the accent chairs that I am considering:

The cool thing is that these chairs could also be extra seating for our dining room and would flow with the rest of our color scheme. Then once we get up the art work and all I think it'll be looking great.

Under the weather

I've had an awful cold for the past week that just won't seem to go away. Atleast I am finally back at work and it can only get better from here. can you believe the -21 degree temperature we're being fordced to endure?

We have made quite a bit of progress on the house. I bought some new office furniture that looks awesome. I got a great L shaped desk and a new bookcase that didn't waste as much space as our last one. Everything that used to clutter our office has been sold on craigslist (I love you craigslist xoxox) and has helped us fund our new purchases. I just need 2 accent chairs and a new office chair and we'll be done with furniture purchasing. Then I'll need to decorate the room but I figure that can wait until more projects are completed.

We are also putting down new maple quarter round in the hallway. The old stuff was just so broken up. It's a shame I am priming and painting all of it but the trim upstairs is all white. It looks amazing. I'll post more photos soon. Now we just need to finish mudding the guest room...