Starting the fence!

This week I am getting bids to have people come out and put fence posts in. We will hopefully have a lovely wooden fence within the next 2 months. Our current fence is Horrid and makes the house look really TRASHY! The inside just looks so great now that I am just dying for the outside to match it.

One of my great friends, Laine, is going to be moving in with us in May for a few months. It will be a little strange going back to having a roomate again but I am just hoping everything works out. The extra money will really help out on the projects we want to do. The new guest room, our old room, is painted and looks amazing. You can't even tell that there was ever a popcorn ceiling in there. I LOVE IT! We are slowly doing the small things now that have been getting put off due to all of our rather large projects. I have been raking in preparation for Spring. I can't wait!!!!

We got a new foster dog, his name is Buddy and he has really bad arthritis. He is such a sweet pup.

Good weekend

On Saturday I got the final bedroom ceiling painted. We also hung up our blinds in the dining room. On Sunday got the paint up in bedroom. The color is a gray brown. It's the darkest color we've used in the house so far. The ceiling, floors and trim a very light so I think it looks great. I was worried it was going to look like a cave but I like it alot. I am officially tired of painting!

Since September we have gotten soooo much done inside the house. I am ready to start working outside again. Especially now that everything is pretty comfortable inside. My favorite thing to do is garden. I can wait for all of my plants to come back this year! We should have our new wood fence within the next 2 months and my hope is that we have new gutters and paint on the house by October. The more I say it and write it, the more likely it will happen.

Here are some photos of the progress of the bedroom and the dining room windows. We still need to trim the room out.

The Upstairs is ALMOST FINISHED!!!

We had a very productive weekend! I scraped the entire popcorn ceiling pictured below in my last post. Under the popcorn ceiling was 2 layers of wallpaper. Luckily I was able to remove everything in about 5 hours. I've already mudded and primed the ceiling. It should be all ready for paint next weekend. I also primed and painted the walk in closet that had some ugly wood paneling. This is the last room that has been longing for some human touch and it should be complete by next weekend.

We also are also finished sanding the windows in the dining room- so I can FINALLY hang up my $300 worth of roller shades on 2 windows. Geeze.

I'll post photos next week when we are all finished so make sure to check back.

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! =)

Moving slowly

Last weekend we finished patching and painting the closet in the bedroom. I began putting down so gray carpet tiles. We still need to put up the trim around the door leading to the hall and "build the closet". Once we are done with these last items we will be moving all of our stuff into that bedroom while we paint our room which will be the new guest room. Confused yet? I need a vacation!

Photos of the Guest Room

As promised, here are the photos of all of our progress:








Sorry for all of the pictures. So much work went into every detail. The ceiling turned out better than I'd imagined. It's not perfect but pretty darn close. We are almost done with all of the trim work. The door still needs trim, as well as the closet, but the window is pretty much finished. What do you think of the color? I like it. It flows with the rest of the upstairs. Isn't it hard to believe that this was all ceiling tile, wood paneling and ZERO trim just a few months back???

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.