livingroom update.

I have been missing forever.  So much has happened.  We have been settling into the new house and we just yesterday finished the last bit of stuff to get the old place cleaned and are officially done there! Here there has been new stuff coming in left and right.  It has been changing so quick that I haven't found time to get posts up.  I thought I would share a update on the living room. Here it is at the moment...

 I ordered a slipper chair from target at a steal of a deal when they had 30% off furniture/10$ gift card back with a purchase of 50$ and also my 5% off from using my red card!!  I know great deal, and it is so cute and comfy. I am posting it from there now while watching some downton abby.  The knit pouf ottoman is from walmart.com, and it was 40$ all the other ones I looked at were twice that price!  One issue I ran into with the new furniture was it is taller then my old and I have to find taller side tables.  My sister found this one at her salvation army and brought it down for me.  I painted it stone grey (because that is one of the spray paints in my stock that wasn't ruined its been so long since I painted lol) it is the perfect height, I just wish there had been two.

 My couch is a lazy boy and it is in the color chinchilla.  I love it!!  It is soo comfy.  I took a page out of the Nate Burkis book (miss his show soo much) when picking a new sofa and chose a great quality one. I felt under the cushions to make sure the support was good, and unzipped the cushions to look at what the cushions were made of.  I will have to do a post some time.  Plus lazy boy has lifetime warranty on the structure of the couch.  Can't beat that.

 Here is the other angle.  I have the rocker from max's room out here to rock the little monkey.  I also put up a gallery wall.

 It is lots of my pictures from the maternity shoot this summer.  I love it soo much I need to paint that p.  That will happen soon.  Also if you look below you might notice something...

 The baby proofing has began!!  Max crawls (pretty much only backwards at this point, but he is on the move so we needed a gate that wasn't a pressure one since this is a free standing rail.

 Also the gaps are soo big that we had to baby proof that so we ordered a kit of plastic off amazon for under 20$ and it is nice not a eye sore.  But the cats use it as a way to let me know when they want in and out of the baby gate!! So annoying they knock on it with their paws until I open the gate

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 Well that is all I have time for today I am going to get a few things done while the monkey man is sleeping :)

house progress.

I have been missing for a while because I have been working hard unpacking and getting life back to normal for my family.  I made a bit of progress and I thought I would share it.  This is the living room which is in progress right now.

 We got our new couch which is a lazy boy and I moved the old couch down stairs .   The love seat will not be staying where it is but I will get to that.

 Here is the opposite side of the room it has our glider the sofa table book shelf and a bunch of max toys.

 I decided not to get another love seat to go in the living room.  I chose to get a chair and the rocker instead.   This is the chair I ordered from target.  My girlfriend pat has a slipper chair from target and it is cute and comfortable so I decided I would mix it up and give it a shot. 

But if you are going to have a chair like that you need a ottoman to put your feet up so I was looking at the garter stitch puffs I have seen around they are normally 80$ and up but I found this one at walmart for 40$!!   So I am having that shipped site to store for free.

Another thing I ordered from target was a cabinet.  We have really poor storage in the kitchen  and the few cupboards we do have have small shelf's so things like syrup and oil don't fit inside and they can't be adjusted. so I measured and the larger cabinet in this picture will fit right beside the drafting table!  Not the most classy but It will work for the purpose I need for sure!

I also put up a wall collage out of my maternity pictures from this summer.

It needs a few things but I will look for some things to fill it out in the cities this weekend.

Max's puffs are moved over and he is back in business.

I will have more to share soon but I need caffeine while Max naps.  So I will have to share more later.  Have a great day guys

new house. Max's room/ dining room

We are in the new house and working hard on unpacking.  I have most of the boxes up packed and a few of the rooms are pretty much how I like them.  First off is this guys room..

 

Let me refresh your memory of before .  Bright blue walls and

wood paneling..

Lots of wood paneling.

I added the grey to off set the blue and here is Max's finished room.

I changed out the 70s globe light fixture for a more modern lamp shade hung back up his wall art (the decopage name, bunting, wall decals and frames)

Here  is a look at the other wall.  I have since found his other green bins, so this is full now.

His crib and what not are all set up this corner looks a bit bare now though but that is only because his puffs haven't been moved over from the old house they will go in the corner there.

Another room I have done is the dinning room.  The one thing that isn't finished is the laminate flooring isn't in yet  But you will get the gist.

 

The hutch is in the corner.  Before I used it in the living room for the tv and dvds and such.  Now it is in the dining room with dishes.

Here is the wall that the room shares with the living room.

 I have my sofa table here now before it was in my bedroom.

And this shelf was set up roughly like this before. It had the same picture above it and stored roughly the same things.

That is all I have for you thus far.  I have allot more accomplished since I took these pics but fire monster has been home the past two days so between her and max barely got a thing done around here.   Well off to fold a million loads of laundry.  Have a good one.

Progress on house

 Yesterday the new carpet went in down stairs.  It looks very nice.  I am very happy with it. It matches the girls room now which it didn't before.

 Speaking of which here is some pics of their room during the day most of the finished pics I had been taking were during the night because the projects all took so long it was dark by the time I got done...

 I put back up all the outlet faceplate. 

Well we have two days left in our current house and tomorrow the new white six panel doors will be going up as well as the new tub surround.  If I get time I will sneak over and get some pics of the finished product for you guys.  But for now it is time to wash my face and crawl into bed.  I am exhausted today because a certain handsome guy hasn't been sleeping well.  I can't wait to get down stairs and use my cleanse off oil.. ( It is like a mac cleanse off oil I love this stuff and plan on sharing the recipe for my diy cleanse off oil but haven't had time to set up the post but it is on the list for sure) Good night guys.

max's room preview

This is max's room.  Now Lets keep track the living room is brown..the kitchen is a dirty looking yellow based cream color..bathroom is a khaki..our room was hunter green.. girls room was maroon..down stairs bathroom was dark teal..and max's room is bright blue!! 

Thank god his colors I have been sticking with are bright blue, pear green, and grey...so I don't think I will cover up the color.  but more paneling!!

and more paneling!!

 

Ahh there better. I think..

I did undeniable on the paneling.  I know it seems weird and I am not sure how I feel about it..

But then I picture his stuff in here and I think it will tie it all together. 

So I think it will be good if not I can always redo it but I think I till work.  I hope you guys are having a good day.  :)

girls room

The last painting project I took on was the girls room.  They are going back to sharing a room and they don't even care because it is HUGE like 12feet by 20feet.  The one big problem with the room was..its maroon

Yup straight up maroon!!  Flat moron maroon paint at that!!!  So not kid friendly.  It had to go.

Besides the size a big selling point for this room was the "fort" or crawl space in the closet.  You can see it in the closet in this pic.  It is a lit storage space and the girls are getting a rug for it and some cushions and they are going to have a hang out in there.

Here is the after.  Keep in mind the before pictures were taken midday and these were at night it is still that much brighter!!

We chose prelude for the top color and then good old tea biscuit for the bottom half.  It took 11 hours straight to prime and paint this!!!  If I ever meet the person who lived here before me I am going to punch him in the face!!. 

It really opened it up and it looks bigger and much brighter.

Here is one before and after (ps all the junk ;laying around was stuff the people before left behind!!)

Much better I can't wait to go see it during the day.

I haven't seen it during the day because I had a lazy snuggle day with max james after all that work!!Well I have to get dinner out of the oven :) Have a good one guys.

our bedroom progress.

This weekend I spend so much time painting my hands are sooo sore and my back is killing me but I have tons to share with you guys.  I thought I would start with my bedroom.  Here is a pic of the before.

As you can see this wall has some lovely hunter green and a weird khaki going on..

On the other walls is some great wood paneling...yup more.

Well me and my amazing neighbor/gf sam spend all day saturday working and here is the finished project in there.  We have tea biscuit on the bottom and undeniable on the top.

We chose to leave the paneling on the top so that it ties in with the beams in the vaulted ceiling.

Here is the other wall.

The closets will be getting white doors.

Here is the walls before and after one on top of the other.

So long hunter green.

and good bye wood paneling..

I know I am going to feel much more at home with this look.  I can't wait to get my things in there and make a few other changes ...first up the light fixture lol better scroll back if you missed that bad boy.

see you soon guys.