Long time No see

It's been awhile since I've updated here. Shortly after we decided to rip out the radio and fix the hole in the dining room wall we had a little surprise...

We're going to be changing some diapers around here!

Feburary I started coaching track, and getting quite a bit of morning sickness. It was rough around here for a couple months, so I took some time off from projects. I don't have much new to show you, but I do have this...  "Project Nursery"

 

Use it or Lose it?

This thing is in the middle of our dining room wall. It has an AM radio, and an intercom system. The radio works, the intercom ... worked once on move in day. There's only one speaker by the front door that I can find. I can't decide if we should rip it out or just leave it. Right now it's totally covered by the monster desk/hutch combo, but there's a chance we will someday not want a huge desk there. We're in the process of stripping wall paper, priming, and picking a paint color. We need to decide soon. What would you do?

No more cold showers!

This showerhead was losing so much water that our shower would be cold before we were even rinsed off.

Enter the Waterpik EcoFlow. We picked it up at Wal-mart for $25.



I can't get this dumb thing off. Wait. Why do you have my camera?


This shower head reduces the flow to 2 gallons per minute. I believe the old style shown above was using up to 8 gallons per minute. Hopefully we will use much less of the hot water in the tank, keeping our shower warm to the end.

Bathroom Paint

Remember this bathroom that caused me nightmares, and the vinegar that burned all the hair out of my nose?

We did finally get it painted.

Next up - replace that mirror with the broken light.

Bedroom Paint

 

 

 

 

 

Living Room - Before and After

Last week I finally made the big paint reveal. Today I want to show the progression that the living room has made so far. It started with out dated furniture and non-descript paint before we moved in. We immediately removed the dated brown carpet, and added our furniture. Most recently we painted the room Gobi Dessert by Behr paint (matched to Bleeker Beige of Benjamin Moore). Maria over at Colour me Happy recommended painting our blonde wood trim, and closet door. I was hesitant about covering the wood, but I am so happy with how it turned out. I feel like painting the closet door helped make the room more seamless, and easier to look at. We have lots of work left, but I am just so thrilled with how this is turning out so far. Thanks Maria!

Paint Reveal!

Finally!!! I have been waiting for my camera to get back from being repaired to take pictures of the paint we did in That 70's House.

I have to give a shout out to Maria Killam at Colour Me Happy. She is a professional color designer (? I think that's her title!), and she was willing to open up her blog to color questions one day. I jumped on the chance to get some advice on what color to paint my living room, since I have such awkwardly colored furniture that I don't want to replace yet.

Originally I was looking at some dark sage greens and beiges that would have been waaay too dark for our front room. Maria pointed me towards Bleeker Beige from the Benjamin Moore paint line. I love it!

I ended up color matching my Benjamin Moore sample with the color scanner in Home Depot, and came home with Gobi Desert from the Behr paint line for about half the price. We're on a budget since we are still paying on 2 houses at this point!

The camera does not do this paint job justice. We hired a friend to do the painting, and here are the results...

 

We even painted the front door!

 

 

Maria recommended painting all of our blonde wood. I was a tad hesitant to cover up natural wood, but I hated that blonde with a passion so we went for it. Such a good decision!

 

What are those spots?? I thought we got the camera fixed!

Maria also helped me out with our mess of a wall. She recommended covering the closet with paint, and we even got our friend to continue the white baseboard on the bottom of the door. It makes that wall look much more seamless.

Here is the progression of work on this wall...

 

Do you think I should paint the hinges and knob?

 

We even continued the paint down the hallway and covered all of the blonde doors. Looove it!

 

 

 

So that's our paint job in the living room... We still have the pictures to hang in several spots, and then we are off into the bedroom!