Step by Step

So the progress is...not much.  The good news is the bathroom is painted, oh and the mirror is painted, but the bathroom is not 100% complete just yet.  But let's revisit some old pictures..by old I mean pictures of the house when it was on the market, this was not our furniture.

The family room with the previous owner's things

Now onto our room:

The color change makes such a difference!  We still obviously need to get the wires from the TV taken care of and moved.  We also need to hang some stuff up on the walls. 

Here are some before and after pictures of the mirror in the bathroom.  Here is what I started with, a gold oval mirror.  The color did not match the fixtures, instead of buying a brand new mirror, I brought spray paint.  The longest part of the process was covering the mirror with newspaper.

Here is the final product, I realize it is hard to tell what it looks like with the paper on it, but it looks good.  AND, it was only a $5 makeover!  When I post pictures of the completely re-done bathroom, the changes with the mirror will be more obvious.

Fingers crossed that my next post will have my new bathroom reveal!





'Cause It's Friday, Friday....

I am exhausted.  We have only been in school three weeks and I feel like waking up at 5:45 in the morning is getting harder everyday, shouldn't it be getting easier?!?!  But, the good news is that it's a three day weekend.  But, the bad news is that David has to work.all.weekend.

My goal, or should I say goals, this weekend is to get some stuff done around the house.  Priority #1 is to finish the bathroom on our main floor.  I need to finish the walls, hopefully I will have it done and get some good after pictures.  Then, I plan on painting the living room.  We didn't have a "formal living" room in our old house, so right now it is a dumping ground for things we have yet to unpack or hang up.  After I paint it, we plan on using it as an office. In the long term, we want to get a big desk and two chairs to face the desk.  Eventually we want to get plantation shutters on all the front windows of our house.  I can only imagine the expense.  We have two bay windows and a small window on the main floor to cover, then upstairs we have three windows in our bedroom, two in the guest room, and then one in the room above the garage....and that's only the front of the house!  Let's just say it will be a major expense.  Check out these lovely curtains that were left with the house.

Wow, those curtains!!  They need to GO.  I tried to sell them on craigslist, but no one was interested, I can't figure out why I didn't get any responses;)

Here is a picture from the formal living room, you can see the dining room beyond the stairs.  The dining room is another project within itself.

I have decided that next time people come visit us, they will be put to work:)