Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

In a follow up to my last post, here are some other awesome little expressions of my house love. When we moved in last year (14 months ago already?!?!?), we painted all the walls this sort of grey color (Burnished Clay, actually), and did the trim nice and white. I've been adding color in spots as I go. One day when I was at Home Depot, I spotted two cans of paint in really lovely but sort of dark hues. I picked them both up for $10 total and set to scheming about where they would end up. The first one ended up in the master bedroom. B even helped me paint. Which then ended up with her spilling the entire gallon of paint. Luckily there was a paint tarp between the can and my lush white carpets, or this would have been one seriously expensive project. The paint and the frame cost about $25. I made a painting above the bed for now with craft paints I had around(but I have serious plans about what is going to eventually end up there!) (BEFORE) (DURING) (AFTER - taken a...

I've been chipping away at my Vision for our humble abode over the past few months. I think the last thing I posted about was tiling the backsplash back when Mom and Dad came down in December. I thought I'd post some pics of the stuff we've taken on since then, and maybe someday go into more detail. (But probably not!) The first and biggest - the guest bath. We actually took the time to do it right, and it turned out amazing. 3 months and about $1400 later, here's what we accomplished: (BEFORE) (DURING) (AFTERS) The rest of our projects have been smaller in scope and easier on our sanity. I put up wall art in the back living room, and made a set of hanging shelves to go in front of the sliding glass door (the part that doesn't slide). The shelves were my first real attempt at doing anything with wood, and they came out splendidly. Two pieces of wood, some chain and hooks, and some leftover stain and polyurethane I found in the garage. Add the pl...