Master Bedroom

The master bedroom is now finished! I may eventually add some more art work to the walls, but for now I'm pretty happy with how it looks. This room basically received a giant face lift, new carpet, lighting, paint, base and trim and a new closet organizer and doors.

Here are the before pictures:


And the master now:
right now my favorite part of the whole room is the ceiling fan, it makes such a big difference in cooling the room down at night.

The back splash went on in the kitchen yesterday so now all it is waiting for is the crown around the top of the cabinets and two cabinet doors, and then it too shall be done! I'm still amazed at how quickly everything is coming together.

Bathroom!

I am really excited about this post. The bathroom and the kitchen were the most extensive parts of the renovation, and the bathroom is now finished! Jake promised me yesterday that he wouldn't shower until he had the shower curtain hung up, and he really likes his showers. Once that promise was made he was up at 6 this morning hanging the shower bar. (Sigh, isn't he great?).

So, to remind you of what we started with, here is the before pictures of the bathroom:




Gross. Besides being really outdated, it was really not a good layout with the massive counter taking up so much of the floor space.

And here is the bathroom today:




I love it, it turned out so perfect. And it feels so much bigger now, with that big useless counter gone.

Liam's play area

Things have been pretty busy around here lately, between the beautiful sunshine, working some shifts, camping, working on things around the house, Liam's four new molars and all the other many things that come up in a day it is never very dull around here. On top of that, there are guys working in the basement every day (yay!) but it happens to be right under Liam's bedroom so his naps have had to be elsewhere every week day. Between all that I haven't had too much time to sit down and think, much less blog.

I should also mention that I have a gorgeous washer and dryer sitting downstairs taunting me, they aren't hooked up yet so yesterday my mom so graciously let Liam and I crash her place for five hours to do laundry and nap. She even fed us dinner on top of all that! (thanks mom).


It feels like the only parts of the house I care about are the ones that have to do with Liam. That's not really true, but they do happen to be the areas that are all finished because those parts of the reno's only involved "face lift" type projects that were all done pretty quick! I am really eager to post the before and after pictures of the kitchen and bathroom because those are the most dramatic, but they are still waiting on a few things. I believe the kitchen backsplash is going in this week, we were just waiting on a few tiles, so once that is finished I will post pictures!

Here is the old stereo cabinet that was built in. With a fresh coat of paint, new shelves inside and new door knobs I think it looks so much better:

Before:and After:

And what would likely be considered the dining room area before:

And after:

And finally, Liam's favorite new thing, cuddling with the dog. He isn't much into cuddling with his momma, but when Henk is hanging out inside all Liam wants to do is lay down with him.

Moved in and Liam's bedroom finished!

We are all moved in now! Well, at least all our stuff is here and we are living in the house. Moving day went really smoothly, a huge thanks to all the people that came out to help! By eleven everything had been moved over and brought into the house, and by the early afternoon much of it was already unpacked. I am really excited to post some before and after pictures of each room of the house. I still am amazed at how quickly it all went, three weeks and the house was ready!

I don't want to share pictures of each room until they are all finished, and we seem to be waiting on just a few things for each room. The kitchen needs the backslash and two cupboard doors, the family room is waiting on one light, the master bedroom still needs a light, and the bathroom needs a few minor things like a shower curtain. The only room completely finished is Liam's bedroom, so I will share some pictures of that.


I didn't get a good before picture of Liam's room, but it was mainly a face lift that was needed. New paint, doors, base board, two of the walls had some 60's paneling that needed to come off, new carpet and a new light. I am really happy with the finished room, its perfect for a little boy, and he seems to like that he can go to it on his own to play. In our old place his bedroom was downstairs so it was really only used for sleeping in.

I will hopefully be finished another room soon and post again in a day or two with some good before and after pictures.

Here are some pictures of the house progress. We move in on Thursday and its looking like we will have it close enough to finished by then. I won't be updating again until we are moved in, so check back in a week to see some finished house!

Here is the kitchen:



Liam's bedroom:


Master Bedroom:


And the railing!

Liam's Chair

Typically when I go to a second hand store I already have a picture of exactly what I am looking for. This doesn't just happen when I go to second hand stores, it also happens when I go clothes shopping or any other form of shopping. I'm not one to sift through stuff hoping to be inspired, because if I don't need it, chances are I don't want it, and I am really not a fan of clutter. Needless to say, I don't often find exactly what I am looking for, but maybe something similar that I can adapt.

Well, on two occasions now I have had the pleasure of walking into a thrift store and finding exactly what I was looking for. Here is one of them:



Besides the obvious flaws (its pink, and the wood is a light birch) it was near perfect! I was looking for this style of child's chair, with something that I could reupholster without too much difficulty. Liam seems to really like sitting in it too. And climbing on it. And using it to get to things he shouldn't be getting to.


With a little white spray paint and some new fabric I think it looks pretty cute! I have yet to recover the foot stool. I was using my left over fabric from Liam's quilt, and didn't quite have enough to do the stool. That will come later. The re-upholstering was a little more challenging that I initially thought, I salvaged the zippers for the back from the old fabric, and learned the easy way of sewing in zippers! But overall it was only about an hours worth of work for something that I am pretty happy with.

Backyard!

We got a fair amount done at the house today! It is getting to the point where every time I come something new is being done and it is starting to look so good! Jake has been working very hard, and well into the evenings, to get lots of this done. He's doing such an amazing job. Again, a huge thank you to all our family and friends that come out to help us out too, it makes such a difference.

Today, my sister was able to take Liam so that I could help out with raking and seeding the backyard. It looks so much bigger now that the jungle is gone. Here is a before picture:



And the after:


A huge thank you to my niece Larissa and my nephew Alex for helping out with it today! They helped a lot with all the raking, rolling and seeding that went on.


Here is a picture of my two favorite renovators! Don't let the serious photo trick you, they are really quite friendly.



Liam came after his nap in the afternoon and he was in his glory! I have never seen the boy so dirty, and yet so happy.