A Few More Before and Afters

Couldn't find the "before" photo for the blue stool, but this another old thing we had sitting around that I've painted and fixed up for a photog prop. There's also the in-progress "old" sunroom "new" office. Started it one night right before school started back and haven't picked up a roller or brush since----guess I need to get back on that soon! :)

Then the seriously Old metal egg basket. Had to really sweet talk my Dad and Paw-paw into letting me have it...even though it was just sitting outside an old shed! Old-er people are so funny how they don't want to give up their old stuff sometimes. I think once they see how I've prettified it, they will be glad they parted with it. :) At least I'm REALLY glad they did...a little newborn nugget wrapped in a blanket is going to be sooo cute sleeping in that basket! :) STOKED.

Julie's Old Chair Before and After

Before and Afters make me so happy! This is what we did to an old chair that was Julie's when she was a little nugget! She has pictures of herself sitting in this chair and she was OH SO CUTE! Since she's been scanning some to make digital copies for her Mom, I will have to post some soon!

This chair is going to make the cutest photo prop!

Something More Positive

When mpix was having an 8x10 print sale, we stocked up and I did this to the fireplace the other night. DON'T freak out you brick preservers...it's just double sided sticky tabs holding them up there, nothing permanent. Obviously there's still some more prints to be bought to finish the bottom...but I love how this turned out.

It totally makes us smile. :)

Summer Project: More Changes To The Laundry Room

A week or so ago we finally installed the curtain we've been talking about installing for months! This is the curtain that covers up the washing machine, dryer and cabinets. We also bought these awesomely colored bags to hold our recyclables (as you can see one bag needs to seriously be emptied). Another addition which was interesting to try and get a photo of being orange against an orange wall is the flexible Tubtrug (that's really its name) to hold our aluminum cans. I love how it matches so well with the orange of the walls and how it's bendable. They come in so many different shapes and sizes, I even saw online where one was used as a sandbox for kids! They'd be great for any kind of storage and for classrooms too.



Next for this room and probably the last thing that will need to be done is to cover up the disgusting linoleum that doesn't match. Since it's expendable, I'm going to attempt to paint it white and coat it with polyurethane for protection. I figure if it looks screwed up, then there's not a huge loss, but if it works like I envision it, then it will look super snazzy with the white and orange that's already there.

Summer Project: Do Something With Ugly White Refrigerator!

I'm not saying all white refrigerators are ugly, but to us, ours was! There's no way we were going to get another refrigerator just so it would match the appliances (we wonder why they didn't all match when we bought the house) so I had to find another solution. I saw in a magazine where someone painted their fridge with chalkboard paint and then put enlargements of pictures on display...SO LOVED that idea. We still have to paint inside the crevices that the roller couldn't go. Also we like it better without the door handles for now---since they were white and couldn't be painted easily.
Before:

After: (Funny the difference in cabinet color just because of lighting--didn't feel like fixing that! The lighter version is how the cabinets usually look.)

While I had the fridge pulled out I decided four-five years was long enough to wait to paint BEHIND there! You couldn't see anything but a tiny strip on the side peeking out from behind, so it was never a priority. I also got on top of the refrigerator so that I could touch up some areas that needed another coat of the green. While I was up there I thought about how when I went to Open House weekend at VSU when I was deciding where to go to college, in the Art department there was a girl sitting on top of a Coke machine, drawing something in the hallway. I was all over that, I so wanted to be her "when I grew up." I'm pretty sure that-that image and the palm trees planted next to Spanish-style buildings, clinched the deal! :)


I wish I could say that I felt extremely COOL sitting on my fridge doing a little home renovation, but I mostly felt apprehensive about not wanting to fall and get stuck between the refrigerator and some cabinets!! :) Maybe I would have felt differently had it been a Pepsi machine!

Things Done and To Be Done: Guest bathroom

Earlier today I started thinking about the mental lists I have of all the things that we'd still like to do around the house...when we have more time and more importantly MORE money. I decided to start placing my mental list on my blog, to maybe free up some brain space for other things to think. :) That, and lists are so much better with pictures! (Please forgive the somewhat funky lighting in these pictures, the lighting is horrible in there.)
This is the hideousness before I painted. I am PRETTY sure it was the first room to get painted! I can't for the life of me understand why they would do this in a small space or in fact why they'd put that shade of blue with that brown anywhere in a house!! ACK!


We're covering up this horrendous flooring with red glass tiles (probably) that look something like this:


This shower curtain will be replaced with a red and white one...haven't found one that is suitable yet. I never knew that I had such a deep hatred for most shower curtains, but truthfully I think most shower curtains look completely tacky, cheap or trashy. I've found that I'm very picky about a shower curtain and would LOVE to not even have one, but have one of those cool showers that you step down in with tile surrounding everything and no shower curtain. That project is too pricey though and takes away money for eating and an eventual swimming pool, so won't be happening.

We've already changed the light fixture and painted the cabinet white. We've installed a new chrome faucet and chrome cabinet door handles. I want to switch out my painting for a different one. The mirror also needs to be smaller so that it fits underneath the light fixture properly.

We're keeping these 'hot and cold' shower curtain rings because they're nifty.

I want to take this digital picture I did off of this wall and put up a few other pictures in its place.

OH AND LOOK AT THIS!!

I should not have even typed in the words 'hot pink tile'--but I did and now I'm all like, "hot pink tile backsplash in the kitchen or hot pink painted backsplash with magnetic paint?!" Decisions, decisions. I like the hot pink that's on the top right!