Category Archives: Projects

Before & After Recent little projects {Dresser, Bed, & Chair}

Little Projects— cuz’ well I don’t have space right now for the big projects and I know craigslist has been missing me– it calls to me everynight and I ignore it and go cry into my pillow– oh Colorado’s Craigslist how I miss you so–

Anyways so I am almost positive I took some more pictures of these projects but ya I may not have who knows I’m pretty sure I’ve lost all my brain now with my third– there is no retention abilities left

So the only before picture I have of my little newborn bed prop

The after– and I love it– If only it was a little bit bigger I’d go cuddle up with a good book on it

And my last before and after is my favorite Dresser in the whole wide world– I named her Delila She’s been done for along time now but for some reason I never took her picture– she’s my Craft dresser and holds all my ribbon and hairbow making stuff, and craft paint and ya lots of yummy fun stuff.

and the knobs– I’ve loved glass knobs for a while and found these at hobby lobby and from than on she became my delila– my oh so petite girly dresser come on I can’t be the only one who names her furniture right?

Progress + Organization tips series

So things are chugging along in the basement– Today actually I’ll be tiling the bathroom I’m excited it’ll be with 18×18 tiles and I looovvvee big tiles

Just for a reminder here is the basement when I moved in:

It was well…… umm…….. slightly overrun with stuff– we’ll call it many fast quick moves and not enough time to go through it all or fix it all up.

Here’s after the first day…

The first step {in this pretty much overwhelming project for me} was to start separating stuff out and making piles, I knew my parents didn’t want all this stuff and a lot of it could go to DI but I had to get approval on what could go and what had to stay, so I had to make piles that later my mom could come down and check off and confirm what was okay to be gone.

Here’s the currently…..

and ya a lot of steps are missing in between (and a lot of time but it was just too hard to document a project this big cuz’ half the time I was too frustrated to feel like it would actually ever get clean and I just had to force myself to keep going and face those scary spiders hiding in those nasty cardboard boxes {ughhhhhhh}

The storage room still isn’t quite done– but really it’s the best I could do with what they wanted to keep (and they did get rid of a lot so it was a great first step– and I’m still part of the family-yay- they didn’t disown me or want to kill me-most the time- so that’s really Really good

And now were on to the next step of finishing the basement– the actual fun stuff! Wish me Luck!

But….. also I’ve decided that it’d be kinda fun to do some organization tips on my blog every so often… I love to organize, and do fall and spring cleaning- (ya I might be slightly crazy but hey at least I can admit it!:)) so…I’m introducing my…….

{ps. I  know I am no professional and I myself am thinking “geez who am I to be all high and mighty and give tips” but I do know some and it couldn’t hurt, could it??? right??? right?? and if you have some great tips to by all means share them in the comments of the posts we’ll just all share and learn it’ll be great }

Before & After

Okay I don’t know how else to do this but be ready for about a million pictures

it’s a sad sad day though– I never took a pic of the kitchen with our new table and at least decorated a little bit

Don’t you just love those maroon blinds yes yes sadly they had to go

Don’t you absolutely love the Mnt. Dew basement– I’m guessing they just really loved Mt. Dew green Dave so wanted to paint a Mnt.Dew Logo on the wall but I said umm no.

now on to the upstairs….

Bryn’s room actually went though the most paint colors (but didn’t it have awesome ronald mcdonald colors at first :))– first I painted it pink-ugh to bright of a color than light blue turned out to white and finally I just painted it to match the rest of the house when we put it on the market

We did do the front landscaping a little bit but alas I never took a pic– ya sometimes I get lazy

And that is the tour of a yr of my life

The Fireplace Redo

So when we moved into the house one of the major things that was frustrating and really a bugger was the fireplace— I mean a Sheetrock mantle?? really? Who ever thought those looked good? and the hole for the T.V. didn’t fit Dave’s “man” T.V. So I knew I wanted to change it- but I didn’t know what into? I didn’t want to spend to much money either or do any major floor plan changes– So needless to say it sat there forever – I couldn’t figure out a way to make it look better– well a way that both me and Dave could agree on too

Here’s the Before:

I did immediately paint the walls and trim when we moved in so it looked a little better  but I don’t have any pictures of that- or how horrible it looked when we had our tv just sitting on the ledge– with the wires hanging everywhere– It was great- let me tell ya.

Here it is Now:

This was the first project that I didn’t really have at least a vague plan for– We really just flew by the seat of our pants on this one— One day still looking at the eyesore the next demoing it cuz’ I couldn’t stand it anymore

gotta love a sexy man with a saws-all :)

When we finally figured out kinda what we were gonna do there was some major angle math figuring involved– all I can say is that I am glad Dave is so smart cuz’ I would have never been able to figure it out

We did live with it like this for awhile– while we tried to figure out how we were gonna finish it Fun times- fun times.

 But hallelujah– It’s done– I like it- Our T.V. fits– and really we spent only about $100 to do it–What do you think yay or Nay on the redesign?

Linking to these parties
Fingerprints on the fridge
Shabby Nest
Tidy Mom
Remodelaholics
Just a Girl

Farmhouse table

So the table has actually been done for awhile, but with the busyness of March so far I hadn’t even had time to take pictures of it— but now she can finally have her debut—–

(if you don’t know what I’m talking about go listen to Brian Regan- I love him he makes me laugh so hard

So if you recall the before:

Lovely hunter green-hmmm–

Stain- already had it— that’s the good thing with many projects but to buy would have been around $12