Sadie's Nursery

Sadie's nursery has a navy, coral, and gold color scheme with mint accents. I wanted it to be girly without being so girly it couldn't grow with her. I have to thank my mom for sewing the bedding again! I created the prints and printed myself for her collage over her bed. I made felt roses to jazz up the lamp shade over her bed as a mobile. Painted the junk store dresser and old door headboard, I made for my room as a teen, to match. Then, Dean and I painted the canvas in the coordinating colors. I am very please with how it turned out, pictures just don't do it justice in my opinion. With the contrast of navy walls and white wainscoting, it is almost impossible to get a good picture, for this non-photographer!

Here is the board of all the ideas I used and some I didn't. Enjoy!

Dean's Nursery Then and Now

This is Dean's Nursery before he arrived. You can see his lamp isn't sitting on top of the freshly finished dresser, and there is no changing pad there yet. Pretty much ever piece of furniture was refinished, given to us, or bought second hand. My mother made the bedding and window treatments, and we made all the shelves and the map out of all license plates.

This is his room now without the crib. We moved the crib out and moved Dean to his big boy bed. He did great! No issues at all. On the bare wall, I made a clock and toy storage buckets and hangers to match the car tag map. I think it turned out cool!

This is how it looks on an average day. :)

Here is my pinterest board with a bunch of ideas including the plans for the ledges and floating shelves.
Follow Marley Sullivan's board Little Boy Room on Pinterest.

Bathroom Mirror Project

I updated my guest bathroom mirror with a frame. You can see the before here http://sullytown.blogspot.com/2010/05/guest-bathroom-remodel.html This is before it was painted, but it was a large improvement. Eventually I want to put molding on the top like the project plan I followed.

This is the pinterest project I found to go by.

Mud Room Project

I call it a mud room, but it is my hallway. I found a project on pinterest I desperately needed to do in my back hallway. We don't have a laundry room or mud room, it is a hallway and the laundry room is in a closet. This has been a great asset to our house for hanging jackets, keys, bags, and laundry as I am putting up clothes.

This is the project I followed from pinterest.

Master Bath Remodel

I am finally going to reveal the transformation of my master bathroom. It was the most drastically changed room of our house. We had to rip up carpet, yucky bathroom carpet, rip out wall paper, yucky bambo floor to ceiling wallpaper, and remove antique toilet and sink before we could paint the walls, have someone else hang crown molding, after we tried :), put up beadboard, wainscoting, and baseboards, install new lighting, install the re-purposed dresser vanity, install the new toilet and new shower fixtures, and hang curtains. Sounds easy, but some things were easy and some were a nightmare. So here are the before and afters.

The Vanity. New lighting and new vanity.


The tub. I love this tub, but we still want to get it refinished.


The toilet. Not a good shot of the new toilet, but you get the picture.


And the shower area, complete with new curtains.


On of my favorite things in my bathroom is my new vanity. We took an antique dresser, refinished, cut the hole in the top for the sink, and cut out the back and some of the drawer space to fit the plumbing.

And wallah, we have a new vanity.

Guest Bathroom Remodel

We finished our kitchen in time for Bunco, but I still had one room left I really wanted to completely redo. That was the guest bath. With three weeks between Bunco and Easter, I pressured my sweat hubby into getting the guest bath complete so we could host Easter this year. My plan worked. He loves hosting get-togethers, so he got our tub refinished, the tile down, the old fixtures out, and the new fixtures in, with my help of course, in three weeks! I painted of course. :) So if you don't remember what our bathroom looked like before here is a reminder.
Our bathroom was complete with pink toilet, pink tub, and pink wall mounted sink that was enhanced by the exposed plumbing underneath. We were also blessed with yellowish linoleum flooring and again floor to ceiling wallpaper which was blue with pink flowers. When I decided that I would start to tackle this bathroom, I thought to myself, "I wonder how hard it is going to be to take down that wallpaper." So, as I was thinking this, I snuk to the bathroom, and grabbed a piece and yanked it. The entire piece came off in one pull, and I had the bathroom wallpaper free in 30 minutes. That really got me rolling, and this is the final product.
We got rid of all the pink, and replaced the toilet and added a black vanity with white marble top and brushed nickel accents. We added porcelain tile floors and painted the walls. We added a new vanity light fixture, but by compromise only did the large mirror stay. I am thinking about framing it out with a ledge like a window, painted out black. I love it. It feels spa-like, yet it could be changed with a new shower curtain and accents to be a kid's bathroom, which it is getting closer to being since I am so close to having the house the way I want it. :)

Sorry no tub shots yet, we still have to put back the fixtures. :)

Kitchen Remodel

I haven't been posting much this year because I have been swamped with work. Work work, house work, second job work, church work, and trying to make time for me time. The going going going is really weighing on my energy these days. I reached 36 pounds lost, but have been staying at that for the past couple of weeks because I have no energy. Back to the work discussion. We really have been working to get our house the way I want it, so that when a kid comes along, we won't be stuck where we are with the house. So I am ready to start revealing our home improvements. We have worked in both the master and guest baths, updated furniture and curtains in the living room, and revamped our kitchen. I am going to start today showing you our kitchen remodel.

If you will recall our outdated kitchen complete with old off white appliances, sheet linoleum flooring, and floor to ceiling stripped wallpaper.


We thought about removing the wallpaper, but unfortunately, well fortunately for the amount of work that lessened, there was a couple of layers of wallpaper on top of paneling that was spackled smooth. So we found a solution to painting over wallpaper, prime twice, sand seems, paint. Once we had our new appliances, we first tackled the floor, well my husband did. Then we painted out the cabinets, painted the walls, and nailed up bead board for the back splash, the cheapest easiest to install solution I found. So without anymore delay....


.....I present........




.... our new kitchen....





Complete with my favorite color GREEN, walls, black cabinets, bead board back splash, freshly tiled ceramic floors, and brand new stainless steel appliances. Our countertops look more in style now with the black contrast. I even watched a show on HGTV the other day that said that these type countertops were back in style. My budget and design are happy. :)
Shall I reveal our living area, our master bath, or our guest bath next week? Hmm... I have a decision to make.

Facelift

I so desperately want to expand my living room area, I also in the future want to change the front look of my house. The front is so plain. Right now we have a inset porch that takes away our living area, so I would like to close it in and have that area for our living room. Then I want to add a porch with that adding to the roof line. In doing so I can either do siding under the porch or try to reuse the brick somehow. I also want to change out the windows one day, and paint the shutters black. Another option that I like would be to white wash the brick.

This is my house now...

And this is my house after photoshopping a porch in.

I like this porch because it is like most houses of the period of my house, but it has a different face to it making it look up-to-date. The options shown here include, with and without siding and with or without white washing. I know I won't be doing this anytime soon, but I like to know what I want in my house. That way I have something to look forward to, and to plan and save for.

Progress

So we've made a little progress this week. We have the bathroom tile down and grouted. I painted the walls a nice color called Buxton Blue, from Benjamin Moore, and I have started cutting and putting up the base boards, and wainscoting. I love progress!!!!

Here is the tile. Beautiful! Well worth the work.Here is the beaded board and the paint color. I got a few pieces in before bed.

I will show overall shots of the room when it is done!

Where I've Been

Okay so I have not been blogging for a while, and here is my reason why.

My lovely house. The house has a lot of additions, but the bathrooms were so out of date. So this is the bathroom before. That is not before I started removing the yucky wall paper. Not only did it have wallpaper, but it had nasty carpet. So we gutted it. Out with everything. We got rid of the sink and toilet, but moved the tub to the bedroom for the time being.
Now to the part that has been taking so long, the tile. Love it! Hate the process. This picture is of the hallway, we are tiling it as well. So it is taking longer than i would have hoped, but a few more days and I will be able to get the wainscoting, trim, and paint on the walls. I promise to keep you as up-to-date as possible.