Facelift

As usual I am behind in keeping our home improvement updates current. So in order to get back on track I'm going to take you back to two weekends ago when I decided to paint the guest bedroom.

I knew Jessica and Dan were coming to visit and figured it was time to get my act together and move out the boxes to make room for their stay. Since the guest room would be empty, once the boxes were moved of course, I decided that this would be my opportunity to paint. So after deciding on a color I got to work. Unfortunately I forgot to take before photos. But just imagine cream colored walls and a bunch of boxes in the middle of the room. Yeah not too hard to imagine.

After:

As you can see there is no 'real' furniture in there yet, but our plan is to get new bedroom furniture and then put our black Ikea furniture in there. Until then this is our guest bedroom and anyone is welcome to come and stay!

Stay tuned I will be posting throughout this next week about my dinning room transformation...ooooo...ahhhh
Sven's new toy
and recapping our time with Jessica, Dan and Mabry

My Favorite Girl

I just spent the last five days with this girl...

Mabry and her parents drove up to Pennsylvania last Tuesday to come and see our new home. While they were here we painted the dinning room, mulched our flower beds, played at the park, shopped, went out to dinner and enjoyed each others company. It was sad to say goodbye to them last night, but hopefully it will only be a few more months until we get to see them again!

4th of July Weekend

This past weekend Sven and I did a lot of work around the house. Having a three day weekend really helped us get a lot accomplished. Thursday night after work Sven and I headed to Lowe's and picked up a 5-gallon bucket of white paint to paint the garage and part of the basement. I know what you're thinking...the garage and basement?!?! But in all seriousness I'm not 100% set on what colors the rooms in our house should be painted and we wanted to paint the garage anyways, especially before Sven starts building the shelving for storage in there.

Before

After

Sven has the next seven days off of work so the plan is to get the garage more organized so that we can actually park our cars in it!

This past weekend we also decided that painting the garage wasn't enough, so we decided to tear down the wallpaper in our half bath and paint it. It was the only room that we knew what color we wanted for sure.

Before, our walls had a lovely, I mean ugly, marble 'looking' wallpaper.

With a wallpaper scorer and wallpaper strip mixture the wallpaper came off SO easily. After

A Work In Progress

We still do not have the Internet at our house. Supposedly we will have it today, but we'll see! Anyways I have promised pictures, so here are a few of the downstairs that I took yesterday. As you can see there is still a lot of unpacking to be done. My plan is to tackle it this weekend and hopefully get things more organized and then to take more updated pictures. But for now this is it...

Front of the house and there is a two car garage to the left.

Family Room (We're trying to figure out an entertainment center, which is why there is blue tape on the walls)

Picture of the new lamps from mom and dad!

Kitchen. As you can see the refrigerator is not in the proper place but that is because it was too big and we're redoing the kitchen anyways. So instead of buying one to fit in there, which was more expensive since it was a special size, we opted to get what we wanted knowing that the kitchen is getting redone. (We already have it planned out!)

Standing in the living room, looking into the dinning room.

I will keep posting more over the next week to show what we did this past weekend, as well as what we continue to do on the house. So stay tuned...

Giveaway

In a prior post I mentioned how my sister opened up an etsy store called ShabbySheebus. Well in honor of her husband's ten years with the Army next week she is hosting a giveaway where some lucky winner will get a $25 gift card to her store. To enter all you have to do is leave her a comment on her blog. You can also get extra entries for blogging and twittering about her giveaway. Easy and simple...so hurry on over now!

All images taken from ShabbySheebus

We're Home!

Sven and I became official homeowners this past Friday. Everything ended up going as planned and with the help from his family we were able to move out of our apartment and into our home this past weekend. Good thing about moving from an apartment is that you don't have much stuff. So even though the whole moving process took some time, unpacking has been quite easy. As soon as we get the Internet at our house, which should be tomorrow, I will post some pictures of our home. So stay tuned...