Projects

As most of you know, we have purchased a home last month. It's still mostly work in progress but we are hopefully nearing an end soon. Here are a few pictures to show you some of the work we've done so far.
The entire house was painted white and after living in a mostly white apartment we decided we needed a bit of color. I have always loved blue and white so I decided to go with a deep blue accent wall and keep my separator wall white.

This was the only room in the house that was not white. This is now the girls room which is now a beautiful purple color. We also decided that we wanted all of the bedrooms to have carpet so it was up to us to pull up all the existing flooring in preparation for the new carpeting....Lots of work. There is also a hall right outside of the bedrooms that had a whitish/pink tile....that had to go. We were hoping they could carpet right over the tile but to our dismay they told us it all had to go. Kelly wasn't too thrilled but I talked him into it. After 2 days of destruction we go it all out. We felt a bit over our heads with that project but now the hall is all carpeted and I am loving our choice and loving my hubby for all the hard work he has put into "our" home.

This is our dining room/living room. It had tile and it wasn't really that bad but it just wasn't us. We decided to install laminate. Actually, it had a bunch of pits in it that trapped dirt and made it look really dirty. This too was another decision I'm loving. After attempting to save the baseboards we realized that whoever installed them, didn't do it correctly, therefore making the attempt at "saving" the baseboards impossible.


In this picture, Kelly is prepping the flooring for laminate. The floor took us a few days to finish but I think Kelly and I are now masters at laminate installation.

We have most of our big projects completed. We are still finishing up 1 more bathroom and need a new hose for the downstairs bathroom and our final project is installing baseboards throughout the house. We have a few rooms officially completed but our house still looks like a war zone with boxes strewn here and there. The baseboard project was put on temporary hold after Kora knocked Kelly's nail gun down the stairs and we thought it was broken. Surprisingly, after a few days, Kelly tried it again and it worked. "It's a miracle!" So, we can start working on baseboards again. It has been a long tiring process and many times both Kelly and I have wondered why we wanted to become home owners so badly but at the end of the day we look around and we see that this is ours. We can paint it the colors we want, we can pick out the flooring we want, we can destroy and repair anything we want, because it's all ours. I'm so grateful for my sweet Hubby. I really couldn't ask for a better man. Love that man!