Yellow

We finished the room just in time for our friends to us it. It still needs a few things hung, but we haven't figured out what those items are yet. All of the furniture came back from John's grandfather's farm. It needed a bit of love and John did a great job at cleaning it up.

See the green box on the floor? It also came from the farm. At one time it held the feedsack fabric used to make the quilt on the bed. As you can see the sunlight is very good in this room, so good that I couldn't get a picture of the roman shades I made. I am happy with the way they turned out.

We are now thinking of the next redo. I think the dining room is the next target. But that is going to be a challenge since we need window treatments, chairs redone, a new light fixture. If it turns out as good as this room I will be very happy.

A new room is emerging

In between Christmas and New Year's Day we decided to take on a project. As you may know the whole house needs something done to it. We have 2 guest bedrooms and one was just being used to hold stuff. Forgive me for not being able to track down before pictures. They exist somewhere and when I find them I will post the wallpaper shots.

The best feature about this room is that window. It's a window and a door. Outside the door is a balcony about 4 feet wide and just over half the house long. I wish this was the master bedroom but it is way too small.

We wanted to go yellow in this room:

That was not what we were expecting. A bit to lemon. Here's how it looks now:

After a couple tries, John was able to lighten the yellow into 2 shades. The walls are darker than the ceiling and the trim pops off the yellow. Floors are next, see you soon.

A bit more of the garden

We had a new roof put on the garage, so that delayed working on the garden for a bit. The area had weed already starting, but thanks to vinegar and a sprayer we were able to kill them without have to worry about the dogs. While they were dying we set short posts in the ground for a fence. When we installed our new fence last year we have low sections that left us with 2' sections. We will be using them to surround the garden. In the last picture you can see the roof vent has been placed. On the left side of the picture there is a pile of free mulch the City gives away. We are going to be using as ground cover to keep the weeds away. The weather is supposed to warm up this week, so hopefully the more hardy plants can get put into the ground.

Oh yes, and we do own the tiller!

Living Room for under $400.00

We took on the project of doing the living room early this past fall. The goal was to get it done by Thanksgiving. When we bought the house it was all done on the same pallet...

Yep, the whole house. It took us about 3 weeks, but we were able to transform the room to this:

Since we are always looking for a deal, John was found the window treatments. The cornices had to be resized a bit, but we got lucky and one of the end cornices fit perfectly so we (along with John's mom) had a template for the other three. Since all we had to purchase was the paint and window treatments, we were able to transform the room for under $400. Hopefully this is a theme for the whole house.

You may have noticed the carpet remained. That story is for another day.

Update: The colors in this room are:
Main Walls: Benjamin Moore Fresh Butter 290
Fireplace Wall: Benjamin Moore Showtime 294
Trim: Pratt & Lambert Arrowroot

A Welcome...

I have been wondering how I would start this blog. I guess the best way is to start a year after purchasing it with what we have been doing recently and look back over the past year while also looking forward. Even though Valentine's Day has recently passed it was only the middle of January before we started new projects around the house. Christmas tends to take over our houses and with this being the first Christmas in one house it really exploded and didn't come down until after january 16th.

There are other pictures for another time, but to give a hint, the purple tree rotates and has a orange twin not in the picture. If I recall we had 39 throughout the house this year.

Current projects are the banister,  being redone by John:

and the entry way by me:

Since this is day one of what I hope to be many posts I will keep this short.