Our Bathroom Transformation!

This has been a loooong time coming-- and I can't believe I'm finished!

When we bought our little house in July 2008, one of the first things we did was replace the carpet in the bathrooms (yuck) with ceramic tile. These bathrooms were a mess! Carpet, horrible wallpaper (on un-primed drywall no less!!) Every time I even thought about tackling that room I practically broke out in hives. But, I am proud to say that it is finished!! A lot of blood, sweat and yes- actual tears were shed but I am so thrilled!

Here is her transformation:

and after the tile, we worked on the hideous wallpaper! The previous owners decided to be lazy and put their tacky wallpaper on bare drywall. It was an absolute nightmare to deal with. I had to remove the paper, patch the walls, prime about a million times, texturize the walls and actually paint them...

See the little hook? The bathroom didn't have anywhere to put towels and we couldn't figure out a good placement for a towel rack. So, I decided to use a hook instead. This one is a 3M Command hook- so it was super easy to install and will be easy to remove or reposition it if we ever get tired of it. And we finally have a place for our hand towel!

I'm married to a 12 year old.

Mike shaved his beard. I prefer him with the beard and he agrees to have one in the fall & winter-- but since it's spring, it came off!

He looks so young!!
P.S.- here's a pic of Mike with his beard:

randomness

I was erasing all my saved pictures from my camera today and found a few to blog about. Yeah, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for a blog post!

that's a topiary behind me, I don't have green hair!

Mike is out of town (Boston!! I'm jealous.) which means Jack Bauer can do all kinds of naughty things-- like jump on the couch and pose. Dad would not be happy!

And now some house pics:

I love these little houses on the mantel- they're from Pier One.

and I picked up some more books at the flea market- I love using them around the house.

a real grown-up bedroom. part one

When Mike and I moved in together back in August of 2005 (yes, we lived in sin until we got married in November 2006!) we had such a hodge podge of furniture. Everything was a hand me down, some better than others. Over time we've slowly replaced almost everything-- except the bedroom. Mike received a great yearly bonus last week and with some of it we're getting a privacy fence for the back yard and new bedroom furniture! Here's what we're getting:

We decided on the Canopy line of furniture from Walmart. Now before you have visions of tacky particle board crap, relax-- I did my research! The Canopy stuff is solid hardwood, with a birch veneer. It's really substantial heavy furniture. 

We have new nightstands:

a new tall 5 drawer dresser:

and the long 6 drawer dresser:

check out the resemblance between the Pottery Barn Hudson dresser with the Canopy dresser:

plus the Canopy dresser is only $299 (well, $270 with our discount!) compared to $1599.00 for the PB Hudson.

The long 6 drawer dresser should arrive next week, and I can't wait to share pictures of our totally revamped room! For now, here's a few shots of just part of it:

I think this shows a better shot of the wood tone:

Oh, and did I mention I talked Mike into a new flat screen for the bedroom? LOL What can I say, it's been a good week!!

I can't wait to post the finished room in a week or two!

May 15th!!

We already have tickets. I am so excited!!!

a preview of the preview

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It's March 1st!!!

That means it's time to start putting out some spring touches:

-and yes the flowers are fake *gasp* but they're made out of paper and I think they're kind of interesting and cool. So there.

I'm working on some major sewing projects today. If I don't screw it up too badly I'll post about it later this week.