Tuesday, August 31, 2010

you can hug me like a bean....

Progress is good-really good-even when the hubster says, on a Thursday evening at 6pm "Hey (Friend X) is coming over to help me do that wall in Gwen's room" "oh cool, when?" "um-now..."

mmmkayyyy....meaning the room must be cleared and temporary new homes found for all its inhabitants-in about 30 min.
(*breathe deeply, think on all the sweet and wonderful things about the man you married, swallow snarky comments, help him move the 10 billion toys from your daughters room and into-wait for it-OUR ROOM!! YAY!)

actually-its not really that bad-I'm overjoyed to see things change from obscenely ugly:

to just-unfinished:



and these sorts of things he does totally make up for it:)


Also! We found something neat underneath the old sheet-rock and 2 layers of wallpaper! Someone wrote :
"you can hold me like a bean, let me sit on your lap. EW+UR"

which, is weird and makes no sense...BUT it must have been from when the house was built-so 80 years old. I'm thinking it was a private joke between lovers. Or people in the 30's had strange ideas about romance...

any idea what that might mean?

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

the ugly room transformation !







Hurrah! we have begun ladies and gents ( well just ladies I guess) last Saturday we sheet-rocked the "ugly room" so now its a not so ugly room! Here it is Before:

ew right

this is the old wall paper that was underneath the old sheet rock-i think its kind of cool...



My dad is the mud KING he just slaps that stuff up there


I on the other hand feel like I am literally "slapping" it up there...and everywhere else-not as easy as it looks folks...

I am really excited about this part too-its going to be my new closet!

we're going to put Bi-fold shutter doors there-instead of 2 dinky doors
and someday that door will lead to our masterbath-someday people SOMEDAY!! (that's just me willing it to happen-pay no mind)


so its almost amazing-it needs another coat of float and then texture and THEN paint!
speaking of paint
before we started I finalized my color palette for the house-because I like to have a well thought out plan since i am quite familiar with the flustered feeling that comes with construction and i knew i would need something to reference and also I just really love interior decorating stuff :) SO this is my "master color chart" (aren't i fancy) the top color is for the bedroom
hmmm-they are much more vibrant in real life...oh well you get the jist
and this is for Gwen's room-I have wanted to have a room with these colors since forever (yes FOREVER ok-dramatic much?)

I actually want to paint the outside of my house the blue and have red trim (swwwwooon)
and also-the quilt I'm making for her matches perfectly-I cant wait! heres a peek at the fabric

something not so beautiful happened this weekend too-with all the dust flying around something got stuck in my eye and developed into a sty. Ugh. It is gross and awful and I've only been able to wear mascara on one eye-and that just looks silly...today it is much better-I am actually equally macaraed. (thats not even a word...) I am way too vain to post a picture of my sty in its full Quasimodo glory...

I so can't wait to have our room finished! and er-sorry for the lack of pretty in todays post...I promise next time I will have something inspiring and beautiful to look at!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

yep

well its like we thought-we cant take out the full amount and just do the house all at once :( They said its because we don't have enough equity in our home and blah blah blah-BUT-after pouting a bit and whining to the Hubster now I have another plan!!
We are just going to do the house in stages. which admittedly was my worst nightmare but I'm willing to suffer in a construction zone for a while. the plan now is to transform "the ugly room"- that is really what we call it-into our bedroom-which would be so awesome because it would mean my bedroom would have...A DOOR! right now its completely accessible to just about anyone which means the sweet little children who come to play like to use it as a trampoline and-i have a white comforter people!!! it just doesn't work and makes me all cranky-thats my main beef with you house-you're just not functional! Anyways-I would love to have a room like this:


I especially love that last one...
so stage one is:Level the house (its all wonky)
Transform the ugly room into a blissful retreat
and! THE KITCHEN!!!

that last part makes me so happy-I literally put myself to sleep at night thinking about what my new kitchen will be like! I want this:

*sigh*Yeeeearn*fret*forcibly shove impatience away*annnd wait.*

anyways I'm sorry I don't have any of my own pictures in this post-my computer is being lame and wont let me upload which is awful because I have quilt pictures to show you! :( grrr-they'll have to wait until next time - I'll damsel in distress my sweetheart into fixing it ;)