Master Bedroom and Bath Before
We have now taken pictures of our home at the start of 2010. We hope to have it looking much different by 2011 (if we still live here that is). Chris is insisting that I only do things that we can take with, just in case. You know, just in case his new job is not local and we are packing up in the next few months. I am having to sit on my hands so I do not paint and update everywhere.
Here is our plans for out upstairs:
1. Alivia's room: Paint, buy her a desk and chair and a new lamp (never buy lamps from Pottery Barn Kids. We purchased 2 and they both just stopped working. Nice, because they were not cheap!).
2. Addison's room: Transform her bed into a full sized bed, paint, new bedding.
3. Asher's room: We are going to try giving Asher our spare queen sized bed. He is only 2, but the bed is so nice! We purchased it from Ethan Allen and it is hardly used. We have the airplane bedding ready to go and would like to paint his walls a very light gray. We hope this is our first painting project.
4. Master suite: New bedding (goal for the year): Check! Yeah!! The kids ruined our bedding prior to the move, so we just had a light quilt on our bed that we received from our wedding. So, while I was looking for Asher's bedding, I found bedding for our bed! Love it! It looks great with the chocolate brown tiles and towels in the master bathroom, too. We would still like to paint the bedroom this year (grrr) and replace the tropical fan (grrr again). We just started buying fans, and those things are not cheap either! Anyway, we would also like to create a sitting space over the corner. This is really the only furniture that we would like to buy for this house that we did not have at the other address. We will see if we make this a priority this year. Obviously, the sheet has to go that is over the windows as we hope to get shutters on all the windows upstairs. This is one thing, for good reason, Chris is insisting we wait on doing until he secures a job. We also would like to get some cool lamps to go on either side of our bed. Maybe we will find something this weekend at the Mart.
6. Master Bath: Get chocolate brown rugs and towels. Check! Just put them down today and love them. Thank you to Grandma Marci for the money for our master suite updates. We also need to paint this space. We are also going to ask Jamie, our contractor for our main level closet and drop zone, if he could build a linen closet in the master bath.
7. Kids' Bath:I need to find a shower curtain we like before I move forward on towels and painting. It is not a huge priority since nobody showers in there anyway.
8. Rod Iron spindles. We really wanted these in our next home. When this one did not have them, it was just one more thing on the list I could not check off (actually, I am not sure I checked anything off of the list. :) ). But, with that said, it was something we thought we could do. We have selected the spindles and are looking into finding the most economical place to purchase them. We have over 40 of them. So, with labor costs, it is not a cheap thing to do!
9. New ceiling fans in every room.
10. Shutters to every window upstairs.
Sounds like a lot of paint, work and money to me. But, if we still live here in 2011, it will be worth it because it will look amazing. We have been in this home for nearly 2 months but I still do not feel like it is ours because we have been unable to put our touches on it. Hopefully Chris knows soon if we will be staying (and perhaps he will be staying at his current job a while longer) or if we will be moving again. Hopefully I will have more before and after pictures to share soon!
Here are the upstairs BEFORE pictures. I can hardly wait to see the AFTER pictures! Let's get to work NOW! Sign in to see all the before pictures...
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