Landscape

 Back in August for our anniversary Troy and I did some much needed yard work in the front yard. It's amazing what a little bark chips and planting and paint can do to a little house.

Before

After

 

Troy painted the house several years ago, but never finished the porch ceiling. And it's just one of those things you get used to and put off. But we finally got it painted along with the rest of the porch, including the floor. And then added the new mailbox and porch light. Painted the old rocker and added a pillow. Voila! An aesthetically pleasing porch, that I go nuts over.

Before

 After

 

I've managed to keep the flowers alive until now. But I am going to be replacing them here in the next couple of weeks with lots of tulip bulbs, including the ones I planted over Parler almost 3 years ago.

All in all it was fun and I think turned out great!

The Room Rearrange Part 2

We decided that we wanted to close the bedroom door up in the living room, and move it to the dining room.  Here is the dining room before....

The first cuts

Found some lovely old wall paper under the paneling

 and some even older wall paper under that (look up by the ceiling)

The inside before

After the wall is down.
 I really wanted to wait to put up finished pictures, but this is going to be a process, a long process. So I will put it in bits and pieces. You get the idea.  It makes a nice little hallway into the girls room.

The view from the living room. I am excited to have more wall space in the living!

The Room Rearrage Part 1

As you can tell from the next 2 pictures, it was becoming apparent that the girls were needing a bit more space. I really wanted to be able to take their bunk beds down so their beds were easier to make, and they were always hauling all of their toys out of their room to play with them because their floor space wasn't big enough. 

So in October I had an epiphany...give them our room. So we decided to turn it in to one of their Christmas presents. The girls went to spend the night with my mom on the 26th, and the next day we worked all day, and about 9 we realized we weren't going to get it done, so I asked if the girls could spend one more night.

 

(I had already started moving furniture out before I remembered to take "before" pics)

At 2:00 am we were finished and I went and got the girls the next morning.

I saw this idea on Pinterest, they used fabric, but I didn't have time to get fabric and has found a scrapbook paper book in the perfect color scheme I was going for, and made this as a last minute add-on at midnight.

I didn't get any pictures of the reaction, but I'm sure you can imagine it was pretty great. They are still saying "this doesn't seem real".

Here is the room after they put their touches to the beds.  

My wonderful grandma asked if there was any furniture I would like to use from her house, and so we have now acquired this lovely chest of drawers. It was her parents. It's a perfect addition.

There is soooooooooo much more that needs to be done. We are currently staying in their pink room, which will eventually be the TV room, when we move upstairs where the TV room is.  But this requires painting and a few more things. It will be a process, but a fun one I think.