New House UPDATE

Wow......has it really almost been a year since we moved into our new house?

Time really does fly!!!

I said almost a year ago that I'd update what we've done with the place but as you know, life gets busy, and if I'm perfectly honest, blogging is so far from my mind these days.  But this morning...in my Facebook Memories there was a sweet post about our wedding that prompted me to click on over to this place.  After reading it, I started reading my original house post and thought, 'It's really time I updated that because a few things have changed since then.'  

So without further ado....

Not much has changed on the front of the house other than Bill put down black mulch (I absolutely LOVE it but haven't managed to take an updated picture) this year.  And we recently got some stained glass landscaping lights.

And Bill pressure washed that awful black spot off the drive-way.

The backyard has gotten MANY updates.

Like a trampoline...

The back deck got a much needed paint job.

It was pretty dingy.

I love the new two-tone.  

We added a nature area that I was sitting in when I took this picture.  It's really a small piece of 'quiet' that sometimes makes me forget we live in a subdivision.

The front porch got some new rocking chairs.

Not much has changed in the entryway besides some new table decor.

The only change with the bathroom is that I painted the door black.

But the dining room got a complete make-over.

First we added a couple paintings my sister painted for us.

Then we decided that we never really use this space, and we really need an office so our pallet table went to my Mother-in-Laws house and we got a desk from her house.

I love that our office supplies are hidden in these cubbies so the room stays nice and clean.  Especially since it's one of the FIRST things you see when you walk into our house.

I LOVE this new storage for all my essential oils.  I've tried different racks and containers over the past year but I always thought they looked clutter-y.  So I was thrilled when I found this rack.

The living room hasn't changed much except for the fact that we FINALLY got our couch after over a month's wait.  And we moved the matching chairs upstairs when I had to have surgery about a month ago, because I needed a recliner to sleep in.

The oversized chair is now between the windows on the opposite wall.

And those photos....my dear friend, Christina, took them, and they are just everything.  She captured who my girls are so perfectly.

We plan to eventually open that wall up to the kitchen, so those prints will get moved to the wall above the recliner.

The eat-in has changed only in that I finally found a table I liked.  And Bill added a command station for me.

The plan for the kitchen is to eventually paint the cabinets white and take out the majority of the upper cabinets on the right hand side to open that wall up to the living room.

And I need to get the pantry door painted black this summer while the girls are gone.

Nothing has changed in the stairway and I'm not sure it ever will.

I nearly had a heart attack while Bill was painting this area.

Our entire house was an ugly yellow-y beige color before we painted everything but the girls' bedrooms/bathroom shades of grey.

Another door that STILL needs to be painted black.  

I'd love to get a beautiful sparkly chandelier to replace this one but again, Bill would get on that ridiculously tall ladder and just, NO! 

More doors....

There are so many dang doors in this house!

 The girls' bathroom still looks the same.  Though I'd love to change the color to a teal-y blue, and eventually that counter top will get replaced.

Ava's room hasn't changed at all.  This is still one of my favorite rooms in the house.

Ava and Bre shared this room up until a few months ago when Bre decided she was ready to sleep in her own room.

Bre's room was formally the girls' playroom/computer room.

When I posted the first pictures of the house last summer, we hadn't touched this room.  So, it was definitely the room that saw the biggest transformation.

Bre loves ALL things space related and the color blue.

We were able to find this really cool mural online.  It came in eight pieces that had to be lined up perfectly and the paper was super thin (read: it was a pain to put up) but she absolutely loves it.

Kinsey's room hasn't seen much change but that is going to change this summer so stay tuned for IG pictures of that progress.

We did move one of the living room chairs into her room so she has a place to sit and read.

Our bedroom is also exactly the same besides adding a chair next to the dresser.

The Master bath got quite the make-over.

We painted it ...grey, of course.

I painted the vanity black.  Refinished the counter tops with a transformation kit. And we swamped out that huge, ugly mirror.

This was before Bill installed the new faucets.  They are oil rubbed bronze.

Eventually, we plan to rip out that shower and tile it.

And last, but certainly not least, the garage got a GORGEOUS facelift.

James Dean had the best parking spot until Norma Jean kicked him out. 

We still have several projects we want to do, and hopefully, we will check a few of them off of the to-do list this summer but for only being in the house a little less than a year, we're really happy with all the progress we've made.

Semi-Finished House Tour

These past two weeks seem to have dragged on during some moments and flown by in others, but still, I can believe we've already been in the house a little over two weeks and all that we've accomplished in that time.

When we decided to repaint nearly ever room in our home, on our own, I don't think my brain really comprehended what a huge undertaking that would be on top of moving in and trying to unpack everything.

But....we've mostly finished and I'm really loving how everything has turned out so far.

I've had several friends/family request pictures and if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook then you've seen some of the updates.  We still have to finish the garage flooring, the laundry room, playroom, and Master bathroom along with just some decorating of tables, hanging pictures, etc.  But I have to say, I'm really happy with the progress we've made in such a short period of time.

Without further ado, here's our new home.

The landscaping looks so much better since Bill pruned everything and cleaned out the old mulch.  We plan to mulch it this week.  I'm still trying to con him into getting black mulch, because I think it just looks so nice but he thinks it fades too fast, so we will probably end up with regular ole brown.

This photo was taken BEFORE we moved in and Bill had a chance to power wash the concrete.    

Breanna loves all the open space in this backyard.  Our previous backyard was FULL of trees and very little grass so the girls didn't spend that much time out there.

The plan out here is to re-stain the deck and fence once the weather cools down.  The space also looks different in that all of these ridiculously overgrown plants have been pruned, and we have our patio furniture on the deck.

These potters..... I love them so much!  I desperately need a wreath for my front door and I just found a girl, who lives not far from me, on Facebook who makes custom wreaths.  The crazy part...she is also from Indiana.

I still need to stain the table top I bought and painted to go on top of the milk jug, and I'd really love to have two rocking chairs here instead of the chairs that are currently here.  I also plan on hanging some outdoor sheers to give us some added privacy, but I really love that we have a porch that I can sit out on.

Looking in my front door.  I adore this table I found at Hobby Lobby last week.  You can't tell from the photo but it's black, teal and gold and distressed.  The gold really plays off the gold in the antique mirror we have hanging above it.  It was Bill's grandmother mirror years and years ago and the detail on it is absolutely stunning.

In the foyer...looking into the downstairs bathroom.  I got that vase back home at a store on the town square called Impulse.  They have THE BEST home decor.  I've even had Brenda mail me stuff to Charlotte.  The vase has traveled from house to house to house with me and I originally planned to put it in the living room but it just fit so perfectly in this space.

The downstairs bath.  We decided to paint this bathroom the same color as the Master Bedroom because we had just enough paint left over to do it, and I love that it's just a shade or two darker than the main living area.

Formal dining.  We've done absolutely nothing to this space except set up our table and hang curtains.  We plan to change out the light fixture to a more appropriate size chandelier in the very near future.  And my sister, who is an amazing artist, is currently painting me two large panels for the far wall.

Bill's aunt, Mom, and I were discussing last night how I should decorate this table.  I think we agreed on two lamp and nice floral arrangement but I'll see what works as I start decorating it.

The living room is mostly finished.  We still need end tables and our couch...which should be delivered in about a week and a half.  I'll be glad when we have enough seating for guests.

The wall behind the oversized chair is going to be the family picture wall that I had in my office at our previous house.  

I think we finally agreed on a table for our eat-in.  Those bar stools have been a huge hit with everyone that has come over because they are so comfortable.  I'm planning to order plantation shutters for the kitchen windows, a curved curtain rod that extends the length of all three windows and some long, white sheers.  I think it'll brighten it up quite a bit.

The hallway across the way has three doors.  Straight ahead is my laundry room (which I didn't post pictures of because it's painted but we haven't got the cabinetry for it yet).  The door to the right goes to the garage, and the door to the left goes to a large pantry.

The only thing we've done in the kitchen so far is paint and add bar stools.  At some point, we plan to take a couple sets of cabinets down and open up that wall into the living room.

I think my wine bottles might be dry now so that I can work on today's project - a center piece for the dining room table.

At the top of the staircase is the girls' linen closet.

I really love this chandelier and I wish I could take credit for picking it out, but I'm going to assume it's been here since its days of being a Model Home for the neighborhood.

Looking towards the girls' bathroom, the little girls' bedroom, and the guest bedroom/office.

Straight back is our bedroom, and to the right is Kinsey's bedroom.  The pictures are some that I made several years back with fabric, canvas, ribbon and some cheap black picture frames.

The girls' Mint and Coral Paris themed bathroom.  They were very specific in that they wanted this bathroom to feel 'light' and that they wanted a white ruffled shower curtain.  

Ava and Bre's room.  I still think this my most favorite room in our home.  The table between their beds has been in every home I've owned for the past 13 years.  It's been almost every color of the rainbow and been in almost every room of my home at some point.  I gave it a coat of silver spray paint, distressed and glazed it and added some new glass knobs.  Their beds...I seriously spent nearly an entire day putting them together.  Bill jokingly said, "They are having these beds until they go to college" because of how long they took to put together.  But I love how they turned out.  I made the panels behind their beds out of my shelves I found at Hobby Lobby and a $2 sheer curtain from IKEA.  The lantern was a wedding gift from Bill's Aunt and Uncle.  

The office/guest room/playroom.  We've done absolutely NOTHING in this room besides get the computer set up, organize the toy closet and put the boxes of stuff we haven't gotten unpacked in here.  It's a complete mess still.

However, the plan is to make this into a 'SPACE' room for my two littlest space-lovers.  The wall to the right that you can't see is going to be a floor to ceiling mural and their TV is getting mounted on the wall to the left.

Kinsey's room.  Kinsey's room is so peaceful and relaxing with the combination of whites, blues, and grey.  She picked her bedding out from PB Teen and it's so fitting for her.

"LIVE IN THE SUNSHINE".  Kinsey is incredibly uplifting and positive so when I saw this quote at Home Goods, I knew it'd be perfect for her room.  I also finally bought the Euro Pillows to go in the shams that match her bedding.

I LOVE this space.  It's perfect for her.

My relaxation place.  I'm a firm believer that all adults should have a place that they can just relax when they are ready to call it a day.  We choose a nice, soothing grey for the walls.  Hung a few pictures and called it a day in this room.

Just kidding....we still have to find a chair and end table to go to the left of the dresser.  I need a reading nook, y'all.  

The ugly Master Bath.  This room is pretty much going to be a gut job so I'm refusing to do anything in it until we figure out exactly what it is we are going to do.

Why do all builders put those ugly, plain, gigantic mirrors up?  And that counter top.... so bad.  This house is 10 years old but I'm not convinced that was 'in style' even 10 years ago.

The shower is getting ripped out and tiled.

I really haven't done ANYTHING in this room besides put some rugs in it.  I don't even have a curtain up.  It's sad looking.

To the left...where you can see a door frame...that's the toilet room, but I didn't figure you all really needed to see my toilet.  

And straight back...where I'm taking the picture above from is our closet.  If you walk through the door in the back of our closet, you will walk into a very large walk-in attic.   The only thing we've done in there so far is add shelving to organize totes, but it's still pretty empty as most of our stuff that we store (decor, out of season clothing, etc) is still in storage.

I think I can speak for Bill in that we both feel extremely blessed to have been able to find a home with most everything on our wish-list in the school district we wanted to be in for the girls.

I can't wait for them to get home from their summer vacations so we can truly start our lives here.

I'd show an updated picture of the finished garage but Bill is currently outside ripping the checker board flooring out so that he can pressure wash the tiles and add the red tiles into the pattern.  It's going to look really nice when it's done.

A few of you have been asking about paint colors and where I got certain pieces of furniture so I'm just going to post my source list below.

Source List:

Front Porch:

Planters - Aldi 

Milk Jug - Came from Bill's family

Chairs - Home Depot on clearance last year

Lanters - LED - Ross

Entryway:

Paint Color - Sutton Place Grey

Table - Hobby Lobby

Vase - Impulse

Vines in vase - IKEA

Mirror - Bill's grandmother

Rugs - Lowe's

Downstairs Bath:

Paint Color - Behr Flannel Grey

Curtains - They used to be in Kinsey's room - Home Depot

Rug - Home Goods

Bird Picture - Hobby Lobby

Shelf - IKEA

Blue/White Vase - Walmart

Greenery in Vase - Impulse and the bird in the vase was given to me by family after my grandfather's funeral.  It was in the floral arrangement on his casket.

Lantern - Lowe's

Bird Votive - Lowe's

Gold Candle Holder - Target

Angel - Housewarming gift from my girls' stepmom 

Dining Room:

Table - We built it a couple summers ago from some free pallets.

Curtains - Lowe's

Living Room:

Paint Color - Sutton Place Grey

Accent Chairs - Stein Mart

Oversized Chair and Ottoman - Ashley Furniture

Vases - Walmart

Paintings - My Mother-in-Law

Rug - Home Goods

Kitchen:

Paint Color - Granite Bolder

Bar Stools - World Market

Girls' Bathroom - 

Paint Color - Valspar Pillow Mint

Shower Curtain - Home Goods

Towels - Home Goods

Toothbrush Holder/Soap Dispenser - Home Goods

Eiffel Tower - Hobby Lobby

Pictures - IKEA

Cabinetry Knobs - Hobby Lobby

Ava & Bre's Bedroom:

Wallpaper - Sherwin Williams  Book: HGTV Home II by SW Easychange Pattern: 493-5827

Beds - Overstock DHP Rose Grey Linen Upholstered bed

Bedside Table - I've had for 13-ish years

Lantern - Wedding gift from Bill's Aunt and Uncle

Vase/Flowers - Target

Mirror - Home Goods

Candles/Holders - Home Goods

Shelves - Hobby Lobby

Curtains - Lowe's

Kinsey's Room - 

Paint Color - I couldn't find the perfect paint color so I mixed Pillow Mint and a blue-grey color called Shark Loop

Bed - Overstock (Sleep Synch Waverly Upholstered White Platform Bed

Bedding - Pottery Barn Teen

Accent Pillow - Big Lots

Curtains - Lowe's

Vanity Stool - Overstock

Desk - IKEA

Make-up Storage Tower - IKEA

Mirror/Lights - Lowe's

Desk Top Mirror - IKEA

Perfume Tray - Hobby Lobby

Flowers - Target

Nail Polish Caddy - Home Goods

Master Bedroom:

Paint Color - Flannel Grey

End Tables - Home Goods

Lamps - Home Goods

Bedding - IKEA

Rug - Home Depot

Curtains - Lowe's

Seating Bench at end of Bed - Target

Picture above bed - Hobby Lobby

Other pictures - Wedding photos

Master Bath:

Towels - Home Goods

Rugs - Home Goods

Towel Basket - Home Goods