A Christmas Look

This is my Christmas look.

I can see this tree from the office while I am on the computer.
You can see my son's head as he sits in one of the chairs watching a Christmas movie.

This is the picture I took last night while on the computer.

So bright.

So merry.

So Christmasy.

I love how the red pops on the tree even though every color in the rainbow is on it.

I love how the lights reflect in both of the windows.

You do not need any extra lights on in this room, the tree does it all.

Oh and I am still just loving my new wood floor.

I hate to say it, but, I am looking forward to the after Christmas because I know we are going to do

MY OFFICE FLOOR!

oh yeah way excited!

A little display on a table next to the tree.

I have pretty much finished decorating the house and I will try to get pictures of the house this weekend.

Oh and I have lots of wrapping.

Merry Christmas all!

New Floor Love!

The floor is in and we just love it.

Mr. M. stayed home Wednesday and laid down the Southern Pine 

with our nephew helping, or the other way around.  

Due to having in floor radiant heating, they had to glue and top screw in the wood.

Friday I came home from work to find it all stained, boy did it stink.

Saturday and Sunday we put several coats of poly on.

If the room did not flow into the already stained hallway, I might have tried to just sand and wax.

This is how I plan on leaving the upstairs bedrooms.

The lighter floor will look nice against the darker walls.

Fresh laid pine flooring before stain.

Newly stained floors.

We both love the look of the wood against white walls.

I can only imagine how good it is going to look with all the slip covered furniture. 

As you can see the walls need some touch ups.

We also still have to put the quarter round back on.

Although this picture is a little fuzzy and on the red side.

I wanted to show you the transition from the old wood to the new wood.

The new wood is a little on the lighter side, however the hallway has been re-stained in the past few years.

The old wood has lots of wear and tear from children, animals and just plain old 15 years of use.

We couldn't be any happier with the way it turned out.

The wood we used is Southern Pine from Lumber Liquidators.

The price is right and we were able to order on line and pick up the next day.

In fact, we are so happy that we plan on redoing the upstairs hallway and all of the bedrooms in the same wood.  

This week I am painting the living room, both the walls and trim, same color, still love my white.

Then over next weekend we can move in all of the furniture and put up the big Christmas tree.

What a wonderful project this has turned out to be.

What a wonderful Christmas we gave ourselves and our home.