Celebrating Spring in the House

We are almost done working on the addition.

That means the assessor has to come in.

We had a lot of work dust to clean up.

I thought I would share some pictures of the house as it is today.

We still love the wood floors that we installed at Christmas time. 

We only have the two boys rooms to install the wood floors.

 I don't know if I can ever cover the wood with a rug.

I brought in some blues and pinks for my spring/summer colors.

I can't wait to get to the nursery and pick out flowers for my planters.

Do you like the white dresser?

We brought it up from the basement to eventually go into the kids bathroom.

I am hunting for a sink, for now, this is where it works.

I do not for one second doubt my choice of white slipcovers.

Pop them in the wash no problem!

I picked up some sale tulips on my lunch hour.

The house smells divine. 

  

There are certain things that I just love about my home.

This picture is one. 

Comfort, beauty.

Looking from the living room into the office.

Looking from the office to the living room.

Some more bright colors for spring.

One of the reasons I do not blog as much is that 

 I am getting my home to the point of loving it all.

There is no need to change.

Oh, I paint to cover life with 3 children, but the colors are the same.

There is less furniture moving.

I am also bringing less clutter into the house.

Moving more out actually.

The kitchen looking into the mud room.

 

Kids zone central in the mud room.

I have yet to paint any sayings on the wall.

The mud room looking into the kitchen.

We love, love, love the kitchen.

It is our hub.

Our gathering place.

The kids do their homework and eat breakfast in the kitchen.

Dinner is in the dinning room.

Hallway look towards front door.

Our new double oven stove we just love, love, love.

It makes cooking for large parties so much easier.

Mr. M. will agree that the center island is not always this clean.

It is easy to set a few things down and before you know it.

COVERED!

I try to make sure every Saturday morning it is totally cleaned off so we can start out the week with a clean slate.

I have been slowly bringing out my pretty rose dishes and sprinkling them throughout the house.

Our huge double sink is one of my favorite finds when we were building the house.

A mix of furniture found at antique shops.

As you can see the island is what you see first no matter what door you enter in the house.

It was custom made and is a statement piece.

This is the top of the stairs.

I love the cabinet filled with vintage quilts.

You can see a little of the painted floor rug.

Not sure if I love it, that is why I really haven't shown pictures.

After all the work I am not sure if I want to paint over it.

That is the house after a good spring cleaning.

Now that baseball season/gardening season is upon us,

 we are hardly ever in the house.  

At least it is clean.

Joining Savy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesdays,

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday. 

New Hall Way

I thought I would show you what I have been doing besides get all those trees decorated for Christmas.

Our new hallway.

As part of the new addition we put up some new walls in our old bedroom to make a bedroom for my son and a new hallway to our new master bedroom.

Some of you may already know, I like to paint my walls.  A lot.

This door is the entrance to our new bedroom.

It was the door to my husbands closet until we busted through.

I must say it did surprise us.

We had one of those moments where you open up a wall and find a pipe.

We worked through it though.

This corner is new, these two walls were not here.

To the right is the entrance to my son's room.

He will tell you, HE LOVES HIS NEW ROOM! 

He will give a tour after the new year.

This entrance was to our old bedroom.

We removed the door and widened the doorway.

The diamonds were already there, I just had to fix them after the renovation.

I went from diamond to horizontal stripes.

Downstairs we have vertical stripes.

While Mr. M. was out of town for work, the kids helped me draw the lines and I painted them.  He never knows what new thing he is going to come home to.

Entrance to new master bedroom and entrance to master bathroom.

For now we left the entrance to the old master bath room, we have another entrance from our new room.

We plan to either block the door or take it out altogether.  

It's a privacy thing.

Old hallway diamonds leading to kids bedrooms.

And that is what keeps me busy these days.

I am looking forward to lots of painting and sewing in the new year.

I have to work today so I will show more Christmas pictures of the house later tonight.

Merry Christmas.

Painted Rug Progress

I bought the paint and brushes.

I traced the design on the floor.

I tested some colors.

Thank goodness my daughter started helping me trace some of this.

I was starting to think it would never end.

Oh yeah, I still have to paint it ALL!!!

What was I thinking?

I am using lots of bright fun colors.

This is the hallway that leads to the bedrooms and one place to be more colorful with design.

You may have noticed there are lots of details in the design.

I am hoping I can make it look as good on the floor as it does in my head.

You don't know how many times I called to my husband to see if I should continue or not.

Was I crazy to do this...yes.

It took me several days to get the design traced on the floor.

Let me tell you, you can only sit on a hard wood floor doing this before your butt and hand start hurting.

Mr. M. kept saying "looks great, keep going, you can't stop now."

Mmmmm.....this was all said from the comfort of the living room chair....downstairs.

I am going to finish it.

And guess what?

If I don't like it.....yep, just paint over it and pick another design.

I love paint!

Now, if only I could remember where I put those paint brushes.

Happy weekend.

Purple for a Little Girl

Now that the study room floor is done, we are on to the next project.

Wood is ordered.
And waiting patiently in the hallway.

Old carpeting is ripped up.

Most of the furniture is out.
The big iron beast is last to go.

A little girl is excited because her room is next on the list.

We want the room to be able to transition into a teen room with minor changes.

She is excited to be having her own little slumber party in the basement while we work on her floor.

here

I was surprised when I showed her this picture and she loved the bedding.
Her room is already painted a very pale purple.
My plan is to keep the color just paint another coat to make it clean and fresh again, and of course all of the trim will be repainted white again.

I am on the look out for a chair to slipcover.
A new/used desk and desk chair.
They will be painted dark purple.

The wood floor will not be stained, we will only put couple coats of poly on, so if we change our minds and want to paint a pattern we can.

We are still looking for a rug that will bring all of the room colors together.

Then comes the hallway.
I still love my painted walls so I will be staining the floor same as the downstairs floors.

Then, the boys room.

Cue the Jaws music.

Two boys=

Lots of Legos.