Dining room/Living room

Well, the orange is up, the art is on the wall, and the furniture is in place! We love our bright area. We are still going to add a chair rail to the dining room space to help define the area better, but it's almost done!

I also find it very funny that HGTV is on in these pictures (Bath crashers) haha!!!!

Orange...

 

The dining room and part of the living room are going to be bright orange. It's looking great so far. The first coat is up in the dining room...

Bedroom art

 

The window panel of our front door fell off and broke. I was in the middle of gluing it back together when I realized it might make a good piece of art. I decided to use our test paints for the house to paint an abstract picture in each pane. I spray painted the window panel with white paint to freshen it up, and then I glued the painted pieces of paper to the back and secured them with a piece of cardboard to give the piece more structure. The ribbon is to hang the picture. All I had was pink, so it will work for right now. I need to replace that with blue, green or orange, however!

Our bedroom

 

 

 

 

I had no idea how this was going to turn out, but I wanted to put a chair rail moulding in the bedroom and paint white below the moulding, and a greenish blue above. My parents were in town to help, so we tried it out!!! WE LOVE IT! Now I just need to find some things to decorate the room with.

The green kitchen...

 

 This is only the first coat, but it is as beautiful as we imagined!

Rock

 

Today we added rock around the perimeter of the yard and around the tree.

Painting the fireplace

Brick is apparently really hard to paint! Not only is it going to take several coats, but painting the grout is tough! Coat number one is done though! Only took me a couple hours... 

I'm assuming the second coat will go much quicker.

Making the entryway cozier

Rug: 60% off-  $14.99

Tables: 20% off - $30

Pictures...free! We already had them :)

Not sure if we like these exact pictures here yet, but we are trying it out.

Sod is done!

The first project: Sod

The yard is such a great size for the dogs. Unfortunately, it was a muddy mess!

 

 

 

 

I hauled the sod to the backyard, while Joe placed it and made it perfect. We made a good team and got this done in under 2 hours. We also got a great deal through Joe's work, and got the sod for under $200!

The kitchen is coming together

 

Our kitchen is unpacked, and so much fun to cook in! We can both be in the kitchen making dinner, and the dogs can join us.... we still have enough space! Our double oven has been really great. Dinner in one oven, and dessert in the other!                                             

A place for the food....

The kitchen in this house is amazing. The space is very large...in fact, the last owners had a pretty big dining table right in the kitchen! We wanted our table in the dining area, and envisioned a pantry in the extra kitchen space. We went to IKEA for the first time, and found a beautiful piece of furniture that was intended to be a closet. We transformed the inside with shelving instead of a clothes bar, and created a wonderful pantry!