Some finishing touches....

Well Joe finally had a weekend off, so we got to finish some of our projects that were already in motion!

Kitchen painting- completed
Dining room wainscotting- completed

New light fixture in the dining room - completed

To all of you out there that got Joe and I either pottery barn or williams and sonoma gift cards....we finally found what we wanted! The new dining room light fixture is a result of that generous money! We had an outdated one, and now we have a fun contemporary/country/totally us light! We love it....so THANK YOU!!!

Dining room wainscoting

We finally decided on putting wainscoting up in the dining room nook. We love it! Much harder to put up than we anticipated, but we are learning! LOVE how it turned out!!!!

Kitchen and bedroom updates

Well it's been awhile since I've posted anything. We found a beautiful yellow rug to go in the kitchen. Poor chelsea wouldn't join us in the kitchen without the rug for comfort! :) We still need to finish painting the green above the cabinets, but once that is done, the kitchen will be done (minus a new floor eventually)...and a glass cabinet door to spruce it up a bit!

We also hung curtains in the bedroom to finish it off! Bedroom is DONE!

No more excuses not to work...

We set up the office portion of our basement! It took hours to put together the desk and file cabinet, but it is finally done! We plan on painting the brick wall a nice bright crimson color...

Family Birthday Board

 

Ok, so this isn't exactly a home improvement....but I was excited to make this! I wanted a way to remember all of the family birthdays, and had seen something similar to this online... It was so simple to make, and it will also be easy to add to! :)

I started with a shelf that was left in the house when we moved in. I spray painted it, and used stencils to paint "birthdays" on. I bought the wooden circles at the craft store and painted them. Drilled and glued the pegs in. Then wrote each birthday in permanent marker and glued it to the ribbon. It adds a lot of color to our new office which we finally have set up!

A place for the cookbooks

 

We found this great, inexpensive shelf at Ikea to add to the kitchen. Great find, and it is perfect for the space!

Kitchen Light



Before - see that tiny portion of the
light in the upper right corner?!?



The light that was in the kitchen was absolutely horrible! It was modern track lighting - not our style, and NOT functional! When you were working in the kitchen, you'd be in your own light no matter where you were standing! So, our project this weekend was to change that light! We got a large, fluorescent light that now provides tons of function to the kitchen! Unfortunately, Joe started taking the light down before I could think to snap my "before" picture....but we did catch a tiny piece of the old light in a previous picture...