before carpet

Because we are putting in so much carpet, we had to move basically everything but the kitchen, bathrooms, and Kaitlyn's room. Thankfully, we had another bedroom and storage room in which to dump our stuff. Here are a couple of pictures of my kitchen right now. This morning I had to literally climb on the table to find my computer and power cord.

Right now, I am hiding behind the mattress by the fridge so that I am out of the way. They are promising a better place to sit soon but I don't see it happening right away. Lee is supposed to be bringing me some lunch so I don't have to try and cook anything in this mess. I hope he comes soon!

updated pics of upstairs

Here are some amazing updated pictures of the upstairs. Can we say we love the red? :) I will obviously need to paint the windows white but this is that wonderful corner of windows.

 A pretty good picture of my ledge/shelf. It turned out soo pretty!! I took it this pic from the floor last night because all our furniture is moved and I was sitting on the floor.

So, we repainted this wall. The color I had was just not what I wanted! I really wanted a little more yellow and a better contrast with the white trim. I fell in love with this color and so we had to paint the walls all over again the day before carpet delivery. I know, I'm crazy. But, thanks to my amazing sister, Melinda, we were able to get everything done!! I could not have done it without her. I owe her BIG TIME! Be thinking of a project that I can help you with Melinda because I do owe you.

downstairs paint complete

Here are some updated pictures of the basement.



Here you can see the new whitish wall with the new blue wall. I have to say, I'm loving the blue wall.

And, now we know why there was a cabinet in this corner!! We will have to get a new cabinet in to cover these pipes but won't be able to do that for a couple of months. Notice the pretty pinkish paint on the right wall we get to cover up? At one time, our entire house was PINK!!!

Before - downstairs

I am going to start working on the downstairs in earnest this next week. I thought I would post some before pictures before I get started. This room should be easy as it is just removing the built-in cabinet, painting, new light fixtures and carpet. Stay tuned for updated pics!

Below is the hole Kaitlyn made in the wall one day. Yeah it will be patched. :)

 The light fixtures I will be replacing.

A picture of the built in cabinet...and Wells.

Day 4

No pictures today because there is not much to show. I was supposed to have the entire day off work but ended up working about seven (7) hours...yeah, so much for vacation. Anyway, tonight I was able to finish all the edge work on the yellowish wall. I need to work on the inside of the closet and the closet door but that will come later. I also figured out how to put up the ledge and ruined one board cutting it wrong (nope, not sharing a picture of that. :) ). Anyway. I will be prepping walls for paint tomorrow and finishing the wainscoat on the west wall. I'm hoping that we can figure out the ledge so that I can start painting the wainscoat on Wednesday.

In the meantime, I have  website to build, interviews to complete, a hair appointment and some shopping/wrapping to do. I hope I survive until Friday! It's definitely going to be a fun week.

Cross your fingers that I get the ledge/shelf up tomorrow so I have some cool pictures to share!

day 2-3

So here are some pic updates for days 2-3. The walls that used to have wallpaper are all painted. In the picture you can see that I still need to paint the edges but everything else is done. The other walls are not going quite so fast. The wainscoat is going up. Progress is much slower than than I want, but I can't wait to get it finished, painted and the ledge done. It's going to look FABULOUS!! Here are the pictures.

Stage one - complete!

So, I'm really changing the walls upstairs. I want do something with wainscoat (yes, I love the stuff). So, I decided to take it all the way to the top of the windows. I also wanted some red in the room (well, yes, red...i love red). But, I need to lighten up the walls because my carpet is going to be darker. So, I'm putting red above the wainscoat, you'll just see peeks of it above everything else. This last weekend, I completed painting the red. It looks a little funny right now but I have the vision! I wish I could have done more but, alas, work called me to vegas so I could jump off the skytower. :) Here are pictures of my slightly red walls.

first task - wallpaper begone!

On the wall that runs down my hallway lived some wallpaper and a chair rail. Now, this wallpaper is not ugly, it is just not what I want. So, we tore it all down, sanded and retextured the walls. Look! We are ready for paint!

A peek into the two messy rooms I get to clean before the carpet comes...and the first wall I finished prepping for paint. :)  

before

I want to have documentation of what I'm about to do on my house. So, I'm uploading the before pictures of my upstairs. I'll soon start uploading the activities I get done as I do them.

 This is the corner with my windows. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with curtains. I'll post when I figure it out!

The back corner of the room. Here all things shall meet. I will have fun trying to match everything up here.

The main wall (separates the kitchen from our living room). Nicely decorated for holidays right now. All that will come down before Christmas unfortunately. Notice the beautiful blue carpet?

my sky jump!

I had so much fun on my sky jump! It was surreal how calm I was through the whole thing until they said JUMP then I freaked out for a split second and then jumped. I would totally do this again. Here's the video of my grand adventure.

the great remodel of 2010

The great remodel (which really isn't more than new paint and carpet) is about to begin. I was planning to wait until I had two weeks off work and do it all then but now I don't really have two weeks off so I'm going to get started this weekend. Besides, I'm finding that I really can't wait. I'm so excited!!

Check back often this month for picture updates and craziness. It will be interesting to see how well it all comes together. Just in case you are wondering, here are the plans:

1. Living room upstairs: remove wallpaper, fix all the holes, new paint, new carpet
2. Wells's bedroom: clean and new carpet
3. Master bedroom: clean and new carpet
4. Family room downstairs: remove built-in cabinet, fix all the holes, new paint, new carpet

Just a little something to do because I don't have anything better to do. :)