A Room to Call her Own.

We have finally completed CM's room and it looks great. The only things that we purchased was the aura paint(cloud white) and MDF for the board and batten. Everything else we had.

Here is the room before

and here is our inspiration board

The first thing we did was paint the room. Then we had home depot cut the boards and added the base boards, boards, and chair rail.

and

We complete many little projects along the way and end up with this



Although the room is very small, I think that it looks great.

Nicole



ABC

We thought that we would do a few cute little DIY projects for CM's room. One of the projects was name art. She had received these alphabet letters as a gift when she was born and I wanted to do something special with them.

Here is what I used

and this is how it turned out.

I love the bright colours and the different animals used.

Nicole

New Floors

We the last couples of weeks have been extremely busy and hectic around our house, however I definitely have a reason to smile.

We went from this...

to this :)

Look at how beautiful they are. Every time I walk in the house or down the stairs, they put a smile on my face (I realize they are just floors, but they were a long time coming). I will be back soon.!

 

Nicole

Happy 8th Birthday

For the past month we have been planning Hayden`s 8th birthday. She decided on a spa themed birthday party for her and her closest friends. For inspiration we went to pinterest. Here is what we found

and here are some pictures from her party

Nicole

PINK sidetable(finally)

The sidetable has been complete for some time, however for several reasons it has taken me over a month to post. First, I could not decide on the handles and debated back and forth on what to do, and second, life got in the way.

I purchased the sidetable at a yard sale for $6. Here it is before,

And after,

It is painted Martha Stewart's magnolia grandiflora. It is a light, light pink. I then used minwax polycrylic protective finish. It took about four coats of paint and three coats of the minwax to complete the piece.

For the handles I ended up spray painting the original handles a high gloss white. I am not sure I will keep them, however I will wait until I see everything else in the room before I make the final decision. I also lined the drawers with wallpaper. I buy the wallpaper at a local shop for $1 in their discount bin (much cheaper than drawer liner).

I hope you like it!!

Nicole

Fall Mantle

On Saturday we will officially have lived in our house for one year. Although we have done a ton of things around the house I feel that we still have about 100 10 years of work to do.

This is what our mantle looked liked when the previous owners lived there

And this is what our mantle looked like after a few fall updates

and a closer look

This fireplace is one of the reasons that we fell in love with the house. I feel that I should be changing the picture with the seasons, however I am still attached to our wedding photo!

Nicole

Two Dresser`s

I have been intending to paint these two dresser`s for a long time and they have been sitting in my garage. My husband told me that before I could buy anything else from garage sales or the goodwill I to finish what I had. So needless to say, I got busy!


Here is the before of the first dresser (sorry, I had already started to sand it when I remembered to take the picture)

and here it is after

this is the second dresser before

and after

I think they turned out great!!

Nicole

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