Decorating!

My favorite part of doing the addition is finally here - - decorating!

We got a table for this extra space in the kitchen (much to Sophia's dismay - she thought this was the ultimate dance floor - especially at night when she can see her reflection in the window).

I am loving having a table to fold the laundry on (washer/dryer in that double door closet)

Because I used 2 of our dining room chairs in the kitchen, I had to get a couple of new chairs for the dining room

I have always wanted to have a couple of upholstered chairs - I love these and think they really complete this room!

We also found some time over the long Easter weekend to re-paint the living room.  We had to do this because when we had the basement done, there was some cracks in the living room wall from the shifting/re-settling of the house.  I decided to go with a much lighter shade to brighten up the room.

Now we are working on finishing up the kids bathroom - Jon got the shower up and running and I just have to paint some trim and some closet doors and then we will be done with that room.  A few more little projects lefts such as painting the office, tiling the entryway and doing a little trim here and there and we can officially wrap this project up...well except for fixing the damage to the backyard from all the construction vehicles, gutting and re-doing the master bathroom and finishing the basement....but you know what I mean :)

Anthony's room is {almost} finished!

It feels so good to have one room that is DONE (well, besides air conditioning vent covers and a tiny bit of trim). I am so happy with how this turned out!

I love that we have these beds because Jon and his brother grew up on them and so did Jon's mom and her sister. The extra bed will be used when we have overnight guests that we put in Sophia's room as well as for sleepovers with friends.

Finishing Work

Well, I promised an update, so here it is...this is the part that is so tedious. Jon has been trimming out all of the windows, closet doors etc. and we have both been doing a lot of painting. Still a few little pieces of trim to do, but we are loving having the doors on the laundry area!

House Updates

There are none...we are definitely in a funk! It's hard when you get to this point where things are live-able, but not finished...so.hard.to.get.motivated.

Doors - Before & Afters!

I love before & after pictures - don't you?!

I decided to go with a funky green for the exterior doors to spice up the outside of the house.

FRONT DOOR

BEFORE (in the winter...)

AFTER (in the fall...)

close-up

SIDE DOOR

BEFORE

AFTER

BACK DOOR

BEFORE

AFTER (still need to paint trim around door)

The Bathroom is (mostly) functional!

Toilets and sinks are in and functional! Up next: the bathtub!

I think Jon did an amazing job on the tile...

one of my favorite things in the room:

Updates

we got all of the trim painted on the addition (except the doors which I'm going to change up - I'm thinking of going green instead of brownish-red...any thoughts on that?)

the boy is in his new room! and he is excited about it! we decided to move him in even though the trim isn't done, we just couldn't hold him off any longer! :-)

I have another bed and quilt just like this one that will go on the other side of the dresser once we get another box spring & mattress

the view from his bed, the bathroom will have a pocket door and we still need to get his closet functional

Jon started laying the tile in the bathroom today! I think this is going to be my new favorite room!!!!

Bathroom Progress

Medicine cabinets are in! Next comes the floors and then we get to put the sinks and toilet in!

We got such an amazing deal on these sinks/cabinets! Only $60 each - they are very simple and will really tie everything together w/ the black and white floor.
I cannot wait to decorate this room!

Floors

The addition off the kitchen

3rd and final coat is drying on Anthony's new floors...just need to put up the trim and we can move the boy in!

2nd coat on

Not too much different...I put a little bit of white in it

I think once mirrors are in and I put things up on the wall, it will be just right!

this is the towel that is a couple of posts below...and it looks so much lighter when it's up against the black and white floor - it's hard to capture the true color of the room in pictures - I think it is a little lighter than the picture shows.

Kids Bathroom

Getting excited to put it together...soon!

Starting to feel like home again

This past week has been a mad rush to try to get our home as liveable as possible before Jon heads back to work on Monday. In a few short days, we went from this...


to this..

laundry closet tiled, grouted and sealed


wood floors installed (yet to be sanded/stained)

lots of painting...

(this view is from standing at the kitchen sink - that entryway is the old mudroom, which led to our outside door, - the new door is past that wall and down a couple of steps)

repainted the mudroom wall - straight ahead used to be our back door

repainted the dining room wall AGAIN - and it won't be the last time...we have to rip the wall open again to replace pipes but can't do that until we're ready to rip open the bathroom floor and decided not to do that along with this project

painted and installed floors in Anthony's new room

still so much to do, but it is starting to get to the exciting phase!

A peek at the inside progress

I can't even tell you how excited I am that we are going to have a laundry chute!