Master Bedroom Complete

Our second painting project is complete - the master bedroom.  We also replaced the "lovely" gold sconces and got new bedding.  During the project, we discoved that the current owners had taken some shortcuts in painting - yeah there was purple paint (the original color of the room) and some serious jerry-rigged wiring for the sconces.  But my master electrician and me the self-proclaimed master painter fixed everything and it is now up to Delaney standards.

The before... dull and plain - so not us!

And the after.... fresh and new!

We also kept the room under budget!!
Wall sconces - Hampton Bay Rock Creek Iron Oxide from Home Depot
Comforter - Home 8 piece Bed Set Embroidered from Target
Paint - Smoky Pitch  from Lowe's (same as the weight room, but looks totally different in our room)

 Hmm... what project to do next??!

Visitors and Dresses

Love having visitors... and we had some great ones - Ian, Jen, Evan and Colin.  They came up Friday night and stayed through Sunday morning.  Saturday we had a great day - the girls went dress shopping and the boys stayed home with the kids and the smoker (we were having brisket for dinner).  And it was a very successful day!!

I am so happy to post that I got my dress and absolutely love it and can't wait to wear it!!!  And since I can't post a picture of it - a drawing from Karle will have to do until the big day!  And I think once you see the actual dress - you will realize how great of a job she did for being only 6.  She actually drew a picture of every dress that I came out in.

While Jen, Mary, Karle and I were dress shopping, the boys were at home - doing boy things.  Have a few beers, smoking meat, and hanging with the kiddies!  All successful - the brisket they made was so awesome!  Great job Ryan!!  And we ended Saturday night with some Euchre playing - and I am very happy to announce that Jen and I defeated the Delaney brothers... look out boys there will be much more of that to come!

We also attempted to do a Delaney picture - and despite some unwilling subjects, we actually got something that might work.  Gotta love pictures with kids in them!

Sunday was another great day as we started the master bedroom project, dropped my car off at the dealership to get a recall fix and had an amazing lunch at Zingerman's in AA.  

Cleaning Machine

Love having guests come over because that means there is a reason to clean!  The Delaney Clan of Ian and Jen will be arriving tonight and that means, family fun and lots of baby time!!  But it also meant we had to power through cleaning - vacuuming, kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, etc.  But with the help of Ryan, we powered through it and got it done in a couple of hours!

Sometime I wonder why we got such a big house - LOL!

PS - the first snow fell last night!  So not ready for that.

Redecorating 101

So since painting the workout room - I've been plotting out our redecoration plans to make our new house, our new house (not just some house we bought).  We hung pictures up Sunday night - Ryan is definitely the master hanger - all pictures were straight and equally distanced about - I love my engineer!!  :-)

Here is the before picture of our room the day after we moved in. We have since hung curtains and bought a new nightstand - all furniture courtesy of Ikea.

Master bedroom before

Today I bought a new comforter for our bedroom and we are going to check out new wall sconces tonight for our bedroom which has 8 in it (really who puts 8 in a bedroom - hopefully once they are updated from the horrible gold, I will like them better because they are definitely not my favorite thing).  On a funny note, I realized that I have been spelling them scones all week to Ryan, which are probably must tastier!  Then paint will get picked out soon!

Look out house!  It's game on!

Workout Room Facelift

Room as of Friday

We finished our first painting project in the new house this weekend!  Woo Hoo!!  We started prep work on Tuesday with filling in holes and skim coating the textured paint the previous owners left us.  The train room is officially gone (that's what it was before and I'm still looking for pictures of the true before.  Then Wednesday we sanded and skim coating a few spots another time. 

Finally by the weekend we were ready to actually start painting the room but not before taping and then priming.  Ryan took care of the prep work while I taught at the gym Saturday morning.  Then a quick stop to pick up the paint Smoky Pitch and Metropolis. 

Ryan cutting in

Prep work - althought definitely necessary is not nearly as much fun as actually painting. 

We painting 2 walls Metropolis (aka gray) and then 1 wall Smoky Pitch (aka gun metal - according to Ryan).








And of course I had to have some fun with the painting - maybe a few too many fumes!

All in all the finished product is pretty awesome!!  I am already planning what room to paint next - I'm pretty sure it will be the master!

Our masterpiece

Christmas Shopping Already

Crazy to say this... but yes I have already started my Christmas shopping and have several things already bought and 1 person already done!  I just couldn't pass up these great deals.

And if you know me - this is really crazy because normally I don't believe in anything Christmas until after Thanksgiving, but I'm in the mood now.  Only bad thing is that people will probably end up with twice as many gifts cuz I will either have forgotten I bought something for someone or will find something even better - good thing I'm keeping an Excel sheet!! 

Bring on the Christmas spirit!!

Weight Room Project

So we started our first project of November last night... cleaning up the weightroom.  I need to find a before picture because when we moved in, there was plywood and track all over the room.  It was basically a mini train town with artwork on the walls that went with it. You can kind of see the lines from where the track was and then the green on the walls is the trees and the white is the clouds.  Real nice!

But all this meant more work for us.. Ryan took down all the track shortly after we moved in and now it's my turn... painting the room. But first we needed to prep the walls (aka Ryan said we need to do - I would have probably just painted over everything -haha).  But I jumped in and helped.  First we scraped the walls, and then we started patching holes and skim coating over some of the really textured paint.  So step 1 is done!

Thursday, we will start sanding this down and then touching up any holes that need it.  Then hopefully this weekend, I can start painting - one wall is going to be navy blue and the others will be a light gray.

Stay tuned for this one... much more to come!