Thursday, June 11, 2009

House Projects

I have been on this house project kick. It all started about 2 1/2 years ago and there is so much to do that it's going to take a while. Our projects usually happen around May since that is bonus time for Brian at work.

I'll post pics of each room soon.

The first Project that I did was the hall bathroom. The house had all gold fixtures and I like Silver. We painted, changed all the fixtures- light and sink, hung new towel rods and holders, and changed out the knobs on the cabinet. (Some of this I did on my own but Brian helped with the faucets and light)

The Second Project was painting the Kitchen. It was a deep blue color and I painted it Red and put my Old America decorations up.

The Third project that we did last year...Which was HUGE was we got new carpet installed and the rest of our house painted. After taking on the other two rooms it was just to much to paint the house ourselves. So I found an awesome painter. He painted the Living room, the stair way, laundry area, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, all the trim and doors, and all of the closets which there are 7 in our house all for $450. We supplied to paint but he had it done in 3 days...and he worked alone. He did a very awesome job. Then we hired Floor Mart West to do the carpet. I would recommend them to anyone. They were way more reasonable than Lowes and the job was completed 5 days from the time we decided to go with them. They got all the padding and carpet changed in 8 hours. It was great! Since we had the door knobs off for the doors to be painted we decided to change all the door knobs to silver instead putting the gold back on. We also changed all of the light plates and sockets out for white instead of cream. It was all quite a task but worth it!

Two years ago I got a new bed frame for Christmas. I had not gotten new bedding since then and I really wanted to do something with our bedroom. So this was one of my next projects. I found some bedding that I liked and some curtains that match. So I got that done. I love having a bedroom that looks nice. I swear it makes me sleep better at night. See pics below.



We are on another project kick. Right now we are getting ready to redo the master bath with new faucets, light fixtures and hardware. Thank goodness I don't have to paint!!
We are also getting quotes for some landscaping in our back yard. That wil be quite the project for whoever we decide to hire on that one. I'll post pics of the horrific yard soon...I'll probably do a post of what our home looks like. I'm so glad that it is coming together!


Just Slack

It has been way to long since I posted anything on my blog... Okay since around Valentines. I'm going to try to pick it back up again. I dropped off in Feb because my boss at the time got fired so I was pretty much running work on my own. It was hard and I didn't want to even look at a computer after I got home.
I have a new boss now who I like alot. Now that I've started to get him aquainted with the way that things work here, I may have a little more free time and not as much work stress to blog.
So Stay Tuned for upcoming blogs.