Settling In

The day we moved in was crazy.  Boxes flying, newspaper everywhere, furniture randomly all over the house.  We manage to get our bedroom and the living room the most functional, and over the past few weeks we've been unpacking, putting away and trying, TRYING to get things in order!  We are loving the layout of the house and totally loving how our furniture works with the flow!

While we still have to figure things out, here is where we're at so far!

Our office was red, had a decal on the wall and seemed kind of bland.

And after a little paint and furniture:

When we moved in we had this:

After some paint and getting our things in place we have this:

Painting the soffit made a HUGE difference with making the room look SO much bigger and it feels good to have a starter kitchen that we don't HAVE to completely gut right away!

Here is our dining room before we got our hands on it:

And all we have done is paint, but it seems a lot less "brown".  The crazy thing:  Our dining room is all the same color, no accent wall, that's just how the lighting works in our house.

Here is our living room before we painted and added our furniture:

We have been spending most of our time in this room and after moving things around managed to get it functional.  We love how comfortable this room is now!

Our bathroom.  Here is what we started with:

We have SO many plans for this room but while we figure out our game plan here is our bathroom once we added our little touches to it:

The same goes for the half-bath:

I threw down a bath mat and called it a day. Bam. Done.  At least for now.

I had big plans to get all the wallpaper down and get this room painted in time.

But that didn't happen and now this room is our catch-all room.  We haven't done anything and I just close the door and pretend it looks done inside.  Maybe one of these days I'll have the energy to tackle it.

Our bedroom was kind of bland.  We didn't like the color and even though the curtains worked for the previous owners, they weren't really our style.

 After some painting and some blinds, we did manage to get our room together and love how cozy it is.

I was NOT digging the "blue horse room".  The first thing I peeled off the walls were a bunch of horse decals that were everywhere...

And after a few coats of paint and our attempt to get something kind of set up:

The finished portion of the basement is a hot mess.  Totally looks like a tornado went through but we have plans to figure out what we're keeping, donating and tossing.

Moving on to the hubs' work area in the basement, we pretty much just dumped our boxes and moved on.

 I haven't seen any zombies come out of the crawl space yet, but I'm still on guard...

Right now my sweet fur baby is trying her hardest for me to take her out so I'm off to enjoy the beautiful weather!!