Showing posts with label Furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Furniture. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dresser Makeover

The hubby and I painted a dresser we had inherited from his mom a few weeks back and I love how it turned out!

This is what we started out with and while it is pretty, it wouldn't work with what we have planned for the boy's room:


We had already taken the hardware off and started to empty the drawers at this point.


And after three coats of  Pittsburgh Paint's Airy Mint (N233) in a semigloss and a few coats of semi gloss Navy Blue spray paint on the hardware this is our finished product:


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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Gettin' Comfy

When we last updated things with the basement we were going crazy with distressing shelves, sconces, and a chalkboard.  A few weeks ago the hubby and I were at our wits end with the seating arrangements and decided to buy a comfy couch for the basement.  You would think it would be an easy process since we already knew what we wanted. Nope.  It took THREE and a HALF hours.  I'm not a big shopper for anything, especially furniture, so about 45 minutes in I was over it.  Apparently trying to find a sectional is a difficult process.  They were either too squishy, not squishy enough, over priced, too big, too small, coloring was wrong, awkward, wrong fabric, wrong color.  Until we found this comfortable beauty...

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We bought it at Colders and while it took us FOREVER to figure it out, this couch is SO worth it.  It is made by Ashley Furniture, I can't find a link for it, but we are in LOVE.

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Furniture can really make all the difference in a room, if you don't believe me look at what we started with:

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And after our adventure in furniture buying:

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I think we have Mae's seal of approval, but she's easy to please.

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Friday, June 6, 2014

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.

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And after a little paint and furniture:

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When we moved in we had this:

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

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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:

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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:

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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!

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Our bathroom.  Here is what we started with:

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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:

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The same goes for the half-bath:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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

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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.

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

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

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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!!




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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

House Tour


Current House:

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First House:

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Our Current House:

When we walked through this house we LOVED everything about it. The layout. The fact that it has an attached garage (no more walking slipping on ice to bring the groceries in). The location. And most importantly, the potential!

One thing we learned from our old house was to take pictures as soon as we moved in, or even before. We didn't do that with our first house and seeing the before and after wasn't AS dramatic since our house was a completely clean slate. Without further ado here is the newest addition to our lives:

Exterior (Before):

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Front Entry (Before):



Kitchen (Before): 

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Office/Bedroom #1 (Before):

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Dining Room (Before):

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Living Room (Before):

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Bathroom-Full Bath (Before):

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Bathroom-Half Bath (Before):

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Bedroom #2 (Before):

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Bedroom #3 (Before):

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Bedroom #4 (Before):

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Hallway (Before):

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Basement (Before):

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Basement-Finished Area (Before):

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Basement-Laundry Area (Before):

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Basement-Work Bench Area (Before):

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Basement-Creepy Crawl Space Area (Before):

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Now the hubs and I are going through the 8,153 (or so it seems) boxes and trying to see how our furniture will work in this house, which is exciting and a struggle at the same time!!
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