Thursday, August 19, 2010



Sorry I've been so scarce this week. Little L has been under the weather and all she wants is her pink blanket and her momma all cozied up on the couch. I think I've watched Toy Story at least 7 times since Tuesday- no lie. I'm thrilled the weekend is almost here so maybe I can bust out some projects finally. At least I got the kitchen primed tonight, it hid the last of the awful orange "tuscan" faux finish.

It hasn't been all bad being shacked up on the couch. Since we got cable I was able to catch up on "Tori & Dean" while Lucy slept. Those two crack me up- there I said it, I'm a fan.

Friday, August 13, 2010


Happy Friday everyone! I'm looking forward to a semi-relaxing weekend with all of the major projects done for now. Just a few rooms left to paint but I'm not really motivated for that right now, I just want to kick back and enjoy all the work thats been done so far. I can't wait to linger in bed a little while longer for the next two mornings! Hope you all have an awesome weekend!

ps- How much do you love my vintage crystal side table lamp I scored at goodwill for 2.99? BONUS: there were two available so Nick scored one for his side of the bed too!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

1970's wet bar before and after

Powder room addition reveal day! You may recall a week or two ago I showed you the horrid wet bar that occupied an area of our first floor. The minute we realized the lack of bathrooms in the house I knew that wet bar's days were numbered.

Just to give you a quick background our new place is a tri-level. The first floor has the family room, sun room, playroom, laundry room, and now a half bath. The second floor hosts the main entry, kitchen, dining room and living room and the third floor is were the bedrooms are including the master with a bath and then another full hall bath. If you were in the family room and had to use the facilities you were faced with hiking up two flight of stairs which is just not practical with kids.

It was actually not as big of a project as I initially thought it might be. The plumbing for the sink was already there  from the wet bar and the crawl space was literally in the other side of one of the walls in there so plumbers were able to drop a toilet pump in there and a small hole had to be drilled into the floor to run the pipe. The whole thing took about a week from start to finish. Our wonderful contractor Stan, did an amazing job on the space and as well as seamlessly scheduling the plumbers and the tile guy.


Before view from the doorway:




After view from the doorway:



Stan actually moved the laundry room wall back about 10'' which allowed us to put in a standard size 6 panel door to the bathroom as opposed to the very narrow opening that was there before.






Before view from the family room:




After view from the family room:



It's so nice to have the added wall space on the outside now that the opening has been drywalled in. Our carpet went in yesterday and I'm happy as clam. It's time to really get moved in now and put things up and away. We put the final coat on the playroom last night and I'm wondering if I can convince Nick to put together the IKEA Expedit this weekend. Maybe? crickets.........

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updated link to chair rail border here

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New carpet today, new carpet today! I'm so stinkin' excited, I'm like 6 year old Sarah circa 1987 the night before Christmas waiting for that new cabbage patch kid excited. You'd be just as thrilled if you could see the current carpet. It's going in the family room, hall and playroom on the first floor- very kid friendly.

Speaking of kids, mine is six months old today! I can't believe it, time just shot by. She's so freakin' cute I can barely help myself sometimes. Even at 4 am when I'm trying to rock her back to sleep and she just looks up at me and laughs. So happy four months Lucy loo! Mommy loves you to pieces!!!







Tuesday, August 10, 2010


I picked up lunch last Friday from here. How swooney is it that it all came wrapped up like a sweet birthday present? It made me smile. Not to mention the turkey, tomato on focaccia with a fresh basil spread rocked my socks off. Are you jealous yet? =)