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pillows accessories and flowers can do for a home it s not expensive and it always feels like the whole place got a makeover posted by jennifer p at 3 40 pm no comments tuesday january 15 2008 welcome after a lot of requests i have decided to create a separate blog to tell the story of our crazy whirlwind 3 month remodel in september of 2006 we purchased our 1776 sq ft home it was built in 1988 in an older well cared for subdivision on a large lot with lots of mature trees and a garden spot we were thrilled the place was in good shape but it wouldn t have mattered if i d moved into a brand new house i m an interior designer and that always means change we really wanted to create a place that reflected us and our lifestyle a place we could entertain friends and children and easily be happy in for the next twenty years we moved in on a gorgeous september saturday after my husband set down the first box he walked over to the wall separating the living and dining room and punched a hole in it what a manly man the wall had to go i quickly followed by beginning to peel off big sections of the plaid birdhouse wallpaper that ran throughout the dining and kitchen area now we were committed all the furniture except the mattresses a few of the kids toys and the tv stayed packed into the garage after about two weeks we finally caved and had to bring in the table and the family room couch we couldn t go on sitting on boxes we have four boys who were ages 8 6 2 and 4 months at the time for their sakes we worked like the dickens finishing the majority of the remodel by thanksgiving time it meant that i would get up about 5 30 am and paint demolish clean up and paint some more until nearly 2 00 am every day then i would wake up with my baby all night long and start in again the next day every muscle in my body ached constantly my sweet husband did all the heavy labor and had the battle scars to prove it my uncle a contractor saved our lives several times by helping with the sheet rocking and electrical work we are so grateful to all our family and friends who came to help and were paid only in pizza now i have to mention that i am an incredible cheapskate and proud of it we had a strict budget to work with and we stayed within it that meant that some of my projects kitchen backsplash bathrooms fieldstone patio fireplace had to be put off for a later date but with a little creativity and some killer bargain shopping i was surprised how much we were able to get i also learned a lot of lessons about what you can do yourself and what will make you weep openly and scream why why to try and do on your own i tried to give a brief rundown on each project and what we did if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment and i ll get back to you so look through the before and afters for each room and marvel at how we lived amongst the during shots it is all still a work in progress but the majority of it is done hooray it truly is the evolution of a home though i will update room photos from time to time the majority of our new projects including holiday decorations will be at the very bottom of the page posted by jennifer p at 10 30 am 9 comments tuesday november 27 2007 exterior before here it is just a few days after we moved in notice the semi sized dumpster in the driveway we would soon fill it to overflowing what we loved about the house its location the big bay window and two little pop out windows in the front the interior layout all on one floor and the size of the lot what we didn t like the giant tree that was pushing up the driveway pad and threatning the foundation the brick patio out front we like to sit out back the overgrown bushes and the grey ge with teal trim color during the bushes are out and the tree is pruned but not much else who s that man in my tree this big willow tree in the backyard was slowly dying from locusts down it goes the tree removal here and in front was definately a big added expense we weren t planning on but what good would it do to fix up a house only to have large trees fall down on it during the first bad storm after so here is the outside now i painted the front door red right away i love houses with red front doors new lights and numbers came next pulling out one of the two giant elms let a lot more sunshine in and made for a nice burm on the left side of the house which you can t see we added the second island out front in june about the same time we pulled up all but a border of the brick patio the final touch was having the whole house painted in august what s up next letting all the perrenials clematis russian sage peruvian verbena and a few boxwoods fill in the front adding a dummy dormerwith the same board and batten trim work right in the middle of the roofline to break it up a bit reroof it but probably in the same color since it matches the brickwork update 2010 the old hot tub got to be too much work so when someone offered to take it off my hands i jumped at the chance and lucky me beneath it was a concrete slab now i d have two patios a dear friend helped me shore up the deck that connected the two patios i added a big ottoman and umbrella bought on a memorial day sale and brought the robins egg blue chairs out from my boys room where they never got sat in and voila an outdoor room that i love to be in eating breakfast or reading a magazine out here is the best posted by jennifer p at 2 24 pm 6 comments living room dining room before this is the wall seperating the living room from the dining room coming down you can see big chunks of it in the pile that still have the plaid wallpaper on them we started ripping this apart before our dumpster arrived and had to live in this rubble for several days even the ceilings were purple the dining room in progress i tried to make our war zone feel a little homey by keeping a centerpiece on the table it was nice to have somewhere to sit down during the spare few minutes we had to sit posted by jennifer p at 1 30 pm 1 comment during this is our living room on a clean day my two year old liked to hide behind the giant sheets of drywall and i was always afraid he d knock them over on someone or something as you can see this room and almost all the rooms in the house were very purple i rather like purple especially in my flower beds but i don t find it very soothing as a focal color in my own home we nicknamed the house the purple palace and soon attacked it with 15 gallons of paint the wood floors are down they are unfortunately covered in everything out of the rooms that were being carpeted this was actually halloween night trick or treaters probably thought we were some kind of hoarders the brick veneer is up the couch is in and i m still painting this time an old bench and our chairs posted by jennifer p at 1 25 pm no comments after i love not having a wall here for big gatherings we put the couch in the bay window and have lots of room to set up a second table or extra seating the photo on the wall in the living room was from a fossil display in an optical shop they were throwing it out so my hubby knowing how much i love vintage artwork brought it home for me only my sofa is new room and board everything else was either slipcovered or painted my big tweed covered ottoman was once my coffee table for 15 in fabric 4 00 in silver upholstery tacks and 40 in upholstery fees i now have a place to put up your feet or enough room for 3 4 people to sit around the hutch houses my computer and office supplies my mom who had passed away 8 months earlier use to pull my boys around in the wagon on top of the hutch it s a nice reminder of her each time i look at it the dining room brick got a sandblasted look i really wanted a manhattan loft look i got the large table to seat eight for a steal at cost plus world market a floor model marked down to 200 the end chairs are oh from karim rashid for umbra and the x back chairs are from an unfinished wood warehouse 50 each i painted them white the bench was free from my sister in law also painted by me total cost for my dining room furniture 420 the dick and jane artwork is from a calendar i had aaron brothers cut the mats for me and then i bought the frames great practice for my little ones learning to read my prize find in this room is the chandelir bombay company wanted something like 499 for it and i stalked it until it was on clearance for 75 i love to put leaves in it for fall and garland in it for christmas view into the whole area my kids love to chase eachother around the pillar an added bonus to the fact it s still supporting my dropped kitchen ceiling posted by jennifer p at 1 20 pm 11 comments saturday november 24 2007 family room before the previous owners had all white furniture in here which i guess made the eggplant tone 0n tone stripes in here work for them it felt a bit like a big purple cave to us though and completely swallowed up our chocolate brown furniture the kids pitched in to help prime the walls in here they really loved helping to paint and i loved having them help even if it meant sanding off a measurable amount of drips bless their hearts they were such good sports about the whole big project posted by jennifer p at 12 12 pm 1 comment during i love my blue ceiling it feels like the sky there were originally only plug in sconces in here so we added overhead lighting thanks to our friends the porters who are electricians i liked the horizontal stripes so i kept them on one wall thank goodness for the tv to keep children entertained during all the work after the brown paint made it feel so much larger the carpet is made with tactesse fibers so it s wonderful to just lay down on or wrestle on as is usually the case in our house the couch was a 500 steal at rc willey it can be climbed on and ate on and i don t care because it all wipes off with a damp rag this room ended up taking a lot of our hand me down furniture but for as hard as this room gets played in it s just what it needed the old drawers hold my fabric diapers puzzles the laptop and play doh stuff i love drawers we would love to add a center fireplace with built ins on either side one day but for now the hutch we got when we were first married plus a coat of red paint work just fine posted by jennifer p at 11 51 am 2 comments master bathroom the poor master bathroom has been nearly done a few times now but two floods have required some ripping up and re arranging photos of what will hopefully be a lovely though small room coming soon posted by jennifer p at 11 49 am no comments master bedroom before the walls and ceiling were a chilly shade of blue great for spas but not for the place i sleep the pergo floors were neat but unfortunatley all the seams were warped from having dogs potty on them this was the first room i started painting but one of the last i actually finished during slowly getting the walls painted and adding the walk in closet for about 3 weeks we could open up the closet doors in our bedroom and see straight through into what was then 2 more bedrooms after we got the bed on a huge sale at bedroom expressions it use to have a big seashell scroll at the top but we removed it to streamline the look the green paint with a slight tint of yellow to it is called nutria sherwin williams besides my comforter my friend made all my bedding normally she would charge an arm and a leg and maybe your first born child too but lucky me she hates painting i painted two rooms for her one of them in a deorative finish and she sewed for me i love bartering the prints on the wall above the bed are from 1959 found in an old scrapbook of my mothers after searching for the right color of red for the lampshades with no luck i finally painted a pair of 5 00 brown paper ones and then sealed them with a coat of modge podge we actually use our ceiling fan all year long so i m glad i found one that was contemporary looking enough to blend into the room posted by jennifer p at 11 16 am no comments wednesday november 21 2007 bedroom 2 before the house originally had 4 bedrooms we combined 1 and 2 3 of them into a larger second bedroom and took the other 1 3 of the fourth room to create a walk in closet in the master bedroom this is a photo of the combining process my boys who had to sleep on their mattresses on the floor for 2 months called the color on the walls band aid by the time we got in here i couldn t bring myself to repair any more drywall so i just painted over the exisiting paneling posted by jennifer p at 3 20 pm no comments after it s hard to get a 7 and 9 year old to keep their room clean enough to take an after photo but these will have to do for now this was taken right before halloween so there s a lot of spiderweb decorations they love the chalkboard walls and they are well used not only by my boys but all the visiting friends as well there s a whole other side to this room you can t see we call it the dressing play area more pictures to come soon maybe right after i finish stitching the sides of their raggedy quilts posted by jennifer p at 3 13 pm no comments laundry room it only took three and a half years to finish but the laundry room finally got done here it is before i put that patch of dark brown paint on the wall years ago and then never finished because i didn t know how to move the washer and dryer out thankfully i had a good friend who helped me come get the job done after now i feel like a queen in my glamorous little laundry room the chandelier came from my in laws old house my boys used to lay under it as babies and be mesmerized by the light being splashed around by the crystals when they built a new house they made sure to savage the old chandelier for me i couldn t have thought of a better place for it the curtain like coverings over the shelves in there are actually pillow cases with clip rings on a tension rod and i love my mirrored butterflies hanging on the right hand wall posted by jennifer p at 3 04 pm no comments bedroom 1 before this was one of the last rooms we tackled we had tried to set up a little play area for the kids in here a respite from all the piles of rubble and sharp power tools from a painter s perspective this room was miserable it took 3 coats of primer to cover the vine stenciling the fish mural was painted with some kind of puffy glittery fabric paint and after fifteen coats of primer the large red fish continued to bleed through i would have nightmares about that red fish i finally hit it with a sander and re textured it mission accomplished posted by jennifer p at 2 51 pm no comments after in all the houses i ve lived 4 now i ve painted these diamonds up on a wall somewhere i love the way they re whimsical but still sophisticated my little guy is modeling his favorite train picture for you the fish are gone we kept the shelves but changed them out with white ones lots of room to play in here a definate advantage over our last house posted 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