I have been working on making my house a little more put together, a little more cohesive, a little more not so much a showcase for our yucky mismatched furniture, but a shabby chic paradise. My first project was the kitchen that you all ready know of, my second the utility room. This room is going to be my owl room. In reality I am the ONLY person that spends any time in this room so I am making it into something I LIKE! I started with redoing some of the picture frames that were in the room, then I made a canvas, then a quote, and next was the first owl. Today I made the second owl, and started working on the third and forth (those two won't make their appearance for a blog post or two).
Today addition was inspired by a quilt hoop that my mother-in-law gave me about 10 years ago. I held onto it thinking I would do a large cross stitch and would need it for that. NOPE that won't happen so I got it down and thought about what I could do. Since I usually work in paper I decided I needed a change of pace. I chose felt. I have a massive pile of felt that I stamp on and make into flowers. Since I have it by the yard it works perfect in the hoop.
I chose a blue for the background, and free handed cut out things from the felt. Since it was a laundry room I chose a clothesline and owl design.
I glued the shapes onto the felt and had all ready planned I would stitch around the pieces. This was the fun part. I used some of my stitches I learned from cross stitching.
When I was all finished with the sewing I painted the hoop black and I have the perfect addition to another wall in the laundry room.
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30 March 2020
25 March 2020
Carpet isn't my bag
(This post will be updated as we tear the carpet from our new home)
I am not really into having wall to wall carpet in my house. First of all, it traps dust making it hard on my allergies. The pile tends to look matted and you can just feel the germs and I just hate to be barefoot on it, or even walk on it with socks for that matter because your socks will get nasty. I had read once that chances are good when you buy or rent a house with existing carpet you get all kinds of things from previous owners/renters, like toenail clippings and I know for sure it traps all that cat hair and makes it harder to clean if they vomit. Yeah, I am done.
Most of the houses we looked at had carpet throughout the place. The one we purchased was full of it. My goal was to get rid of much of that as I could. I had no idea what was under ours. I only knew the main part of our house was built in 1967, that COULD be good because there possibly would be hardwood under some of this stuff. The first addition was built in the 1980s so chances were great that there was nothing but sub-floor under there. And the last addition was built in the 2000s, and I know what is under there because I saw photos of the construction on old realtor listing sites....all sub-floor. The last addition didn't bother me as much because it is evident that Trevor is the only person to "live" on that floor, both by the listings and the newness smell of the room. I think it was just finished recently. Carpet appears to be in perfect shape.
This post will grow longer as I tear this stuff up and redo the floors under this mess.
The grossest part to me was the carpet in the master bathroom. As of today that is still down because I have to get money to purchase new flooring for that room. I am looking at vinyl planks online but I want to see them in person. Right now our country is going through this pandemic so installing flooring is really not something I want to tackle at the moment.
All the bedrooms have a carpet that is obviously older looking than the main house and the 80s addition, so I wanted to start with those, plus I slept better in a room without carpet (allergies).
March 20, 2020
We started in the closet room because I wanted to see what we were about to get into. When we started ripping it up, the carpet tore easily. It was full of dust (and I did find a fingernail) and was hard to breathe, I will wear a mask next time. We tore the carpet in sections and ripped it up that way. It was easier to manage and easier to put in the trash can. We tore it in about 5 strips, as we got to the last strip, we saw the damage. It looks like old termite damage to four boards. I am pretty sure I can fix this so stay tuned because as I type this, it is the first morning and we are still in a pandemic so I can't get the wood I need. I am going to finish ripping up the tack strips and covered the bad spots with a carpet until I can finish this project. It took about 1 hour to get the carpet out, it is (and expected) to take much longer for the strips and the staples.
24 March 2020
Woodrow's Place
Today I am talking about this "ugly" little statue that greeted us the first time we looked at our new house. He was sitting on the sidewalk as you approached the front door. He was NOT in good shape, but I liked him. He had character, and his presence was welcoming. When we looked at the house the second time, I felt of him and notice he was solid concrete. A good sturdy dog. In my mind, I started referring to the houses we saw as names to help remember things about them, this one I called "The Dog House". I honestly never dreamed he would still be there once we closed on the house, but he WAS! My husband didn't like him (and still does not), but I loved him and I am not even a dog person. I was excited to let him stay and I wanted to name the house after him because he was his place. Since I have this obsession with all things Presidential, I started calling him "Woodrow" instead of "dog" and this because "Woodrow's Place" to me. I really want to keep him so I had to make him look good so he did not disappear while I was at work (I am still worried that will happen). Here is a little before and after of what Woodrow looked like when we purchased to what he looks like today.
15 March 2020
New house and loads of projects
First of all, I will tell you that we got possession of the house around 5pm on February 26. We could not do much on that day because it was almost dark. The movers came early on February 27 and I really only wanted to keep them 2-3 hours....so the goal was for them to move all the furniture and we would move the boxes and other stuff ourselves. We had to be out of the house on February 28, so we had to get busy and get things done. What a whirlwind!
Many of the first photos here are from the realtor site because I had NO time to get before photos due to the moving timeline.
the living room |
the living room is very large |
the living room from another angle |
I call this the "foyer", it is the space between the living and the eat-in kitchen |
to me, the kitchen is simply a dream, except the flooring |
2 photos of the hall bath |
bedroom #1, the future guest room (I have not done much in here yet) |
the fabulous linen closet in the master bath, holy cow |
master bath double sinks |
the carpeted master bath, ewwww |
the master bedroom |
bedroom #2, which I had big plans for |
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