Goodbye Cave Dwelling!

This was our living room 

(of course I started tearing it apart before I snapped a picture and yes, that is "Deliverance" on the TV- "you got a purty mouth, boy").  

On Saturday morning I said to the Mister "Could we PLEASE get the new trim put up today?" and that started the whole ball rolling.  He said he really wanted to paint the walls before he nailed the new trim up and then...

he said he really wanted new carpet and so we might as well do new tile around the fireplace before we had new carpet installed!

Here's a picture of the fireplace before the tile was removed:

after the tile was removed...so creepy!  I was afraid a critter was going to crawl down the chimney and run loose in our house!  But then again, isn't a wild possum lose in the house a bloggers DREAM?

I was never a huge fan of this wall color, it was SO dark in here!  

The kitchen after the cabinets got re-painted, but pre granite and tile backsplash.

I get a little crazy about picking paint colors, I always 2nd guess myself.  After my hideous entry way disaster I've been shell shocked and afraid to pick a color for the great room because it's a huge area with no real breaks, so I had to pick 1 main color.  I went with Tobacco Leaf, which is just that, kind of a khaki color.  With the 1st swipe of the brush, I knew I didn't know if I liked it- I saw the panic on the Mister's face but I had 3 full gallons of this color... Now that it's up, it's so much brighter in here!  

There's still a LOT to do: trim, fireplace, new carpet, new lights and someday...

new furniture! Don't ya know when you freshen up one thing, it makes everything else start to look ratty.  I'm talking to you faded red couch!

Anything you're working on in your home?

Anything you need to do but want to avoid (like me and my entry?!)?

Happy Tuesday friends!!!

Mother Nature is on my hit list!!

This is what I woke up to...NO, I am not kidding and YES, it IS April 18th....

Remember my bragging last week?  We had green grass 

and flowers poking through last years ratty mulch

Mother Nature: why you so mean??

Yesterday (during the holy day of REST) the Mister and I repainted our entire Great Room...We got rid of the horrible DARK green that made our home look like a cave all winter!!

At least someone was obeying that rest commandment!

We still have a LOT of work to do in this room, but here's a sneak peek 

Happy Monday, hope it's snow-free where you are!

Halloween pics

It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a vampire bat!

No, nothing cutesy for this girl... but i did line the cape in pink velvet for myself! :)

i wish i could add sound effects for the squawking I had to put up with trying to get the white make-up on her!! Oh boy, you'd have thought i was pulling her skin off the bone!

Here she is with her teacher- "Dorothy"

I didn't take a lot of pictures, it was raining out & I never even got a shot of her with our GIANT pumpkins! Actually- we didn't carve any this year-I guess we got caught up in glittering the skulls... If we get a dry spot this weekend I may have her put on her outfit again & try to grab some pictures before the snow flies! Our 16 year old went out with friends & didn't take one picture!! I'm going to have to show that girl "the way" on photo documenting her life for MY blog!!

Ok- here are some before and not-all-the-way-done-after pictures of our master bedroom. It was this tomato red...

It's now" Tiffany Blue" with white trim... I say "almost" after because the doors have to be changed out, the trim put around the floor & windows, new lamps, furniture & all the "good stuff" hung on the walls, but here's some progress:

Eventually we'll put wall to wall carpet in this room. I found the lamps I want & we need to find some bedside tables and a BED! Our bed is just on a frame, a frame with WHEELS! I told the mister it was like sleeping on a trailer. We've looked & i just couldn't decide the style I want, but i think I've found what I want now...i THINK??!!

this is a view of the closet doors... UGLY!!

Well, here's the wall blue & the new white trim, but the doors.... yikes! Can you tell I can't reach that top shelf & just whip my sweaters up there? Don't even look on that bottom shelf where i have my sheets... Poor Martha would have a heart attack!! Haha, life is too short to neatly fold things that are suppose to be behind closed doors!! The mister has the doors in his shop putting a coat of white on them.... So, these are not the last pictures I'll post, I'll make sure & get some when it is finished, but I sure think it looks better than it did already- even with the vac sitting there!

Ok, i better get moving!

Happy Tuesday!!