6 Feet Of Glory!!!!!!

It's amazing how exciting you can be about a closet!  We have officially completed the closet in the master bedroom and it has really made a great difference!  It is 6 feet of glorious space compared to two feet before!   We have been able to remove the clothes rack we had in the bedroom and have (basically) all our clothes in our room.  I am going to give Brent some big credit here because he pretty much did it all and it saved us a ton of money from having to use a contractor!!!  Any thoughts in the crown molding?  We are doing it around the master bedroom but 8 feet is about $12 so we can't decide if it is worth it to do around the whole house.


Here is the after pictures of the closet  The doors and wall need to be painted but you get the idea.

Now we have to paint the room because 1) it is some ridiculous blue color I thought I liked and 2) the whole room needs a makeover.  Haha prior to this post I have shyed away from before pictures because well they were embarrassing but have decided to just show to whole truth and it will make after pictures more exciting.  So next weekend we are painting and we want to update the master by moving the furniture, adding crown molding and some new decorations.  Here is what it looks like now.

Haha you might notice the picture frame with the pictures in it from the store.  Maybe we should do something about that???  Also I hear adults have bed skirts on their beds.....

Looking forward to updating it a bit!!!!  I really don't know which way I want to go in here in terms of cutesy, trendy, plain, etc.  I tend to like a bedroom that is pretty boring and can't stand throw pillows but if somehow the room could look like this it would be great.  Here is my inspiration picture.

I showed Brent some of my "Pinterest" pins and got really excited because he agreed to attempt wainscoting somewhere in the house.  We are thinking the dining room.

In other fun project news we found cabinets and storage shelves for the laundry room.  Hopefully this week we will hear from Neal's brother to come do the tile in the laundry and room and we will totally remodel that room.  Here is the inspiration pic but we actually have a much larger space so we will have many more cabinets / storage units.

Also we should hear from Hullco this week about when our windows will be in and I expect we will have them installed sometime in the next two weeks!!!!

Hope everyone had a great St. Patty's Day!!!!

Projects, Projects, Projects

We seem to have a bunch of projects going on at the same time lately!  We are sort of all over the place doing a little in each room of the house.  It's weird I have felt lately like we haven't accomplished much because everything has sort of been chaotic, messy and some of the typical remodeling bumps have occurred along the way but we keep charging through!

The one project I wanted more than anything else was to create a larger closet in the master bedroom.  Anyone that knows old houses knows that they typically come with very small closets.  Ours was no different.  It had a two foot door but the closet was six feet wide so I needed to take adavantage of every square inch I could. 

Here is a before picture of the closet:

It was aggravating because you couldn't get anything in the back left and right of the closet.  This has sort of become a larger project than we thought in that we removed the whole wall and had to replace sheet rock and do a little more carpentry work than we first thought but honestly when it is done it will be totally worth it!  My contribution to this project was ensuring a closet organizer was purchased and Brent has been teaching me along the way!!!

Even before we were complete (considering we aren't even done as of now) I was so excited and I wanted to put the clothes in to see what it looked like and here is the glory of Brent and my clothes in the same closet!!!

They still don't all fit but it is SO much better now!!!! We are still not 100% done but getting closer!

Other projects we are working on now is cleaning out the carport.  Yes I said carport and yes I hate having a carport but it is much worse having a very very full carport of junk!  Basically the carport was a holding spot for things we didn't need and we had a back deck (many people wouldn't even know we had this because no one ever goes back there) that was full of just junk.  Most of this was stuff Brent had from before I even knew him and we just never touched because we never had anywhere to throw it all away but thank you city of Chattanooga for bringing us a dump truck. 

We had a dumpster delivered today and were able to get rid of a ton of JUNK!!!! 

Here is a few shots of how much junk needed to go!!!!

We also ripped out a bunch in the laundry room because we will have Neal's brother come put tile down and we will build new shelves out there to maximize space and storage needs.

We also completed some outside projects including cleaning out the gutters and pressure washing the front of the house but we still need to redo all the landscaping and somehow make a carport look acceptable.

This weekend I would like to work outside a bit and finish the closet in the master bedroom!

Keep on Keeping On

Well I haven't blogged over the last week because I spent a few days in Nashville for a Student Council conference followed by a few days in Murfreesboro for a School Counselor conference.  Had lots of fun and while I was away Brent also took some time away from home improvements!

So I have nothing new to show so I thought I would catch you up on some projects we had previously done!

We painted and flipped the living room.  Before we had a large sectional sofa and we had it positioned in a way we had to very separate rooms now we have one large room.  Here is the living room with no decorations.

As I have mentioned I am not a decorator so I am sort of waiting for divine inspiration to hit (translation - Cindy, Brent's Mom to come to the rescue).

Here are some things I have seen out I like but not sure how we can pull this room together.

I sort of want to go trendy with chevron like patterns in bold colors:
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Brent tends to like more natural like patterns:

Currently it is just looks open and empty in here but our next project of all new windows is ordered / measured and waiting for installation!

We have original 1952 windows and they are awful, drafty and make for a large power bill!  We ordered them through Hullco and estimated installation is  mid March!  So excited about this and can't wait for them!  Here is a embarrassing picture of exactly why we are so excited for new windows!!!  Who has air conditioning units in their windows stilll!!!!

Next weekends project - We ordered a dumpster and will be organizing, cleaning, removing, trashing, etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can't wait!!!