Boys' room - sneak peek

A quick before and after. 

Trim being installed!

Now I just need to paint the trim around the windows and floor. Goodbye tan! 

Closet number two

I forgot to take a true before picture.  Imagine that their is a makeshift shelf (see the boards to the right of the closet) that is laid across the side shelves.  And imagine that they put a short little clothing rack under it (nailed to the wall with different size nails, of course, because nothing is done properly in this house).  For a while I thought about leaving the lower shelves so the boys could hang up their own clothes, but it just took up too much space.  So I gutted the closet and started from what it used to be.  

Here is a picture of the gross, tan side shelves.  

And a picture of the closet once I removed all the makeshift shelves and patched the holes in the wall. 

After:

Shelves painted bright white. 

Top painted white. 

Bottom painted a custom green (it was from a can of lime green paint from my sister's bathroom that I added some blue and black to). 

Two days. Three ceilings.

Room 1:

Before - Everything covered in plastic.  

Also, everything removed from the room.  

After - WHITE CEILINGS!!!!

They make me so happy. 

Here is a teaser of what is to come in the boys' room.  The bottom is going to be a light blue and the top a dark blue. 

**We still have to caulk the molding and finish drywalling where the wall heaters came off before painting anymore. (Those are Jared jobs - I am not good at either - but our water heater broke this weekend and he spent most of the day replacing that and putting in a dryer vent, so he gets a pass). 

Room 2:

Before - guest room --> soon to be the baby's room

Plastic covering everything and stuff NOT moved out of the room. 

After - WHITE CEILINGS!!!

The walls are going to be a pale pale pale pink (or a pink tinted white). I cut in the boarders today and it is going to be so fresh and clean in there. 

Room 3:

I didn't get a good picture of the boys' current room. But I did paint the ceilings today. Yay! I didn't take out any of the furniture or make them clean it first and I covered about half the room in plastic.  I got braver as I went along with the ceiling painting.  

Before and After:

Banish the tan from the house!

Paint jobs to do:

1. Baby's closet
Finished: June 29th
(Linen Ruffle - leftover from various painting jobs)

2. Baby's Room
(Off white, pinkish hue)

3. Boys' Room
(two tone, dark blue up top, light blue on bottom)

4. Boys' ClosetFinished: July 3rd

(I want to do something fun like lime green)

5. Guest Room
(no ideas yet)

6. Hallway
Finished: June 29th
(Linen Ruffle - leftover from various painting jobs)

Possible jobs:
(all the ceilings are still TAN, but who is brave enough to paint a popcorn ceiling?  Me! I was brave enough)

7. Ceiling in Baby's RoomFinished: July 5th

8. Ceiling in Boys' Room

Finished: July 6th

9. Ceiling in Guest Room

Finished: July 6th

New windows

(new on left, old on right)

(Jared working on removing an old window)

We installed new windows in all the windows.  It took about a month to finish removing the old ones (and metal frames), install the new ones, insult around them, and trim them out.  Now they just need to be painted!!!

We would have loved to keep the ones that we had, but they were falling apart.  If the previous owner had painted them and kept them up, then we would have made them work.  However, they were rotting and the glass panes were falling out. These new ones are so much more airtight! Yay! I will miss the frost on the windows in the winter though... 

Picture of the front of the house coming sometime. 

(I really want to paint the front door now)

Painting List for Before Baby Comes

(I kind of like the wood trim - I wish they hadn't painted every other piece of wood trim with that horrible tan color that everything in the house is painted)

Paint jobs to do:

1. Baby's closet
Finished: June 29th
(Linen Ruffle - leftover from various painting jobs)

2. Baby's Room
(Off white, pinkish hue)

3. Boys' Room
(two tone, dark blue up top, light blue on bottom)

4. Boys' Closet
(I want to do something fun like lime green)

5. Guest Room
(no ideas yet)

6. Hallway
Finished: June 29th
(Linen Ruffle - leftover from various painting jobs)

Possible jobs:
(all the ceilings are still TAN, but who is brave enough to paint a popcorn ceiling?)

7. Ceiling in Baby's Room

8. Ceiling in Boys' Room

9. Ceiling in Guest Room