Half Bath...

I realized I never posted this!

Here was our first project completed in the house! The main floor half bath!

Before...

AFTER!!!

We got this baby for $100 at good ol' Home Depot. The drawer under the sink is really actually a drawer too!

I love everything about this bathroom!

Our House!!!

Well, I didn't anticipate being so busy that I couldn't get to the blog for almost 3 months! YIKES! Sorry to those who have been so good and checking in and reminding me!

SO... WE CLOSED ON OUR 1ST HOME!!! YEAH! We closed March 31. The first 3 weeks were spent redoing, painting, refinishing, tearing out, putting in,etc... We didn't actually move in until the end of April! However, we are finally getting settled after our crazy lives taking us out of town a couple times.

However, I will do posts of each room before and after... but for now here are all the BEFORE pictures. This is the condition of the home when we closed. It was a short sale, so everything was as-is, which in all honesty is still in quite good condition, just some paint change and decorating and we'll be good!

First on our tour... the Living Room. The first room you walk into when you come in.
*Note: cheep looking pergo flooring, brass fixtures, gross window coverings and brown wall (which we later found out was exterior paint...whoops!)

Something to notice on our tour, NOTHING MATCHED ANYTHING!
The door on the right goes to the basement.

Front door and linen closet...
Again Note: Brass fixture, window coverings, gross tile next to the pergo with a metal transition strip!

As we continue into the house, we walk into the kitchen and family room open area.

This is the kitchen.
Note: GROSS RED/ORANGE TILE (which we later found out was laid on TOP of old linoleum), and brass light fixture and the continuation of brown (exterior flat) paint.

We love the family room! It's huge. I love how open it all is too. This room wasn't bad. Carpet just needed a good cleaning. The paint in here, wasn't too bad. Not my favorite, but livable. It's a brunswick beige we concluded. The curtains were kinda ugly, but again livable and VERY easy to change.

The half bath on the main floor.
Note: Pedestal sink (I hate those) and again with the ugly tile.

Our 2 car garage! (Or my "studio" we like to call it) We currently can only park one car in there because of my "to-do" list of all the pieces I have to refinish. Seriously, there are like 10 in there... so LOTS for me to do and posts for you to see! yeah!

Back inside, we'll continue up the stairs to the 2nd floor...

The view after you walk up the stairs. 4th bedroom (Brooke's room) on the left, Master bedroom on the right, plus a linen closet!

The first room at the top of the stairs is the guest room.

We are anxious for any guests to come visit and stay with us!

The second room down the hall is the 2nd bedroom (Tanner's room).

His is the smallest out of all the bedrooms, but still a GREAT size.

The view out of Tanner's room. Guest room on left, kids/guest bathroom on right and the stairs at the end of the hall...

The kids/guest bathroom.

Now, as we continue the tour, you will need to BRACE YOURSELF...

The Master Bedroom... Yes, it is even brighter in person. We affectionately refer to this room as "Blue Man Group" blue. We LOVE the ceiling fan though. Also, the curtains in this room are now in the family room... The door on the right is our WALK-IN CLOSET! (It's the small things we're super excited about! ;) Our room is the same size as our family room. It's 15x17. It's huge, bigger than my parents' one that they've lived in for 20 years... Seriously, its awesome!

The closet on the left and entrance on the right.

MASTER BATHROOM! We FINALLY have our own bathroom!

Master bathroom... although it's nothing quite "master" about it. It's the same size as the kids', but we're just excited we have our own! :D

Next is the 4th bedroom (Brooke's room). THIS IS HUGE! It's the biggest of the kids' rooms. 11X13. Yeah, I could fit a bunk beds, and another twin bed in here if I wanted... So eventually we'll have kids "bunking up" together... but for now Brooke gets it all to herself. I would have killed to have a room this big when I was growing up...

The view out of Brooke's room. Master on left, guest room on right!

Now, to go ALL the way downstairs... OUR BASEMENT! Yes, it's a full unfinished basement! It's approx 800 sq feet! IT'S HUGE! Dan's workshop will be on the right, we'll section it off so we can saw and chop and nail to his hearts content. (That is also where our 2nd fridge and food storage is...) My washer and dryer are on the left. I'll have a craft/scrapbooking corner set up over there. Where I'm standing to take the picture is where the kids play area and future toy disasters will be!

Now, back outside... our backyard! We were able to talk with the last owner after closed and found out what the 3 trees were in the backyard. We have a crap- I mean crab apple tree, an oak (as seen on the right) and an aspen shoot from our neighbors yard. We also have grapes!!! We hope to get a swing set someday, along with some peach trees and garden grow boxes.

That concludes our tour! That's our home!!! Does it look like a blank canvas to anyone else?! ;) Ha! I'm so excited and have about a million ideas of stuff to do... but some will have to wait. I think we have the next 15 years of tax returns already planned out. Hehe.. however I'll doubt we'll be in this house that long, but who knows!!! The thought of moving again makes me TOTALLY cringe!

Since my Dad was our AWESOME realtor, we got a screamin deal on our house. It appraised for $210,000 and the purchase price was $195,000! WOO! Thanks DAD!
(P.S. If you're house hunting in the Denver metro area, I highly recommend him, not just because he's my Dad, but because he's awesome! He has won 5 awards just this year alone, one of which was the top 5 realtor's in ALL OF DENVER, and that's all the companies combined, not just inside Keller Williams. So seriously... call him.)

SIGNING THE ACTUALLY PAPER THAT SAID WE HAVE PURCHASED IT AND IT WAS PUT IN OUR NAME!!! EEK!

We are OFFICIALLY homeowners!!! Yeah!

Stay tuned for more updates and projects I do!

xoxo!

The high chair!

I got this high chair at yet... you guessed it... ANOTHER garage sale! It was listed for $25 (what!) and another lady working the sale told me $5! WOO! I was so excited! I got it like almost 2 years ago. I tried to use some of the wood oil on it to get nice again... but alas no such luck.

So, since I did my table red, I decided to do this red too... I debated on color for quite a while since this was going to be a "unisex" item. Alas, I settled on red.

Here it is before...

The tray was totally dingy, rubbed and banged up.

However, this was my favorite part of the whole high chair. The detailed carving work!

The high chair had this bar across the lap and it seemed totally pointless... I mean unless it was to keep the child in when the tray wasn't on, but they could still slide under or just climb out. So I decided to unscrew the bar.

I then primed it white with the KILZ spray primer.

I then used Rust-o-leum's Colonial Red to paint.
It's the best red I've found. It's the same color as the table.
This is what it looked like before I glazed it black!

The end result is AMAZING!

You ready?

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TA-DA!!!
Isn't it beautiful!?

I like it so much better without that weird bar...

The glaze REALLY brought out the detail work in the wood! I really love it!

I just love all the detail in the whole thing too.

What do you think!? Awesome huh?!
Did I mention how much I love it!?

Well... we close TOMORROW on our home! So maybe between signing our life away, the carpet picnic, our sleepover in sleeping bags, tearing out tile and pergo flooring and doing some painting... (oh... the list goes on) I'll post some updates! However, don't be surprised if you don't hear from me for a bit. (However, I did get our internet set up to be installed next Tuesday!)

Wish us luck!!!

The buffet table

Sorry it's been a little bit since my last reveal... I've had quite the busy week with my daughter turning 3... plus we are closing our our house THIS WEEK!!! YEAH!

Anyways... I got this piece for.... FREE! Yep... this was from my grandma's ol' storage room. (It's amazing the stuff you can get to refinish out of your grandparents basement!) She decided to get rid of it and I quite honestly, I debated about this project. I didn't know if I could pull it off. But alas, I figured I would try and then if it didn't work... get rid of it myself!

Here are the BEFORE pictures...

Old and dingy... but def some potential there...

It opens up to expand, hence buffet table. My grandma literally used it as the buffet table for our family dinners to put all the dishes on.

This piece will be going in our Living Room. In there, we are getting new carpet that is a warm topey color. It's actually called Mellow Maple I believe. Then the walls will be a greenbrier beige
I have dark green microfiber couches with pillows that have some bold patterns with black, grey, mustard yellow and brown and cream. I got the color idea from here.

I sooo excited for the finish product!

I first started off by take all the hardware and doors off and taping up the hinges and top of the table.

I then primed it with KILZ primer (do NOT use the odorless one...its horrible). With this stuff, you are not required to sand before hand. I LOVE it!

I then waited until the primer was dry. I actually waited like 24 hours. Then I sprayed everything with the Krylon spray paint. The color I used was the Bauhaus Gold. I love it!

This stuff dries REALLY quickly and so it made it easy to get it all done in just one morning. I was then able to glaze by that afternoon. Make sure you let it dry for a little bit longer than the can says, just so you dont pick it up and find out the under layers are wet and you create a smudge. (In that case, just wait til its dry, sand that spot and repaint it...)

I then was ready to glaze. Doing this makes me so nervous because it dries rather quickly and you need to wipe it off almost right after you put it on.

I use Ralph Lauren's glaze. Its been recommended most. When you buy it, make sure you ask them to tint it for you. It doesn't come tinted. I have them do it in black.

This is my glazing station all set up! (P.S. I love the Diet Dr Pepper Cherry, but I the reason there is so much is because it was on sale and when we move into our house, we will be house poor and soda is one thing we can cut out... so... we stocked up. ;) Plus, it makes for good use to help prop things up while you paint!)

This is what it will look like when you apply the glaze. You would then take a rag and wipe it off, going WITH the grain of the wood... this is key!!! Make sure you get in the corners and crevices to really make sure you get the "antiqued" look you want.

Make sure you let the glaze also dry for about 24 hours just to be on the safe side.


Now.. are you ready to see the finished product?

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TA-DA!!!

Isn't is fun!? Now, I understand some people don't like bold things, especially for furniture... but not this lady!!! :D

I did have to spray the top black a little to cover up some of my spills I got on it...

This table will serve as my entry table with a lamp of some sort and a bowel with some fun things in it... Don't worry all the ideas that are swimming around in my head are just WAY too much to put down in writing... ;)

I did spray the handles and hardware in a metallic black. I really think it helps make everything just POP!!!

I ABSOLUTELY love it!!! I'm so excited to get it in my house!!!