More Living Room

Another Living/Dining Room BEFORE:

Living/Dining Room AFTER:

So we are still sleeping in the dining room but will be moving upstairs into the master bedroom in the next couple of weeks. The wallpaper is all peeled off in there(yay!) Anyway-the fireplace came last week & DadKuhn came over to help Zach install a ceiling fan in our living room. We need to put crown molding back up (the stuff that goes where the walls meet the ceiling) then these rooms will be done.

Random Updates!

Here's a photo I forgot to upload a couple weeks ago. DadKuhn got our shower working! (Which means no more showering/getting ready at the gym, awesome!!!)

For those of you who have known me a long time....I had been driving the same car since HighSchool. This car was not going to cut it in upstate NY snow so I got an all wheel drive SUV!

Last weekend at our local mall...yes you are looking at farm animals....

Our first flowers, on the first day of spring!

More of The Office (minus Steve Carell)

The BEFORE photo:

(Mary) So I compromised on the wallpaper thing. I stripped the paper off a wall and we put joint compound over the wallpaper seams then sanded the other 3 walls. I tested my "Concrete" by Valspar color on the walls and hated it because it looked almost lilac purple for some reason, ew! (Michelle-I wish I read your suggestion earlier!) I switched to "Cathedral Gray" by Valspar instead. Hopefully we can find a use for the "Concrete" Color elsewhere...homemade paintballs?

Spackeling:

Sanding (sporting my chemistry lab goggles):

Priming:

Starting to paint!

Tada!!!!

Somehow both Zach and I each own a big padded black leather executive office chair however I have found that I would rather sit in a wooden seat when working & studying (must have something to do with being used to the library or Barnes and Noble chairs)...I don't like how the chair swivels around when you are trying to focus on something...

...so I painted my wooden chair white

Semi set up office
(sorry about the picture quality-I have been using my camera phone since we lost our camera charger)

yay painter's tape!

Green accents in the room:

I still need to finish setting up the space but the big stuff is out of the way. Once I touch up the white paint on the trim & doors-this room will be officially done! Maybe I can call in an interior design expert...LORRAN...to help.... :)