The Living Room

I've never posted a picture of our living room because it has never had anything in it but a few boxes.
I'm slowly getting it together, so let's take a peek shall we?



I'm in love with the pillows and rug I found at TJ Maxx





A view from the other side.



Love these pillows too!



I'm adding an ottoman, paint, curtains, and a lamp soon, so I'll post more updates!

Bella sure enjoys the new space:

House Updates: Kitchen & Entry

This is another progress post.

We have painted. It's amazing what a difference painting can make, and I'm so exited to show you! We still want to change the lighting and add decor, but it already feels so crisp and clean and I like that.


This was the picture I showed you when we first moved in. I know, the color was fine, but just not what we wanted.






This is what I had in mind:





We painted it a khaki-ish color, but sometimes looks gray.  The island is painted a shade of blue. Can you tell? Here is a closer look.






Here it is looking back from the hallway. We bought new curtains with blues and grays at Lowes.






And here it is from the back door:






Let's move to the entry shall we? This is when we first moved in.







Here it is with a new color, light, and rug.







And a peek from our living room into the entry and kitchen.






Stay tuned, because this room is almost done!!

Hoped you enjoyed the updates!










Between Naps on the Porch

Our New Home

***Okay< blogger has really changed things up on me. I cannot figure out how to get it to look nice...working on it. Hello! Wow, what a busy month it has been. We are settling in nicely, and I finally found my camera charger, so why not share some pictures. Please excuse the little messes and plastic still on new lamps in the background of some pictures. This has been a slow process..ha. We are already starting on painting, so I will add updates when we are finished. This is the house..how we moved in. Okay! Come on in. The very small entry. Our kitchen. Our family room. My favorite little reading corner. A sleeping boy and a dutch door! The landing. One little boy's room..the cleanest one ha. Master bathroom. Please excuse the wrapping on lamps and the sonic cup ;) Our bedroom..so far. That is all that is in this massive room...haha, this room is the same size as the family room, our bed looks tiny in here. We will get to it someday! So there is a peek of most of our home. I will be sure to invite you in as we work on it! P.S. It's good to be back here. Hope you are all doing well!

Quick Laundry Redo

I have no before pictures of our laundry room, so you'll have to imagine a white room with 80's style brown wood cabinets, doors, and drying rack, and a white linoleum floor. I wonder why I never got a picture of it?!

About $100 and a day later (not including the floor that we did a year or so ago)the room is fresh and feels bigger. I use it as our mudroom as well since it is right off of our garage.

Painted the walls a light aqua, trim and cabinets white, and the doors black.



Space behind the door holds iron and board.



Not a big space at all, but love how good it feels to walk into this room now! AND all the laundry is done ;) Wish we had done this years ago...

A Boy Room

The boys wanted an orange room....(well, ONE boy wanted an orange room) I opted for an orange bedspread. Three boys in one room has certainly proved to be hard to decorate. We wanted it simple but playful.

I still need stuff on the walls, but I'd never get around to showing you if I waited until that was done, so here we go!

The room is a beautiful blue/aqua color. The furniture is black except the bedside table which I painted yellow and lined with a map. Still needs knobs.







You may be wondering how we fit 3 boys in this room. A few years ago we tore down the double closet and made a little more room.

This is what it looked like about 4 years ago...



After:



We built a little, well organized closet at the end. And we painted the doors black. LOVE them!



And, if you look back the other way we have an old antique armoir from my parents house that we have used for art storage in the past, now hold their toys.

Our School Room

I've been working hard to organize and make our school room a pleasant place to be. We don't do all of our work in in here, but we do some. And, I personally love having a place for everthing.

We painted the bottom a cheerful apple green. It really is a happy and soothing room.



This is the other wall. We have a reading corner and a chest full of my supplies, extra notebook paper, and folders. On top we have our new art station with items that are used most often. A roll of paper, crayons, glue, scissors, and that huge red bucket full of markers I picked up at a garage sale for $3.

The red basket beside the chest is my organization for school. (Like the workbox system) We have folders labled with numbers, and I slip the work in order for the day.



Here is a closer look at our reading corner. It has a big comfy chair, and a small book shelf (holder) my wonderful husband made out of pallet from our new grass. I found a beautiful fabric for the windows, but I don't want to spend the money, so maybe later. These work just fine.



Here is our nature table. It holds all of our treasures, a magnifying glass, nature kaleidoscope, books, and our journal.





Our little shelf holds a writing center with pencils, notebooks, dry erase boards, magnetic poetry, notecards, and a picture dictionary.



Along with some early readers.



This is the other wall. Dress up clothes, a closet, and a shelf with manipulatives, fine arts, and preschool trays.





The closet holds books and projects we'll be using through out the year. It also has the items I use for the preschool trays.



That's it! The school room is finished and ready to be used. We usually do reading and small activities in there. Our main studies are simply taken (in the red crate) to the kitchen so I can cook, or clean while we are working.



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