Flowers In The Attic!

For some reason, I got this motivation to clean out the attic today. The boys helped me. Our mission? To create a space to put all their toys! I'm sick of looking at toys (that's probably not very motherly to say). Now you probably didn't see what this looked like before - but my mother has and she can attest to how messy our attic once was. Honestly, I have no idea where I put everything! So now it's more of a livable space. It's like I instantly created 400 sq ft extra in our house! I'm working on it some more tomorrow. I'm too good.

The Stairs Are Transforming!

I'm trying to clean up the stairs the a bit.  I just got the motivation.  I pulled up the pink carpet in the summer (gee!  That's almost a year ago!) and sort of just left them alone - hoping a magical fairy would come in the middle of the night and fix them up.  The fairy has not come.  Now in our defense, this wasn't a project that we wanted to be taking on right now.  The previous owners had a nice dark pink carpet down on the stairs and upstairs hallway.  It was less than 2 years old.  Besides the color, we didn't mind it much.  However, our late kitty cat Kiki decided to pee on a couple spots when she was sick last summer.  Thus began our stair renovation.  

I must have pulled out hundreds of carpet staples.  Therefore, wood filler became my best friend.

I sanded, cleaned and taped up in preparation for prime.

And I primed!  As you might notice, I still haven't painted the downstairs mouldings.  Well I painted some.  Since I'll have the paint out to do the stair faces, I'm hoping to finish the mouldings up as well.  I really like painting mouldings - but it's hard to paint with the wee little ones running around.  So I must wait for them to sleep and usually by then, I'm trying to do other things or just sleep myself.

Our Bedroom Is Pretty Much Done!

We're pretty much there with our bedroom!  I just have to put the mirror back up over my dresser, hang curtains,  put the door hardware back on the closet (yes, I even painted our doors!),  hang some pictures, and keep it clean!  Take a look!

This is what "our bedroom" looked like when we looked at the house - the previous owners used it as a sewing room.  

Now here is our bedroom with the same view as that previous picture was taken!

Another view!

Our dressers!

And yet another view!  No more fluorescent light!  

Painting the Bedroom!

Yesterday, I set a goal to paint the ceiling of our bedroom.  So since James had class after work and he wouldn't be home until about 10, I got both kids to sleep by 7, put on some coffee and got to work!  I painted the ceiling and do not ever want to paint with textured paint again.  But since the caffeine got to me, I went ahead and did the first coat of the walls too.  

It's like a mustard explosion!  But I like it!

I have to do a second coat and the mouldings.  We desperately want our bedroom back so that is my current motivation!  It's also kind of sad that the only painting I have left to do is the 2 other bedrooms and the upstairs hallway.  I like painting!

Upstairs Lights & Getting Our Bedroom Done!

James got to work yesterday to put lights in our upstairs hallway!  We are suppose to get our new service the next "good weather" Sunday.  Our electrician friend came by last week to see what was up and was surprised at how much we had done - but he didn't go upstairs since Tom was sleeping.  He probably thought every thing was done upstairs too - but oops.   It's not.  So now it's crunch time...

James running the electrical wire - he's such an expert at it now!

Voila!  Lights!  Nothing fancy but we ain't fancy people.

I'm getting to our bedroom!!!  I have to just wash off the rest of the wallpaper goo on the walls.  I primed the ceiling last night and we're going to paint it with *sigh* textured paint!  If you saw it, you would know why!  If you want to see extreme ceiling action - click on the picture and it will become all big - and you can see why we can't just paint it!  All the other bedrooms have textured paint to their ceilings so we figured "why not!"  

I bought the paint for our bedroom too.  Once again, James got sick of talking to me about different shades of this and that.  So he told me to just go to Lowe's and pick a color.  I respond "Are you sure?  Are you really sure??"  His answer, "yes."  So I went out on a limb and picked Carolina Inn Crossroads Gold.  Whoa!  That's a mouthful.  It's kind of a deep goldish yellow.  I thought it would be good to match virtually any bedding we may throw on the bed (because every knows how interior decorating is my specialty!).  I guess a more practical person would say "Becky, if you want something that will match everything, why don't you just paint it white?"  Well for some odd reason, we have a fear of white.