Front Hallway - Tiling Has Begun!

James tiled the floor yesterday.  We now just have to wait 24 hours and then he can put the grout down.  We just continued the kitchen tiles into the hallway.  We bought a bunch of them what, like 2 years ago when we tiled the kitchen.  We finally put them to use.

I also painted the kitchen green a few days ago.  Here I am in my homemaker apparel to show it off.  I need to organize the kitchen some before I "show it off" more.  Plus, it doesn't help that there is the front hallway radiator just sitting in the middle of the kitchen.  I really like it though.  We used the same green as we did in the dining room and it is definitely more of what we had in mind as far as a "finished" kitchen than that awful blue.  The blue wasn't a bad color by itself - it was just bad in our kitchen.  I even painted our backdoor green!  I think it looks great.  Since it's raining today and Ben's camp got cancelled, maybe I can actually organize this place.  I am probably jinxing myself.

Tile That Floor James!

While we were away in CT for the weekend, James got bored.  He ripped up the flooring in our front hallway.  We came home to this:

It brought back flashbacks from living in our un-done kitchen back in 2008.  Since this, James laid down some plywood, cement board and has all the tiles cut to put down.  We're just waiting for this weekend when he should have enough time off in a row to actually lay the tiles.  We're just continuing the tiles we put down in our kitchen 2 years ago.

Home Improvements are always more fun with a 2 year-old helping you!

Porch and Other Updates!

We haven't really done anything too major to the house recently.  Just a lot of little odds and ends.  We finally put blinds and a curtain up in our downstairs bathroom!  Woohoo!  It only took us 2 1/2 years - so apologies to any of our neighbors who enjoyed peeping at us in the past.

The dining room built-in is completely done with handles attached.  I just have to concentrate on keeping it clean now!

James finished up some oddball stuff in the kitchen.  We tried some paint samples because the blue isn't working for us.  We thought having a brown in there might do the trick, but after a couple random "browns" on the wall - we have decided that we don't like it.  Since we have almost a full gallon of our green paint from the dining room, we're thinking we'll just go ahead and paint it the same color as the dining room since we love that color so much.  Our motto:  You can never have too much green in a house!

The outside of the house is killing us.  Just because we really have zero idea what to do with it.  We have random bushes and trees all over.  We'll probably just kill them all off.  We did manage to put up our mailbox and house numbers!  Woohoo!

We also threw down a rock walkway for now.  We're not sure what we're going to do with it permanently, but this will do for now (it will probably still be like this 20 years from now knowing us....)

We have thrown down a bunch a grass seed a while ago to get the front yard looking good - but our front yard was always very shaddy due to a neighbor's tree.  But Whoa!  This past Tuesday, our neighbors had their huge, dying tree cut down!  Now we have sun in our front yard all day long!  Now maybe our grass seed will grow with some more dedication to watering it.

We had an electrician come in and throw in the outside light and a bunch of outlets in the porch.  He did this Saturday.  The electrical inspector is suppose to come Thursday or Friday and if we get the okay from him, the electrician can finish up the job.  We think we're just going to go ahead and sheet rock it.  We've been going back and forth about putting up wood walls/dry wall - but dry wall just seems easier.

That is it for now!  Maybe with Tommy's birthday party coming up, we'll get remotivated to do some stuff.  Parties always motivate me to do stuff on the house.  I don't know why.