The Boys' Bedroom - Before & Afters!

So. I finally finished the mouldings in the boys' room. I got the furniture in there. Well, for the most part. Here are some before and afters...

What the room looked like from the door when we looked at the house:

What the room looks like from the door now:

A corner of the room before:

The same corner now:

And just a bonus picture for fun! Woohooo!

Kitchen Mouldings Continue!

James has been really good at putting up the chair rail and baseboard in the kitchen. I think it looks really good. Unfortunately, we really don't like the blue and how it all comes together. I have to buy more paint for the dining room once the built-in is rebuilt - so we might just take the leftover paint and paint the kitchen the same color as the dining room. I told James I wasn't going to paint it again until everything is done in there. Which means I won't even consider painting again until about 2011.

Look how good those mouldings look!

Here's the back corner with the mouldings done. I'm just surprised at how much more the kitchen looks put together with this stuff done. We still have more to do and we think we'll tackle the living room crown moulding next. With those $10/$50 coupons Lowe's put out last week, we're in heaven!

Starting The Fine Details!

James had to work yesterday. Blah. It's Memorial Day Weekend! But he came home around 3 and we went up to Lowe's - we're going to try to knock out some of the small details left in the house. For instance, the chair rail in the kitchen and the crown mouldings in the living room and possibly dining room. See up there! He put the chair rail up last night!

Speaking of dining room, Here is our latest addition to our dining room. James and I have had many a talk about this. Last weekend, we found these 3 beautiful pieces at the clearance center at Jordan's. We decided to buy the chest and the "bigger" dresser (it's 6 inches bigger than the "regular" dresser we recently found out.) So the delivery guys came Thursday and it wouldn't fit up the stairs. I actually went back to Jordan's on Friday night - and luckily they still had 2 of the smaller dressers left (the chest was gone). So I bought it, but managed to smooth talk the salesman to waive the delivery fee. He was very nice. Joe at the Avon Jordan's. I give him 3 thumbs up.

Oh. So James is mad because he wanted to shimmy this piece up the house and bring it in through a window. I want to throw up a wall where the china cabinet was and just put it there. This is our compromise. It surprisingly fits really well in that little popped out area of the dining room. The only problem is that it looks so nice, it REALLY makes our table look really ghetto. I mean, I knew it looked ghetto before, but now it looks super ghetto. Good thing they make table cloths!

The Boys Room So Far...

So the walls are painted in the boys room. I have to do the mouldings and touch up a few areas. I still can't decide whether I like it or not. I liked the color on the sample. I liked the color of the wet paint and then it went up. I don't know. It's one of those shades that changes a lot with the light. When it's dark in the room, it's a really gross, pukey green. When it's light, it's very pretty.

Here's kind of a dark, gross picture.

Here's another view that I like a lot. The paint shade is very pretty with so much light on it.

So far, all we put back are the beds because I want to knock out the mouldings in the next few days. Both boys got extremely excited when I put the beds so close like this. Ben goes "So I get to sleep right next to Tommy?" We'll play around with it some after all is said and done.

Paint Prep In The Boys' Room!

The day has come to paint the boys' room! We said that we were going to let Ben pick out the color - but we've since changed that. Over the past few weeks he has mentioned a few colors -which we all boycotted. In a book, he picked out "Habanero Red" - which was a deep, fire truck like red. No. Then he was set on purple. No. Orange. No. We went to Lowe's and he picked a brown. Not a nice brown. A pupu brown. No. So I told him it had to be a green or blue. We agreed on a "Moss" color. Sort of a deeper green than what's in our dining room. I'm sure it will change by the time we actually go buy the paint.

We cleared out their room and did some prep work - fill in holes and cracks with joint compound. I'm hoping to whip out the ceiling here today or tomorrow and possibly start on the walls.

Our New Ghetto Fence and Sporty New Grill!

James finished our child entrapment device. Also known as our new ghetto fence made of 2 concrete blocks, some concrete, 2X4s and plastic net stuff. Pretty? No. Gets the job done? Yes. Not bad for under $100! We also got a new grill. Ooooooh! Ahhhhhh!

Building A Fence!

James has a new mission he's trying to complete - building a fence to keep the rugrats in the backyard. A certain little red head likes to run down the driveway - a lot. So to save us energy and aggrevation of chasing him all the time, we realized it would just be easier to build some sort of mini-jail for him. Here's what it looks like so far. It should be finished this week.