Here we go...The ((almost)) Finished Product!

Dun dun dun....Here are the after pictures! Enjoy!

The front sitting room- (Georgia's Bday party decorations are still up... but you get it)

Remember that pantry?? It is now Georgia's art room!

 "Imagine" This looks kinda messy but it really is super organized!

Remember Ugly Mirror #2? It now hangs in her Art Room.

Fridge and Coffee Bar and new light fixture...

Family Room

Georgia's Bathroom

Georgia's Bedroom

The stenciling of these walls was a P.A.I.N.

 The "office" or "movie room"...still not sure.

My Bedroom

 That's about it! I'm happy to say I'm "finished" for now...of course I'm really never finished but I'm taking a break for awhile. ;)

So I go to thinking I couldn't leave you with those pictures of the house- they are awful. So here are some mid- construction...

This is the hallway bathroom- repainted and textured the wall.

Another shot of the hall bathroom....

This is the textured wall- again in the bathroom. 

 The front room completely destroyed.

 I had two pantries originally- This one is under the staircase- I really did not need two pantries so I brainstormed ideas for this area and turned it into Georgia's craft room- this is before.

 My bedroom- I had to rip up the floors, break up the concrete sub floor, screw 2x4's into the existing joists and put down plywood on top.

My room again- ugh- pea green walls....

Moving day- Last day in the "tower"

A little side project- I purchased a few mirrors like the one below and painted them to match my decor- they turned out amazing!

The ugly mirror seen above repainted.

Front room finished with floors, molding and paint.

 Back family room semi- complete, although it is completely re-arranged now.

 Area where the breakfast table was now holds the refrigerator and coffee bar.

 Georgia's bathroom- complete! (Except there is a chandelier in here now..)

Whoa! This looks terrible, but the beginnings of Georgia's room (remember the horrid red/ blue room that was here before?)

Hallway- kinda boring...

All for now! I will post more completion pics soon!

xoxo

It's that time of year again....Georgia's birthday! Can you believe my sweet girl will be FIVE years old? It's pretty unbelievable to me too. Her party is on Saturday and will be a Mermaid theme. Just a small get together at the house but it will be fun! In the meantime I am in a race to bake cakes, make cake balls, prepare the food, finish the decorations and maybe make a tutu skirt?

Not 24 hours after my last post I went home and heard something from upstairs. Couldn't figure out what it was...later I was giving Georgia a bath and saw her chandelier in her bathroom had fell! Luckily I make sure to secure my handiwork with safety cords so it did not fall or break, just kinda came off of the wall and was hanging there. Which reminds me...I need to hang that back up tonight with some better re-enforcement...

Things are definitely coming along at the house. My chairs came in- YAY! and the rest of the woodwork is f.i.n.a.l.l.y. being painted. Decided randomly last night I wasn't busy enough so I replaced a couple of doors that now need to be painted before the BIG day Saturday. No pressure.

Winston Modeling the Chair for me..

Playing around with the room set-up

I messed around in that room some more last night and it now looks amazing. I am sure I will snap some shots of it this weekend at G's party. Actually I think I will do a pre-show photo shoot while it's still clean....


School is almost over for the semester and I could not be happier about that. This semester has been sooooo stressful and fast paced. I am ready for a break.

Speaking of Georgia growing up- guess who has their Pre-School graduation tomorrow? That's right! Miss G! I'm sad her baby days are really and truly over, although I know I have really enjoyed every single minute of time I've had to spend with her.

This is Georgia and her BFF Lilly- we took Lilly and Georgia for Mani/Pedi's to celebrate Lilly's 5th Bday!

 Afterward, Georgia posed in a tree..

She is so gorgeous! (and smart and funny and sweet!)

Georgia wanted to help make dinner one night while I was cooking. She asked for plates and set the table for us, then made us dinner. If you cannot see we each get a plate of grated cheese. Yum delish (gag) and Georgia gets a chocolate bunny for dinner on the side of the grated cheese. (Seriously I'm gagging).

This little boy and Georgia think they are going to get married (ummm not so fast buddy) Georgia tells me over and over and over again how she and Aiden Lexa are going to marry each other blah, blah, blah. Yeah- not over my dead body unless you are 28-30 years old Miss G. And seriously- who even talks about dating/marriage in PRE-K??? She's got more important things to worry about child genius that she is. I told her she is not allowed to date until she is 20. I think they are sticking to playing Power Rangers for now. Jeez.

My little brother, Michael, was in town for about a month and just left on Sunday. It was great to see him and fun to see him being an Uncle. Georgia adores him.

 Ugh- I don't know how to make this not sideways- sorry. It's driving me crazy too.

Finally Scott's parents came into town for a quick visit and here is a pic of us at dinner:

I have no idea why this one is the right way.

Since I haven't ever done this...here are some "before" pics of the house.

The front..not much has changed here.... 

 

This is what you saw when you first walked in (DISCLAIMER- there are the pics from HAR)

  

Another view of the disgusting pea green walls. This guy repainted the entire place before putting the house on the market. WHY THIS COLOR???

 

From the front part to the dining table....

 

 

Kitchen

 The above picture is now Georgia's room.

 There you go- sorry they aren't all titled. But this blog thing is irritating me right now. The rest of the photos were pics of the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms. I'll try to post some better "after" pics soon!


 Here is a random pic of mid-construction. The walls were mostly painted and flooring ripped up.

 

Okay enough of the never ending post here. 

Chandeliers Part 5

I cannot believe it is all ready APRIL!!! Where has the time gone?

I have been so busy lately and in between work, school and Georgia I am STILL trying to finish up the house. Seriously. It's ridiculous.

For example- I purchased Georgia's chandelier for her bedroom in late January/ early February. It arrived and was sitting in it's box until about a month ago when I climbed up the ladder to take down her ceiling fan. Once I had that thing off I realized it was a total mess (the ceiling) and the mounting for the chandelier would in no way cover it. Have I mentioned before the guy who owned this place before me was an electrical catastrophe? (Not saying I'm any better, I've have personally installed each and every one of my fixtures and I would say 75% could fall if they are bumped too hard...but by the time I'm at the end of the project I'm so frustrated I don't really care- as long as it's up and in an area where it won't fall on someone's head I'm okay!)

So I realized I needed to buy one of those medallion things that you put on the ceiling in between the mount and the ceiling- getting too technical for you, yeah me too.

Anyway- I purchased this thing, which took me a couple more weeks to get over to Home Depot. Then it sat in my car for awhile and finally made it's way into Georgia's closet for safe keeping until last Sunday when I decide I'm going to bust this out and hang the chandelier! Everything from A to Z went wrong. The anchor thing you are suppose to hang it from in the ceiling was too short with the medallion thing, so another trip to HD to create my own anchor thing. Back home to put it in place but the drill's battery is dead. Wait for that to charge. Hook everything up, it's working and screw into place. My home-made anchor thing ended up being quite long so by the time I had it screwed into the ceiling the connections were lost.

So I did what any normal 26 (still won't claim the new age) year old would do. I ran out to my shed and grabbed my sheetrock saw. (I kinda laugh everytime I realize I actually own something like that.) and cut out the ceiling. The wires were all jumbled and I was all ready an extremely frustrated girl. Found said wires, reconnected then twisted the anchor thing back into the ceiling.

This process took no less than 6 hours. Then I got to hang 300 crystals from this wonderful fixture, cursing it the entire time. Grand total of hours spent hanging chandelier = 10.

Look on Georgia's face when she saw it= Priceless!

I'm well on my way to a Chandelier in every room. So far we are at a grand total of 5.