Dining Room Fail

Last week was so hectic that, unfortunately, we did not get the dining room finished. Brandon moved the rest of his things from his house, and since we did not have time to unpack them, they all wound up in the dining room. My sweet husband sanded the dining room table for me, but instead of doing it outside, he did it IN the dining room. Needless to say, the entire dining room was covered in sawdust. I managed to get the room swept and cleaned, but there are a few things left in the corner that we need to unpack. I had grand plans to finish the dining room table yesterday, but our air conditioner decided to quit working Saturday. It's probably out of freon, so someone is coming to look at it today. Luckily, all of the rooms still have the original, pre-central-heating-and-air window units. With the exception of our bedroom, that is. It's been so hot outside that they haven't done a whole lot of good, though. Hopefully our air will get fixed today, and I will get around to working on the dining room. If The Tenth Circle doesn't keep me away, that is. [=

Dining Room Table Redo

Brandon's sister gave us her old dining room table and chairs. It was white, worn, and not exactly what we wanted. We planned on buying a new table that we loved, but after a lot of thought and a little time on Pinterest, we decided we would try to spiff up free table that we had. We still have some sanding and staining to do, but this is what I've done so far.

The plan is to paint all of the chairs blue (done), stencil the seats, and stain them a dark brown. I am going to do the same thing to the table and a baker's rack that Brandon's mother gave us. It is very time consuming, so I haven't gotten very far. I am, however, in love with how beautiful it is turning out to be. (:

Making Progress

Since every room in the house has a door to shut it off from the rest of the house, the master bedroom is sort of small, and we have a king size bedroom suite, we decided to turn the master bedroom into the living room (ideal since the kitchen is across the hall) and turn the living room into the bedroom. I know it sounds weird, but we LOVE it! There's just no way we could've fit an entire king size bedroom suite into this room. It works wonderfully as the living room, though.

I spent hours cleaning every piece of wood in what is now the bedroom with Pledge oil. I am in love with that stuff. It really worked wonders on the old wood, and made the room look even more beautiful!

 

Spiderman was wonderful, but without any kids, we had no use for it! The room looks much brighter now without the blue.

We painted the small room connected to our bedroom and turned it into a closet. I am IN LOVE.

We decided to leave the kitchen alone since it had a new black, tile backsplash. We just cleaned it and added some curtains for a little warmth.

So far, everything is coming along nicely. It is feeling more and more like home each and every day! (:

Before the Redo

We fell in love with the house the instant we saw it, but we knew it would need A LOT of work before it would ever really feel like home. Here are a few pictures of what we had to work with. :)



This is the mudroom. The picture is a little blurry; I apologize.

To the right is our laundry room.

Our very long hallway and Brandon being goofy...

The first room to the left is the master bedroom and master bath.

The kitchen is to the right. We have a TON of cabinet space!

The dining room is connected to the kitchen by a swinging door. The kitchen also has a swinging door that shuts it off from the hallway. I am definitely a fan of swinging doors. They are too convenient not to love!

Down the hall to the left is the guest bedroom that will forever be known as "The Spiderman Room."

At the end of the hallway is the living room.

The third bedroom is connected to the living room.

A New Chapter

I married my best friend 4 weeks ago today! :) We are renting a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in Blue Mountain, and it has been an adventure! This grand adventure has inspired me to start a blog in hopes that documenting our progress will give me that extra push to continue checking things off of the to-do list. So far, we have painted 3 of the 4 rooms that absolutely had to be painted and moved everything into every room. With the exception of the dining room, that is; it is currently dark red and bare. We're hoping to get it painted this week! I've been working on redoing the dining room table and chairs, but I haven't finished those yet. We just can't seem to get it done - probably because it will be a room that we barely use. 

You can see why it needs to be painted this week, right?