Monday, November 29, 2010

day two in OUR HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

so yesterday was move day... we hired a company to move our big things... as we settled it to the house and got some christmas decorations up, we realized good or bad, this is our HOME. neither of us have a had a home of our own since we moved out of our parent's. While going back to our parents home will always be comforting, nothing compairs to our own home!!!!


here are some pictures of the work we have been doing!!!

upstairs full bath

living room comming together


my poor pretty car has turned into a work vehicle :(
garage cleaner then it has been in a LONG time!

work zone!!!!!!!! but the fireplace mantel is on!!!!!!!!!!

yet another work zone!!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

the floor is installed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and its beautiful!!!!!! tish and doug (brian's parents)  have been with us since wed, in from Nebraska to help with our new floors and trim!!! Noreen and Stephan (Heather's parents) also came over and helped!! a lot of work was done. Brian and Doug did the floors while Tish and Noreen painted a TON of trim and fireplace pieces. Stephen did a bunch of electrical work and helped out on many jobs, we even got to see fireworks when the 40 year old dremmel died!!! Heather's main job was to remove TWO floors of laminate and partical board sub floor. Needless to say, everyone is exhausted, sore, brusied, cut up and tired!!!


 

 


the work zone!!

the floor heather removed!!!
the living room!!!!!!!!!!!! looks SOOOOOOO good
MY FAV ROOM!!! -the dining room..



Watching the football game and refueling after a hard day's work!!!!!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

sooooo sore!!! - both of us!!

we were very busy this weekend!!!!!!!!!! luckily we have great family and friends who helped us!!!!!!!! we painted and put new floors in the bathroom! and multiple other odd jobs through out the house!!!
Here are some pictures of the work we did!!!! oh ps.... grouting bathroom floors is a great way to exfoliate your hands, if you need a new technique ;) !!!! Tish and Doug will be here in just a couple days! Cant wait to see them!

















oh ... :) andddd the christmas present pile is growing!!!

Monday, November 8, 2010

the carpet is in!!!!!!!!!!!!

today the new carpet was installed!!! here are some pics the rooms are going to look amazing with the new white trim!!!!!!! the carpet is super plush and soft! no shoes in my house ;) !!!





Sunday, November 7, 2010

its begining to look a bit like christmas!!!!!!!!!! ( a non-house post)

getting sooooooo excited for christmas over here!!!! two of heather's fav. christmas things are shopping and wrapping gifts and starbucks christmas cups!!!!!!!!!!!! ... a triple peppermint mocha for heather and triple carmel mochiato for brian is the only thing that got us working today!

exhaustion!!!


Master bedroom - still need to pick an accent wall color!

guest bedroom!!
we are soooooo tired, we worked really hard thur, fri, sat and sunday to get the upstairs ready for the carpet installation which is happening tomorrow morning (monday). We painted and cleaned and installed and tore things out, but we are feeling pretty good about the progress. the painting is 90% done!!! All thats left is the is the bathrooms to paint! Here are some new pictures!







third bedroom



























our invention to edge the vaulted ceiling in the staircase!!!


heather using it!







heather's hair... could be the new highlight hair trend ;)
 

Brian painting the walk in closet in the master!!!!!
this will be under the carpet in the masterbedroom... artwork by heather!!!



























Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Painting, and more painting...

This weekend was spent painting the entire lower level (well, minus the half bath). We picked a taupe to be our neautral. (parisian taupe at home depot).  I am personally super exited with the color we picked for the dining room. The progress is slow but getting some (good) color on the wall is defiantely helping.

a BIG thank you to my parents who have helped the past two weekends!!! we really really appreciate it!

this is the living room how it was when we took pocession
so far the improvement!!
dining room before

dinning room color!!!

neutrals we were considering.. we went with second from the left

where the taupe meets the sage green. (ignore the old yellow at the top, thats gone!!!)


This weekend's goal is to paint the upstairs and remove the wall paper from the third bedroom!!!
-h