{Scarlett's Room} before and after

More snow in KY (in March - don't get me started) means more time to clean and take pics and post.

Next up is Scarlett's room.  When we moved in over a year ago she was still in a crib!  Seems like forever ago.  But that didn't last long because I found a bedroom set that I liked and sold her crib out from under her.  Bad mom?  Yes.  But I can't resist a good find.

Here is her room when we bought the house:

And here it is now:

Just the other day she was hanging on one of those posts and broke it off...

I bought all of her bedding and curtains from Ebay - it was new from Pottery Barn. 

 

Lilli picked out this bear when Scarlett was born

Ballerina stuff is leftover from her 3rd birthday party

Those booties were hand knitted by one of my special needs students!  And that was the tutu she wore in the next picture!

The gown belonged to my dad and his brothers.  The pumpkin was how I told Jason I was pregnant.  The hat was hers in the hospital and the vase is from her hospital stay, filled with flowers from our wedding.

Auntie got her this for Christmas

Would you believe me that I bought the entire bedroom suit (including 4 post bed) for 150 bucks!?  I did.  It was in horrible shape, but Nana painted it with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint "Paris Grey" and spray painted the knobs.  I love it!

I added this shelf liner to the insides of the drawers. One - they were old and water stained.  Two - its cute and fun.  I ordered it from Amazon, they have tons of cute patterns.

Here is the "before" - it was cream and had some water damage.

I bought those prints off of Etsy and they were in her nursery.  I still love them!  I painted the frames blue with leftover paint from Lilli's old room. 

Jason's baby blanket and Scarlett's fancy blanket

This horse was handmade and given to us from a friend of Auntie Ashley's.  It is so beautiful in person!

I plan to make an S to go in this wreath that I made for her birthday party.

Nana painted her a stool just like she did for Lilli's room.

Well there it is!  Unlike Lilli, Scarlett's keeps her bedroom a MESS.  Food on the floor, stuffed animals everywhere, makeup in her sheets.  It pains me to go in there.  She is just "one of those kids" who loves to make messes.  So I am thankful for these pics that help me remember what it CAN look like.  I just try to keep the important things up high so she can't break them!

{Master Bathroom} before and after

Last clean room to show for a while...the master bathroom. 

We actually have TWO bathrooms - one with 2 sinks and a closet (I guess it is a dressing area) and one with the shower, tub and toilet.  I am not a fan of this set up - but we didn't have the budget to change it.  So we painted and made plans to knock down the center wall someday and make one large bathroom.  We did replace the peel and stick laminate with the same 18 inch tile we used in other parts of the house. 

Before -

After -

Here is the other room-

I bought the shower curtain at Target and bought an extra for the window cornice.  My mom made it out of foam board and stuffing.  Genius mother, inexpensive window treatments!

Speaking of my wonderful mother, she made this for me with our wedding vows

I love these collages that I made of the girls - they always make me smile when I'm taking a bath before work.  It's the little things!

I took this to show what we had to do with the crown molding...the original room had a wallpaper border that I could NOT remove.  I tried and tried but you could still see an edge. So eventually I just used wall spackle on top of the edge, sanded it down and then added a small piece of molding to the current crown.  Painted all of it to look like one piece.  Covered up what was left of the border - problem solved!

All for now!

{Master Bedroom} before and after

More rooms to share!

The previous owners worked swing shift so they covered up the bedroom windows with black tarps.  Add brown paint and dark red curtains and you have a perfect dark paradise for daytime sleeping.  But not so much for the rest of the world!

When we took those tarps off we couldn't believe how HUGE the room felt!  Our last house had a big bedroom so we have lots of furniture and a king sized bed...and this was something that some house plans didn't accommodate.  So we were excited for another big master bedroom.

Time for paint!  We tried to let the girls help when we could.  We painted the walls Benjamin Moore's Galapagos Turquoise.

Like idiots we didn't pull the carpet up before painting...so it got ruined.  But we did pull up the carpet from the other rooms in the house and it was in such good shape that I sold it on Facebook!

 Here is the bedroom today:

That leather chair is not normally there - I was just testing it out to see how I liked it.  I actually have a smaller wingback chair that my mom is going to cover for me.  It came from Jason's dad's office.

Duvet is from Pottery Barn

Curtains are from JC Penney

Jason gave me that silver frame as a gift when we first started dating.  Inside it is a picture of us on our first date in 2004.  To the left is the night we got engaged.

I took this picture to show you the two bathrooms on each side of the TV cabinet.  The door going out of the bedroom leads to the breakfast room or downstairs to the basement.

Don't you love the corner covers on the bed!?

My mom had this quilt made for us after we got engaged - that is a picture of when Jason proposed at the Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. 

 

And here is the print of our spot - he gave me this as a wedding gift

I took this at night so you could see the way the walls change color during the day.  Looks almost navy at night.

Lamps are from...you guessed it - LOWES!

I'll post the bathrooms next!

{Mudroom & Guest Bath} before and after

As I said in the post about the den, half the house was done in wood trim, wood paneling with dark peel and stick laminate "tile."  It looked completely different from what we wanted so it all got an update!

The mudroom is a place that gets used and abused.  I knew I wanted to make it brighter but I also knew it needed to be easily cleaned.  I found a new paint by Benjamin Moore called "Advance" and thought it would do the trick.  It paints over wood like an oil based paint but cleans up with soap and water.  And it wipes down easily because it has a gloss feel.  I used plain white off the shelf (although you can tint it to any color.) This is what I used on all the trim in the house.

It should be noted that my mother painted EVERY inch of this house.  Ceilings, trim, walls, etc. Over 3000 square feet.  God bless her.

Here is the mudroom when we bought the house-

We painted the cabinets with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint (just like we did our kitchen cabinets that I blogged about)  and painted all the rest with the white.

Jason made the cork boards for me - and I painted them with the same chalk paint. The rug came from Urban Outfitters and the shoe cubby came from Amazon

No fancy washer and dryer here - but these were FREE from my Aunt and Uncle and have served us well for about 10 years! 

The red door leads to the garage. If you are building a house, a mudroom should be non-negotiable!

Next to the mudroom is the guest bathroom.  It is a full bath with a hand held shower - something that comes in handy when it is time to give the golden retrievers a bath!  It looked very similar with all the wood, in fact I don't even have a before photo.  Just imagine the darkest bathroom you've ever seen. This is the only room in the house that doesn't have a window and it was covered in dark brown wall paper.

Everything in here came from TJ Maxx - rugs, shower curtain, hand towels.

This closet has an opening for the laundry chute upstairs.

The shower had a sliding glass door and I DESPISE those so I took it off and added a curtain rod. 

The sink and mirror were updated and came from previous owners

I don't know the paint color of these rooms, but they are the same.  The tile is neutral and came from a discount store in Clarksville.  I think we paid 40 cents a sq/ft for it - super cheap!  We have it in every bathroom in the house.