My Kitchen: A Pink Wall

Guys. Remember this pink wall from my ridiculous pictures/confession yesterday?  Well,we painted our kitchen wall pink!

I got carried away (?) and decided that we are going to re-do the dining room, and painted a wall in there pink too! (That's where I took the pictures.) Anyway, "re-do" means I'm painting the ceiling white and the walls gray. Yes. I can't wait. 

Some House Happenings

I haven't mentioned our house lately. Nathanael just finished putting a door in the doorway between the mudroom and the kitchen. Remember this door from waaaay back that I just had to have? It was a a local scrap yard. 

Well, here it is! In our house. Sorry for all the super low quality pictures. 

I plan on putting either a chalkboard or a decorative piece of metal grate on top of some wood. It won't happen today, but it WILL happen. I also plan to clean it. :) 

We also switched stoves with Nathanael's sister, Ruth. HUGE blessing and thanks! That tiny wood stove wasn't cutting it, but now we stay super warm. Nathanael discovered that it is really a coal burning stove, so we want to buy some coal just to test it out.

I started painting our dining room table (finally) and it will hopefully be finished on Saturday. Be on the look out!

Oh, and have a happy, safe, responsible New Year's Eve! ;)

Lately I've Been Trippin'

The past couple weeks we've been tripping with my family. We stopped in Utah (where I got to celebrate my birthday!) on our way to California for Reece's graduation from Marine Corps boot camp. We had a lot of fun seeing friends and family who were able to make time to see us. and we are so proud of our Marine!

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Here are a few pics from our short stop at Mission Beach.

Anyway, before we left, we painted our kitchen and dining room floors. Yes! We did! I looooooove them!

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We used a porch and floor polyurethane tint-able oil-based paint by Glidden.  So awesome! Because the polyurethane is already in the paint, your paint doesn't yellow! I might have to re-do Caeden's room because his turquoise floor (we used a latex paint) got a yellow tint as soon as I put a poly coat on it. Boo!

I also chalked my fridge! With colored chalkboard paint! I had some leftover from a project and was all, hey! Paint the fridge!

It's currently the only Christmas "decoration" we have up right now...we haven't had time to put up a Christmas tree yet! Stay tuned for more kitchen awesome-ness happening soon!

A Little More Color

One more painted ceiling down!

 This color is by far my favorite. Check it:

Before:

After:

Woop!

"True Turquoise."

I am so loving it.

At the suggestions of my little sister and sister-in-law, I am going to paint all of the ceilings in a color of the rainbow. Don't worry, some will still be white.

I decided to paint the entry way ceiling a green, and the craft room ceiling a light lavender.  Then our house will be a rainbow for real!

Also, my awesome brother-in-law came and helped My Honeypie do this:

OMGOSH!

We have kitchen cabinets!

I know this isn't typically how a piece like this is used...I'm pretty sure they are used on top of another set of cabinets, but it works this way for us. Plus, our kitchen is going to kind of be a mess of different cabinets as we piece the kitchen together. No matter! I'm painting them all anyway. Of course.

Paint all the things!!!

I'll Take You to the Candy Shop

Sheetrock upstairs: hung! and ready for mudding and taping. 

I have no pictures for it, but I will. 

Also, Kitchen: sheetrock; hung! ready for mudding and taping. I LOVE IT!! It looks soo good! My husband is amazing. 

I have decided I want my kitchen to look like a candy shop. Yes. I do. and it will. You can see all of my inspirations for it here: http://pinterest.com/alishagal/kitchen-dining-room/

Wooo!

Skeletor.

I just want to post some "before" and "middle" pictures. We aren't to the "after" yet, but hey. We've got pictures of the skeleton! Considering it has been just a little over three months since we bought the house I think we're doing pretty good. *Pat self on back* yay!

Heads up: This is a super long post, mostly filled with pictures. Enjoy!

The Living Room:

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The Other Living Room:

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The Bathroom:

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We also extended the bathroom by about a foot so the tub won't be crammed into the wall like it is in the "before" picture.

The Dining Room:

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We knocked out the wall dividing the kitchen and dining room to make it one big room. (see second picture below!)

The Kitchen:

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We extended the ceiling and it feels so open!

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[caption id="attachment_479" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="now-same pic as above, I know, but just so we all have a visual."][/caption]

Mudroom:

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We will be putting the wall back to recreate the 4th bedroom, but the door will go through the kitchen/dining area instead of through the mudroom. We had to take out the "before" wall to rip up all the rotting particle board. (ew.) Now we just have to sheet over this floor so we can eventually tile.

Bedroom 1:

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Yes, My Honeypie is trying to blend in with the wall. We ripped out the closet and we will build built-in bunk beds where the closet used to be. Don't worry people, we are putting in a closet again, just somewhere else. Stand by.

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Let me explain what this is. That thing in the middle of the room is the second bathroom we are adding in. To the left is where we will replace the closet we took out. I don't have a picture of the whole room (durh), but it is still a very decent sized room. yay!

Bedroom 2:

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Our bathroom! I am so very excited for this. Very.

Bedroom 3:

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We are moving right along!