But by saying, New Year, New House - I mean we will be doing plenty to this house to make it look like a new house.
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. It was a quick one and was over in a flash wasn't it? Here's some of our holiday fun - from Thanksgiving to Christmas:
We definitely did not do much work on our house - hence I haven't updated the blog in about 5 or 6 weeks? But we are back at it. Tom was jumping at the bit last weekend to build something! I politely asked him to hold off... so we just organized some of our stuff and dumped 2/3rds in the trash or donated! Felt good. I have this odd feeling to do it to EVERY room in the house.
Less is more. Couldn't be feeling that any stronger right now.
On that thought, if we do ever get another house, I have a feeling it will be smaller. Yes! Less cleaning, less stuff, less gas/electric bills, less taxes... my oh my!
About the only thing I can think of that I haven't shared yet that we've done is we hung the shades in the living room! Thanks to your help in response from this blog post, I was able to pick an AWESOME shade. Here it is:
Mickey and Tom worked on them for a couple of hours (note the samples and sample paint we are trying on the fireplace bricks). We have 8 windows to cover in the living room. Holy smokes that's a lot of windows!
So the little white gap at the top will be covered with the London shade my friend is making. I can't wait! Unfortunately, she is in Colombia right now.
Also, here are some other pictures I never shared.
Mary Alice working on the guest bath mirror! (Upcycled! My friend, Mariangee, was getting rid of it so its a steal!)
We spent what seemed like a whole Saturday trying to hang blinds. Wowzers, it was too complicated for what it was!
Also, a while ago I posted about salvaging light fixtures... I have some bad news... they wouldn't work. We needed fixtures that have a switch on them since the wires were not connected with a switch on the wall. WHAT. A. PAIN. That we went through all that work. I swear, sometimes it seems like this house is out to get us or something.... phew.
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| Tom discovering that the wires are not connected to a switch! |
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| Work in progress... |
And this was my 'loot' I wont from that HGTV contest... not bad eh?
Oiy! And one more share! We made some of our own curtains! Its actually pretty simple if you are ever interested. Sewing, that is. Just fold the fabric and run it through the machine! So easy, Tom can do it! :)
BAHAHAHA :)
Happiest of new years to you!
Much love,
Heather
