bad words...

Grae, Molly and Ellie were playing with the Playmobil's when I heard Grae yell "shut up!"

Those words aren't allowed in our house so I called Grae to me.

"Graedon, you can't say those words in here."

"Mommy, I didn't say them, the Playmobil's did."

"Graedon, no."

"Can I say them outside?"

"No Grae."

"Can I say it when I'm a mom?"

"What?"

"I mean when I'm older?"

"Sure Grae, you can say them when you're a mom."

Then I heard fits of giggles from the other room. It's fun here.

more mudroom...

We'll put the finishing touches on the mudroom tomorrow and then I will be able to move on with my life or at least to the upstairs bathroom. I need to sew some curtains for the window and a long curtain to hide the bottom of the pantry.

Here are some pictures of what it looks like now.

This is the kids wall but only Grae posts his pictures here. The picture that is framed is by Maddie when we were doing abstract art in class. The Wanted picture is from a movie the girls are making.


Here is that same spot before (spot on the left side).


This is where we hang our long coats and is a collection of Goodwill landscape paintings I've picked up. I want to add more of course. The horse picture is painted by Ava a few years ago.




Here is that same wall before:


My really, really cheap light covers. Just $.99 baskets from Goodwill. I wanted to paint them but needed some natural texture so I'm keeping them as is.


The second basket is ugly and I want to replace it as soon as I find something better. But for now it works.


More mudroom progress pictures here...

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two things...

Finished up this cute table. For some reason I can not find a before picture but it was just all the wood color showing beneath the stencil. Boring!


I painted it a white/gray color (one of my samples I didn't like on the walls) and put a vinyl sticker on the top which I painted over. When it was mostly dry, I peeled off the sticker to reveal this. I admit I totally copied the idea from another blog but I can't remember which one. So if you know, let me know so I can give credit.

I coated it in poly and am waiting for it to dry. I bought the table to resell but I really like it so I might keep it.

We also finished putting in the floor in the new bathroom. I'm coating it with poly as well and it will be ready for the toilet Saturday. Yipee! We got the toilet free on Craigslist after buying a $220 one at Lowe's. Needless to say, we took the Lowe's toilet back.





Kind of a weird angle since I took this picture while the floor was drying and had to just point the camera and hope for the best. The floor looks darker because I had to use the flash. We used some cheap pine flooring from Lumber Liquidators ($1.20 sq/ft) and I stained it before we installed it. My goal was to make it look like it was old and worn down.

Here is what it looked like a few weeks ago.




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gray

Picking a gray paint is HARD! I have just three samples here but have added three more to the walls. Most trend lilac (which I don't want), blue (again, no) or cold. I want a warm gray that is a little muddy. I have found one that is too dark and muddy and another gray that is too crisp. I think I will have the paint store muddy up the crisp one and see.

I'm painting tomorrow so I had better decide. Sigh...

little kitchen

Brian made this for Ellie a few years ago from some scrap wood.



She loved it and I loved the natural wood finish. Fast forward 2 years and the natural wood finish is covered with dirt and pencil marks. It also sat in the hallway neglected. Since we are selling anything we can to fund the mudroom and bathroom project, it had to go.

I wanted it girly and wanted it to sell quick on Craiglist so I got out some dark pink paint I had and mixed it with some white paint I had and got a color which Molly called "molly pink."


I was going to paint the little burners but figured the new owners could think of something that would suit them.

Good news, it sold that day and we bought sinks for the new bathroom from the ReStore with the money!

almost done....

We are almost finished with the mudroom project. The only things remaining is to wire in my new chandelier, make a long curtain for the lower half of the pantry and a curtain for the window. Oh and a new faucet for the mudroom sink. That's it!

Here are some more sneaks of the mudroom.

The window is trimmed out and painted the same color as the mudroom stairs (and our bedroom). See my $.99 basket light fixture.


Here it was before.



Here is that same corner with our $7.50 chair that we will recover and move inside. But for now it works in here. Check out my new rug made from recycled plastic. It is much more vibrant in person.


Well yes I did paint the mudroom door yellow. I'm going to be painting the other side (the side in our house) yellow as well. It is Valspar Top Banana.

I'm so pleased at how it is turning out. You can find me sitting on the mudroom stairs just staring at it (freaks the kids out when they open to the door). Before I would just get in and get out quickly. Amazing what a little work can do.

green...

I have a green thumb...no literally. See!



I leaned over while holding a sample pot of paint and it coated my thumb. I am painting this with a brush because I'm too lazy to get out the spray gun (well actually too lazy to clean the spray gun when I'm done). Ironically I just bought a pack of 100 disposable gloves but didn't put them on even though they were sitting right by the paint in the garage.



This is how it started:


Hope it turns out as good as it looks in my head.