Let there be light (and paint)

Only 3 years after I thought it would happen, we have a new light for our dining room!

The radiator covers are stained, but still are stinky from the polyurethane, so they will remain airing out in the garage for awhile more.

The dining room was completely repainted, as was the living room. All our halls are the same sand color as the top of the dining room walls.

Now we just have to hang everything back up! ugh

Over the Kitchen Sink

We finally put something up over the sink in our kitchen. In what is probably the only thing I would change if redoing the kitchen, the window's (which is the only thing remaining from the original kitchen) scale is off to the raised ceilings making it an awkward spot. I think these Target items fill the space ok and are kitchen friendly. Better than the $375 versions I saw in a catalog, that is for sure.

Painters are coming Monday!

New Ceilings..

They look so much better. Even though we lost about 1/2" of ceiling height, the consensus is the rooms look bigger.

As you can see, we need some new paint in the dining room - ripping off and replacing the molding doesn't do good things to walls, it seems.

A mess is coming!

Well finally, after 3 years the ugly, barely hanging on (really according to Steve!), fan is gone. We are having our dining room and living room ceilings re-plastered on Thursday. There has been a damaged spot (see below) in the dining room since we moved in and we finally got around to dealing with that too.



Of course that means we need the ceilings painted, which means we might as well do 80% of the rest of the house too while the painters are here;/ The living room walls, front hall walls, stairwell walls and upstairs walls/trim are all going to be repainted along with the 2 ceilings! Stay tuned for an exciting new living room color (hopefully we will like it!).

The new dining room light I have picked out (the room will be light-less for awhile since we haven't ordered it yet...

Dots

I finally got around to painting the dots on the our "accent" wall (to use an HGTV term). They are far from perfect up close, but I do really like how it came out! It took far less time than I thought it would, too. The trim of the bed skirt and the quilt have the same color polka dots, which is where the idea came from.

(If you are confused by the perspective, I am standing next to the glider when taking this photo - the crib is to the right of the door you see.)

We still need some more wall art, then again we need more wall art in almost all our rooms. I would also like a new lamp - I find the one in there a tad too bright, and short for the space.

We acquired an extra camera for our video monitor - it is pretty cool. We can now switch the channels to see each kid's room. Given how loud Jack is, we rarely need his anymore, but it is nice to check up on him now and again. We also find it useful to be able to see if he is standing and whining in his crib, or still lying down and whining.

Really looking like a room now..

Coming together...

After a foible with our new crib mattress (thanks Magic Beans for amazing customer service!), baby #2 now has a lovely place to sleep. Of course for a variety of reasons he most likely will sleep in our room in a pack n play bassinet at night for a few months. I am pleased to have this ready to go and organized though!

The crib came in even nicer than I had expected - the wood & finish are of such high quality.