Doorknobs!

Here I am apologizing to my few readers for the delay in posts, when I know you all understand that the holidays were extremely busy. Hopefully in this new year we can hop into some extreme DIY projects! The first of the year? Doorknobs!

These Doorknobs to be exact.

We purchased them at Lowe's and Hubby installed them today. I believe it's a good start. Tomorrow? Cabinet's!!! Well... hopefully. And a bathtub purchase?

Shopping

We decided to check out Lowe's on Sunday as we hadn't found some of the items we still needed anywhere else. We ended up buying 2 of these sinks, which were just like the ones in one of our inspiration photo.

We also finally found a chandelier for the dining area that we agreed on! The shades are a little more yellow tinted than shown in the picture, so we also picked out a nice warm buttery shade of paint for the kitchen walls.

That's it for now folks, I still am in the middle of holiday details. We are doing our Christmas celebration with my family on Friday. And I'm busy being sick. My husband should be off of this job by the end of the week and we can get back to some house remodeling! I can't wait to paint the kitchen and put those cabinet's in!!!

Central Air!!!!

Oh yes... we have forced air. Sniff... I'm so proud and excited! I've never not huddled in front of a window unit all summer long sweating. Who honestly takes pictures of their temp control units? Me... that's who. I went to look at my cabinets and was suprised to see vents when I walked in the door. The heating was finished today! And the unit is all white and glows green in the dark... I'm in love :)



Sorry about the mist, it's extremely foggy in Vancouver. This thing is massive! It takes up half of my sidewalk by my garden!


Eeeee!


Look at my beautiful return vent!


Then I saw my garage... all of my cabinetry has arrived! Our garage is completely filled with supplies at this point and you can hardly move!

It was really dusty in there, but here is the front of a cabinet!

Drywall

Just some pics to tie you over until we start working again. My hubby has been working which is a huge blessing. Unfortunately it'll be over tomorrow. But we'll go back to work on the house! The cabinet's arrived today. I'm going over there to check them out later tonight when I have a car available! Here's my two wonderful handymen hard at work. I am so grateful to have them in my life and home!

My Brother in law Matt

My wonderful Husband Dan

Love you boys!

Happy Holidays everybody!

Ceiling and Doors

Do you want to see what my hubby did today? Do ya? He's a good hubby.
Remember when we ripped out the old soffett boxes and the ceiling in the kitchen looked like this? Ugly isn't it?


Look at it now!!!! Wohoo! We are ready to sand and paint and hang cabinets! I definately can't wait to slap some primer on that ugly old green paint so I can stop staring at it. Or maybe I'll leave a little behind the cabinet's for the next person who remodels to stare at.


While my hubby and brother in law were working on that Tim, our contractor and his guys were installing our brand new doors. Remember this bad boy?


Check it out now!!!

And the old garage door?

The two front doors now match!
Outside.

And inside! The window is so fresh and pretty, not like the old bubble tinted window that used to be there. I'm still debating about whether to paint the outside of the front doors black to match the lighting fixture. What do you think? Leave me a comment!

And apparently the neighbors decided we needed a housewarming gift. Because when the guys got there this morning we had a huge pile of trash and furniture on our front lawn! Including this.

Which aside from the slightly green poo colored pleather, is in gorgeous condition! So Lysol, here we come. We have a new rocking chair!

IKEA!!!

While the boys are hanging drywall in my kitchen, us girls decided to take a trip to IKEA! So we loaded up the baby girls and headed out to do some imaginary shopping. Because we're both broke. But I got some great ideas of things I'd love to put in my new house and beg for for Christmas!

This vase was beautiful and had no pricetag, but I am sooooooooo in love. LOVE!
IKEA PS JONSBERG
Vase
$39.99


Thinking about these mirrors for the bathroom, but have to take a cabinet door in to see if it matches.
Hemnew Mirror
$49.99


These lights are flat glass with a light behind. I'm not sure why, but I'm intrigued and wish I could find some way of working one into my house. I just can't see how though.
GYLLEN
Wall lamp
$59.99


Thinking of this chandelier for the dining room, but need hubby's take on it first.
MOLNIG
Chandelier
$39.99


This was a super cheap rug we saw, and I'm not entirely sure about the quality, but it's a maybe. KARBY
Rug, flatwoven
$17.99


I am in LOVE with this little table and chairs. I am dreaming of my daugther with a big hat on having a tea party with her teddy bear at this pretty green table. Mom if you are reading.... THIS is what she wants for christmas :P
MINNEN
Children's table
$29.99


We are planning on making a headboard bench seat for the entry way. But if we didn't do that. I LOVE this shoe holder and coat hooks. Basically everything in this set I would love to see in my entryway!
HEMNES
Shoe cabinet with 4 comparment
$99.99


This sofa is way out of my price range. But I could so see myself curled up on it with a book in front of that huge window in the living room.
EKTORP
Left-hand chaise
$379.00



This headboard is regularly $79 and was marked down to $39. I wouldn't use it for a headboard, but it would make a gorgeous fireplace screen, or you could make it into a tealight holder on the wall. Hmmm... my hubby the sheet metal worker could make fine work of this!
MANGER
Wall-mounted headboard
$79.99 on sale for $39.00


I have a picture from a magazine of a craft space where they hung hooks from a bar and had cups like these filled with pens and scissors. And I LOVE them!
ASKER
Container
$5.99


I think these would be great for our under cabinet storage.
GRUNDTAL
Countertop lighting, halogen
$34.99


I love these curtains, I just wish the dots were red instead of orange.
I couldn't find a price on these. They had no tag.


I don't really like these colors, but thought a shelf like this would be great in the nursery with stuffed animals perched precariously off the edges!
LACK
Wall shelf
$29.99

Fun Times

We've been super busy the last week, and at times it feels like nothing is getting accomplished at all. However, we've got a lot of small things done. The kitchen is completely rewired, all of the bedrooms have new lighting fixtures, I redid all of the edges of the paint in the hallway and nursery. And I finally painted our bedroom!

I think we've also agreed somewhat on a color for the office. Dan is ready to hang new drywall in the kitchen and then it'll be ready for a coat of paint and to hang the new cabinets that will be here on the 18th. SO excited about those! We also have our new refrigerator chilling in the garage with the rest of the appliances.

We invited some friends over to see the place and they will be giving some of our fruit trees a new home. They were planted way to close together and I just can't keep them. And she pointed out this giant nest in our backyard tree!

We saw a bird the size of a jay popping in and out of it. I was shocked it's super cold here now!

Oh, and we got our first snow storm driving home from Dan's grandma's tonight. It was beautiful. Sadly, by the time we got home it was all gone. Tomorrow the plumbers assured us they are coming back to clean up their mess!