We were asked to do the Parade of Homes on October 5th, so we have been busy with some remodeling projects around the house. We couldn't get everything done that we wanted to before our deadline but we did do a lot.
This is our master bedroom. We weren't going to do any renovations in here but we saw the lights at home depot and decided we should replace the outdated ones above our bed. Once we got the lights up, I told Aaron about my idea for a headboard, so Aaron built the headboard out of some 1 x 12 cedar boards that the previous owners left. But I wanted to paint the bedroom before he attached the headboard to the wall, so I painted.
And then we decided to replace the lighting in our master bathroom and because we had to patch the wall, I decided to paint in there also.
I painted Griffin's room before he was born, but we added a few fun details, like the rope ball and the hooks. . .
And the branch with the birds. My friend, Colleen Bridge, made these birds for me. They took her hours and hours, and they are one of my favorite things in the whole house.
These shelves came from a table top that Jeff DeVries left us when he and his family moved from Shelby.
This is Sullivan's room. It is a terrible picture. That wall is black. I asked Sullivan what color he wanted his room and he told me black, so black it is.
Aaron made this headboard also, from a bit of tin that the previous owners also left.
The toy room/exercise room. I used some left over paint that I had on hand and just altered it to make it the colors I wanted.
We had a random pole in this room that is a support beam, so it was my inspiration for this room. My friend, Ariel Weishaar, painted the tree for me. I love it!
In our old house, we had raised garden beds and we decided not to do that at this house, so we had a bunch of 2 x 12's that were just lying around. Well, we have put them to good use. This was an old kitchen table that Jeff DeVries gave us as well. We cut the legs off, spay painted it black and then added some of the 2 x 12's to the top, sanded, stained and waxed them. You can't see the detail here but it is so gorgeous!
We used the same wood for these shelves in the living room,
the shelf in our coat closet, (we took the door off and added baskets and hooks)
the bench in our entryway off of the garage,
and the shelf below our world map in our stairway.
Aaron used some other old boards to make these pool ball holders in our basement.
We also replaced the lighting in our front room.
Added some decorations in the movie room.
These are some chairs I recovered awhile back.
We also landscaped our front yard. We drew out the plans and Morgan did almost all of the labor. This isn't a great picture but you get the idea.
I really like to repurpose old things, so here are some bicycle baskets that I bought off of a garage sale site that the girls use to keep homework and library books in.
It never felt quite right to have these beautiful, painted cabinets and the ugly, yellow, countertops that were in such bad shape, so. . .
Aaron painted them! Can you believe the difference?
We had 91+ people come through our house for the Parade of Homes. I'm glad we could help raise money for the hospital but I am also very happy that it is over. Now; time to enjoy our home!
