Hall Bathroom Progress

We hung a gallery wall on one of the walls in the hallway bathroom, it really made a big difference in there! We had a few paint swatches on the walls for a few weeks, mainly different shades of green, but we couldn't decide on a color. During one of my many trips to Home Depot I picked up a paint swatch on a whim and we decided we liked it the best.

Its the bottom color, Lemon Grass by Behr in an eggshell finish.

 We love it! I like to just stand in the bathroom and look around! lol

Here is a better picture of the gallery wall. Its just a mish mash of things we already had. The only thing we added was the "L" which I bought from Joanne Fabric's and covered with twine.

Slowly but surely its coming together! We need to add quarter round to the bottom of the wainscoting, decide on a soap dispenser, install plantation shutters in the window, and then I think it'll be done! For now at least. My Dad always tells me that when you own a home you're never really done!

Our floors really need to be refinished at some point in the future, so our hallway wasn't really looking very nice. A long time ago there was a floor heater and when they removed it they replaced the boards and its totally noticeable. It looks like a big dark box and when you look into the hall your eye is immediately drawn to it. So we decided rather then buying a runner for the hallway why not paint one?!

First I taped off the area we wanted to paint and painted the whole thing white.

After the white was painted I waited for it to dry and started brainstorming how to do the chevron patterned I had visioned.

When I started I was measuring and taping, it was a huge pain! I ended up making a stencil out of cardboard and traced it on and then taped. It was still a huge pain, but an easier pain!

All taped and ready to paint!

Painting the stripes!

All finished! We love it! It really makes the hallway look so much nicer, and you can't even tell where the box is. I still need to do a few coats of polyurethane, but I'm waiting for it to dry a bit more.

Off with the fan!

I've always been pretty nervous about electrical stuff, but after talking with my Dad I was pretty confident in myself! I planned the take out the old ceiling fan and replace it with a light fixture we bought from Ikea.

Taking off the fan blades to make the removal a bit easier!

Fan down, new light going up!

Its up and its ON!



We love the new light, it casts the prettiest shadows at night.

Back yard at the bungalow!

Drippy Faucet

On our very first day at the new house before we even moved our stuff in, my Mom noticed that something was leaking. After turning the faucet on and off a bunch of times I realized it was the faucet itself. We had planned on replacing the faucet as it was pretty old and not our style, but we hadn't planned for such an upgrade on day one!

Here's the old faucet. Silver and gold? Not so pretty!

(Sorry about the dirty dishes! I'll get the hang of better before and after picture taking as this whole blog thing moves along!)

And after! Beautiful oil rubbed bronze!

Moving day!

 Moving day went much quicker and smoother then I thought it would! We were very lucky to have a lot of family volunteer to help us!

It's pretty crazy that just about everything we own all fit into our living/dinning room area!

Cash's playroom! Not a very safe looking playroom on moving day!

Our bedroom got a face lift the day before we moved in, though it took me a few weeks to finally finish it all! The color is Martha Stewart's Plumage color matched to Behr. Its very different from anything we've ever done before, but we love it.

Cash enjoyed moving day! He adjusted to the move just fine. He liked just walking around and looking at things for the first few days. One of his favorite things was listening to himself walk on the wood floors. We have a crawlspace so it makes more noise then our old house did. That's a good thing though! I love all the creaks that our old wood floors make, it makes me smile.

Bungalow Before

Here are some pictures of the house the day we got the keys!