The Dining Room

Hey everybody I was home for a few days and took some current pictures of a few of the rooms and decided that it was finally time to do a room by room progress update :) Mind you that we are still working on the house and not a single room is done yet but here are some updates. First we will start with the Dining room. 

Here is a semi Before picture before our wedding. We still don't have a table yet and you can see into the kitchen slightly where the cabinets are still dirty white and the old dishwasher is still there.

This next picture you can see we got our dining table and you can also see into the kitchen slightly. Darker cabinet color new dishwasher and still the old southwest style light.

Here is the current picture of our Dining room new light fixture is up and a bit of decor. Still have a few things to work on here but for the most part this room is done. All we have left is the crazy task of taking out all of the tile and replacing it with hardwood. That will be a fun day when we get to it. We will have to take everything out of the house for that project, its going to be one dusty and hard job! I feel that it will be worth it though. Also in this current picture you can see on the left we also finally got some outlet covers! Yay!

Other Projects... Also in progress..

Steph had many many projects that she wanted to start and some finish while she was home. Like replace the mirror in the china cabinet that we bought on discount because of the broken mirror.

Here is the china cabinet with its old mirror out and the back panel off... She ended up finishing this project but still hasn't taken the final picture yet :)

Or replace the ceiling fan in the master bedroom..

and try to figure out a photo display above the master bed.. Still trying to figure out what black and white photos will be going in these frames or if thats going to be the final configuration.

Here is a nice little list of all her projects:

1. China cabinet.. Done (need final picture)

2. Replace master bedroom ceiling fan.. Done

3. Picture display over bed.. Semi Done

4. Repaint the living room wall.. Done (need picture)

5. Accessorized dining room.. Done (need picture)

6. Turned the guest bedroom into a gym... Done (need picture)

7. Reorganize living room with new stuff... Done (need picture)

As you can see from the list above Steph was super busy while we were home. Unfortunately she didn't take any pictures. We are hoping that when we get back home we will remember to take all those pictures. We still have a long way to go on the house but we keep moving closer and closer to "finishing" all our projects.

Furniture Projects.... in progress....

Steph had a lot of projects she wanted to get done while we were home this last trip. One of those "projects" included painting our existing dressers black to match our black slay bed. She wanted to make our furniture look like they belonged together instead of just a few random pieces. She didn't want to spend money on new dressers when the ones we had were in really good shape. It didn't make much sense to give away good furniture when the only problem was that they didn't match. To Home Depot we went for $20 worth of primer, paint, rollers and gloves. We went home and Steph started immediately on her new project within no time the 2 dressers looked completely different. She primed and painted the frame of both dressers first and then slowly worked on the draws. Toward the end of the project however, she ran out of steam. She still has 2 draws on both dressers to finish but that will have to wait until we get home again. We both were impressed with how they turned out even with the 4 unfinished draws they look fantastic and have really changed the look of the room.

Here is the large dresser before she painted it.

Primed...

First coat of black paint...

Here is the semi-final product, as you can see Steph still has 2 draws left to paint and in this picture she still has not put the cabinet door on or the hardware. She is having a

hard time finding knobs and draw pulls that she likes so that might take a while for her to complete the dresser. It looks great and will look fantastic once its finished.

Here is the other dresser that she painted. She forgot to take a before picture but here are the pictures from when she was painting.

Primed..

First coat of paint....

Almost done still need to paint those last 2 draws and touch up but it looks great so far!