Since we moved last June, Cody and I have done a lot of little (some a little big) projects around here to spruce things up or simply make a space functional again. I'll admit that at times I didn't think some of the things would get completely done before we moved again in August, but I think we have just about everything done that was planned on at this point, i.e., the things we could afford to do *lol*
I think that I posted a few pictures from "before" when we started working on our bedroom, but here's a refresher...
A mess is what it was : P We ripped out the carpet, washed the walls, took down the old blinds, as well as both of the sinks in the bathroom--the shower was already ripped apart when Cody had started working on it for his parents a few years ago after he remodeled the guest bathroom. One shower was good enough for now, that gets expensive quick in an old house.
I know I know....right now you are wishing you had awesome 70's black and gold tile in your bathroom ; )
We decided on a NYC theme for our room. I'm in love with that city and had tons of pictures to decorate with from my trips out there. After we picked out colors I went to town putting together a collage like this one I came across on Pinterest....long before we moved too!
Next came the pictures and floors.....and the floors didn't get done for what felt like FOREVER. Not on purpose, just two busy college students, and I certainly couldn't do it by myself : P
This was the template I made to know where I wanted each of the frames. I bought a big roll of butcher paper on Amazon (it's come in handy for wedding planning too!) and traced the outside of all of my frames and just used painters tape to hold them up so it would be easy to move them around.
These pictures are put on canvas with photo mount spray that I got at Michael's--gotta take advantage of those 40% coupons! The canvas I got a JoAnn Fabrics, they have a 2 pack of 12x12 with a "bonus" gallery 12x12 (thicker sides) canvas...the added bonus was that it was on sale for $8! I painted the sides with black craft paint to go with the room. The frames below I scored at Goodwill--3 packs of plain wood IKEA frames for $.50 each, and there were 6 of them so I couldn't resist snagging them all : P
YAY! NO MORE SUBFLOOR! ; )
Oh but we aren't done....
The living room--Cody calls it the family room and what I call the front room the living room....it gets confusing : ) --was the other project we got done, and I'm pretty much in love with how it turned out.
Cody's sister and her boyfriend did most of the carpet ripping in this room while they were staying here, we just cleaned up what was left and got rid of this weird jaunt in the floor that curved the tile around to meet the width of the sliding door....hard to visualize, you kind sort of see it in the sunlight on the floor in the bottom picture.
First, I swear it is a coincidence that the color I chose for the accent wall and the main color for our wedding are pretty much the same....I just like what I like okay? : )
BAM! Color, floors down and lights!
It didn't take us too long to get this room done...we were itching to have a place to stretch out and watch some TV.
Despite the time and effort it takes, I really enjoyed working on these projects with Cody. It's nice to know I'm marrying someone that can fix and take on pretty much any home improvement project and take the time to do it correctly AND nicely!
Hope you've enjoyed seeing what we've done--we are certainly proud of the results : )
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