New pictures

It has taken me quite a while to post these pictures for a couple reasons...one, we just finished making most of these changes at our house (see previous posts), and two, Blogger has been not-so-good about letting me post pictures. So, it is 9:45 on Thursday night, I just finished getting our guest room together, and thought I'd try posting again. It worked!

You've seen the above picture before, but it didn't have the couch in it. We moved the khaki couch to the front living room and you can see the furniture in the back living room that dad brought us. I've posted a closer up picture of that further down the post. Here is the "before" picture of the guest bedroom. It took me two weekends to strip that wallpaper border. What a pain. I will be perfectly happy if I never see another piece of wallpaper again. And here is the after. I just finished painting this room yesterday, and just took the tape off today. Obviously there is nothing up on the walls yet and no window coverings, because I took down the miniblinds so we can put something else there.

Here's the living room with the leather furniture in it. We now have a couch, a chair and an ottoman, a papasan chair, two rocking chairs, plus the furniture in the blue room. I love getting hand-me-down furniture. Maybe someday I'll feel the urge to buy furniture, but I haven't done that yet. Here is the "before" of the hideous guest bathroom. I just noticed that ivy birdhouse thing.

This is what we did on Labor Day. I think this was the most time-consuming room that we did.

Here is the finished product. I took off all the cabinets and painted them pure white. Obviously, we painted the walls the same color as our living room. We put in a new light fixture above the mirror (the one there was gold), and we will be putting in molding along the ceiling because we got paint on the ceiling. Here's our bathroom before. This one took Chad a long time. Post-wallpaper stripping. He also took off all of that blue tile that lined the wall and the shower. About this time we're thinking, uh, what have we gotten ourselves into?
Here is a picture of Chad in action. I was playing with the levels on my camera so this one looks kind of funny to me. As you can see Chad textured the walls and we painted them. I love how the color turned out. For some reason I guess I associate blue with bathrooms.

We put white trim around where the blue tile was, to match the trim that was already in the vanity area. And here's the vanity area. The top part was the same yellow and blue wallpaper and the bottom was a yellow. That's the part we painted brown. I don't like the way these pictures turned out but I really like the way the bathroom turned out. We replaced this light fixture as well. Here is the before of our room. It had a yellowish tinge to it.
And the after. I haven't done much to this room either, but I wanted to show it painted and with our new bedding. The color I picked out is just a much lighter shade of the dark brown from the bathroom, and it's called Indian Painting or something like that. It's the same color that is in the first bedroom.

And here's an upclose of our new bedding, which I matched the colors from for our bathroom.

This picture doesn't have anything to do with our house, but I just thought y'all would like to know what Chad is learning about in school. I need to go buy the bigger box of Crayons for all the many organisms he will be coloring.

I think that's about it for the home improvements. We have one last bedroom to paint and I'm thinking I may wait a few days. We are both really tired of painting, but at the same time I like it when everything is done. Enjoy the pictures.