Going Blue

The living room has gone blue. Presidential blue really. It's a fantastic room that will be the focus of family laughter and memories to come. It is also the room you enter into through the front door. This room is full of character already.

Snazzy New Chairs

So if possible -- Imagine the leopard fabric (above) on the style of chair below.
Hubby and I acquire two of these fabulously exotic creations from my cousin, who recently purchased a wine and spirits shop. They used to sit in the front of the store. We pulled up our Jeep during the Gallery Hop and carried those bad boys out of there.


So what to do? Do we leave them the leopard? Do we recover them? I stopped by Joann's to check out fabric. These are some of the patterns that caught my eye.

Happy Mother's Day

As a gift to hubby's Mom we stayed up till 3 am and finished painting, finished the trim, finished the closets, hung the blinds, hung the drapes and put the vintage golden velvet rocker and the Tiffany style lamp in the room.

It was a happy and beautifully designed Mother's Day.

Attack.

I thought this photo of the hubby pretending to attack his Mom was too hilarious.

Workin' on the Master Bedroom

We're quite lucky to have so much help.
It's like they love us or something...weird.

Nan came over to help paint and clean and build and sort and move....

Chris came over to help us cut things and lift things and drink things.

Remember that closet that was there on the left? It looked just like that one there on the right. We tore right through that son of a gun and connected it with the laundry room. It will eventually be a hallway to the master bath.

Cap City Marathon

I'm so proud of my husband.

He's been training to run his first half-marathon.

He ran in the Capital City Half Marathon.

It was a wonderful break from demo and remodeling.

It was rainy, but so wonderful.

Congrats handsome.

52 Get's Gussied Up

We bought 52 some special gifts.

This one is for hubby's dad. It is a cast iron buck head door knocker. We fell in love with this item when we saw a similar one in Country Living magazine.



We also picked up some floating house numbers (brushed nickel) in this slick modern font. We got these pretty babies at the local Menard's for $5.00 a pop. Nice and cheap when you only have two numbers to worry about!