Home Improvements

These 3 pictures show alll we have been doing to get the "Punky Brewster" room back to normal. (yes, this was the room that was turquise, lime, pink, etc.)Only one wall left to go. It took 2 coats of primer and a third of the "chocolate froth" latex to get it looking good! Momma Goo spent the day with me to get this room organized! Did we do a good job or WHAT!? Momma Goo and Mark also made those fabulous built in shelves in the closet there on a separate occasion and I LOVE them! I'm almost ready to set up my crafts! Very exciting!





Here is our sleigh bed that we bought and then had trouble getting home. Mark saved the day when he rented a truck and hauled it home! Doesn't it look nice!?

Our pets/plants

As far as pets go, we did have a fish named Dude but unfortunately Dude passed away about a month ago and we haven't decided whether to replace him yet...we shall see. Mark still has his dog Max at his parents home so that he can spend his days with their other dog Carrie. So we try to visit Max a lot and spoil him with treats whenever we see him :)

We have three plants: Larry, Curly and Mo...they are a fun hobby so we will introduce you to them:

Larry is a little bonsai that Mark rescued from Walmart where they were NOT taking care of him. They let him grow pretty tall so he isn't formed like he is supposed to be but we like him anyway. He really likes his special light we give him and he only needs water a couple times a week.














I have had Curly a long time...he was a gift to me and it is another one that is easy to take care of (I sense a theme-I kill plants easily!). Curly keeps Larry company next to the sun lamp.





















Mo is our newest member that I brought home this week. I found him at the Bookstore and thought he would be a fun project. Mo starts out "bald" and slowly grows hair so I am going to try to track his progress on here just for the heck of it!



This is Mo's first sign of hair! (Week 1)

The inside of the house

These pictures are not that great but they give you an idea. This first picture is the dining area connected to the kitchen (to the right of the kitchen). That back door also connects out to the back porch. Originally it was this gross peachy color that we thought was too cold and New Mexico-ish. So that will disappear in later pictures.


Next we have the picture of the kitchen. We really like all of the cabinet and counter space. One of Mark's first projects was fixing some of the cabinet doors because they opened in all different directions with no rhyme or reason...weird. To the left of the stove is where the fridge is and there is another hallway entrance there as well. Also notice home the kitchen suddenly moved from the peachy color to yellow...interesting choice...which will also disappear.


Ok,

The third picture is our living room before we had ANYTHING in it! We have the nice big window that opens up to the front porch. This will look very different in upcoming pictures as it actually starts to look like a living room!




This is the main hallway that leads to all three bedrooms, the bathroom and laundry area.







This is Mark's computer room and the guest bedroom now. I need to take some updated pictures of everything so I can show you what it looks like now!





This is my exercise/computer/craft room. As you can see, someone had a lot of fun painting the walls and it was not ME! The girl that had this room before had just finished college but apparently liked "Hello Kiddy" and some seriously bright walls. The fan, curtains and closet door knobs all had the "Hello Kiddy" theme. Yikes! So, we refer to this room as the "happy room" and I can not WAIT until I get a chance to paint it!


We really liked this hall bathroom because it is nice and deep. The only big thing we want to change here is the color of the walls since we think the yellow is too pee-ish.

This is the master bedroom and bath (with a shower not shown)! We are going to paint the bedroom area a lighter tan color to open the room up a bit and then add some hand rails and then paint the bottom half of the wall a red color. Very excited about that! I love my red! Some day, we would like to have a walk out screened in porch area connected to the back wall!

I need to find a picture of the garage and one of the other side of the yard but until then, here is the little tour of our house!

Here are a couple views of our home. It is a one level/rancher on an acre of land. The neighbors have now cleared out most of the trees to the left of the storage shed so it looks a bit different and we are trying to figure out what to put there so it doesn't look so bare. We have a double garage (like Mark wanted) and a nice big storage shed as well so we can store lots of my boxes and junk until I have time to clean out!