I am still alive and kicking

Sorry for the delay of posts :( This wedding planning got a little crazy!!! Anyway, I am back and promise to be better.

Since I have been away, I have been continuing to working on the dining room and I must say it's getting there.


We also removed the ugly wallpaper in the kitchen. Once I finish painting I will post pictures of the after.


I am painting it a nice light green shade. We will see how it turns out (anything will be better than what's up there).

Let there be light.

Two months ago we purchased this light for the dining room from Lowes. When I bought the light, the guy told me that we would have it the first week in April. "Sounds good" I said and walked out the store. The first week of April came and went and I never heard a word from Lowes. So last Wednesday I called them to see where our light was. The guy does his thing on the computer and says "Oh it won't be here till the 14th of May."

"WHAT!!!!! When was anyone going to tell me this." He says that someone called me on March 28th to tell me and it says that I approved it. I don't know who Lowes called but it wasn't me. Anyway, to make a long story short the Lowes guy was very helpful and called the manufacture and it should be here on the 30th of April. Now we just have to hire an electrician to install it. Here is what it should look like when it's all done. It will be so nice to finally have a light in that room.

Welcome Spring

I am so happy that spring is finally here!!!! I better hurry up and finish the dining room before I am not going to want to stay inside anymore. When we first moved in the dining room was nothing to speak of. Ugly felt wallpaper on the top and a blinding blue on the lower half of the walls. The carpet smelled of animals and had stains all over it. I did tried to clean the rug with a rug cleaner that we rented from Big Lots. However, I apparently can't read directions and emptied a whole bucket of solution in one corner of the room which resulted in a moldy rug. So the next day...the rug was gone.The furniture in these pictures are the owners before us. I took these pictures when we were doing the house inspection.
Here is the room after the rug was gone. Looks better already. We are going to eventually place hardwood down in this room.

So first thing I got started on was tearing down the ugly wallpaper. NOT FUN!!!! Took me awhile but I got it done. I then primed and painted the walls. A nice grey on the top and white on the bottom. I am going to do a faux wainscoting on the lower half. I also painted the bookshelves a nice crisp white. Much better than what was there.


I started to paint the back of the bookshelves silver but after seeing it up there, decided against it. One of my tasks this weekend is to paint over the silver and paint another coat of white on both the shelves and french doors.

Here are the doors getting ready for some paint.

Here they are in their current state along with the pear tree branches I cut down and spray painted silver. I need to get something to place them in. Hopefully, I can get a bunch done this weekend.