House Updates

Ok, is it just me or is this the longest week ever??

 

The weather here in New England sure has been strange this week! Monday was 80 degrees and sunny, Tuesday was rainy with crazy wind and 60 degrees. Yesterday, we woke up to SNOW on the ground, and the temp was 34. Oy vey.

 

I used to joke that little miss would make her appearance and there would still be snow ... doesn't really seem so far fetched now!

 

Here are a few house projects we've been working on over the last couple of weeks. We've both been in full blown nesting mode, trying to get these things wrapped up while we still have the free time!

 

The first thing we wanted was to make a few small changes to the exterior appearance of our house. I love that we have a cute, yellow, Cape Cod style house. It's very "New England". But since I've always wanted a house with a bright red door, we decided to tackle that.

 

Painting our front and side doors cost us a whopping $15 for the can of paint!

 

Paint color is "Licorice Stick" by Behr

Then we ordered new shutters for the front of the house, since wineberry and licorice stick don't go so well together :)

 

We had a gorgeous, sunny, spring day on Saturday so Keith spent the morning putting the new shutters up. They cost us roughly $90 with shipping and I'm so glad we bought them. I think they really transform the look of the whole house.

With no shutters

The first one is up!

The finished look!

I also ordered new numbers from Etsy that should be here this week. Then once the weather warms up for good, I'll add some pretty flowers!

 

Eventually we want to re-do the steps, but that's a project for a later date!

 

Before and After

Inside the house ... we finally found a purpose for our fourth bedroom. Our house has two bedrooms up, and two down. One down used to be my dressing room, and is now our den. The front bedroom was a random collection of furniture and crap.

 

Now it's officially our guest room/play room and I LOVE it!

 

And this was after removing/selling half of the "random crap" we had in here!

New rug was purchased at Target for $65 and the curtain panels also came from Target for $38 total.

 

The futon was ours from the condo I just added the anchor pillows from elsewhere in the house to jazz it up :)

 

I have wall décor to put up later this week to complete the transformation. This room holds our pack'n'play and will be a place for her to hang out on the rug and play with her toys. I'm so happy that this room serves an actual purpose now!

Now if only she would get here! ......