Well, I missed my second post yesterday because, believe it or not, we were working on another project... our play room. I love when Lance wants to do home improvement projects because then I can't get blamed for the money we spend. That's not to say we won't argue about it... but in my heart I know I'm right. (Besides the fact I AM always right). In any case, it's coming along. We just bought two small storage cabinets and a t.v. Nothing too exciting and not even close to my master plan for that room. But it's an improvement. The biggest project is finding some place to put everything. I need to get rid of some toys, too... which can't be done until the boys are all at school.
Today's post is not really all that exciting. I haven't done much with these rooms, but I figured since it is home improvement week, and they have been improved at some point, I would share them anyway. First is our dining room. I love formal dining rooms and we use ours a lot (meaning every time I cook which isn't necessarily a lot, but you get the idea). When we built our house, we had all of the downstairs walkways and the kitchen tiled and the living room, study and dining room carpeted. Unfortunately, our dog (refer to last post about cutting poo from his rear end) had a habit of peeing in the dining room so we needed to replace the carpet. The logical solution was to put in ceramic tile but matching it to our other tile was a bit of a challenge. We decided to buy this marble trim tile which ties the two rooms together perfectly. If I had my choice, we would take out all of the white tile in the house and have it match the darker, but that is way down the road. Anyway, we set the tile on a diamond pattern inside of the border and a square outside. It looks beautiful. We loved it so much, we did our living room, as well. (I'll share those pictures tomorrow). We also had the room painted a darker shade, when we painted the rest of our house. The only thing I would like to do with this room is buy darker furniture. Other than that, I love it!
The next set of pictures are from my scrapbook room. Lance gets mad at me when I call it that and declares that it is a study (which is more true now than it used to be since I don't scrapbook much anymore). The photos don't really do justice to the room because there is so much to see. It is the only cluttered area in the house because I have tons of projects I have made for Paper Crafts and other magazines and I hate to hide them all away. I also have a lot of neat swap projects and handmade cards that I have received from my awesome Classic Scrapper friends, which are probably my favorite things. The only real "improvement" to this room in the last year is my Imac. If you are ever on the fence about getting a new computer, I highly recommend Macs. They are so simple and awesome and I love the large screen. A few years ago, Lance put in the wood floors which made a huge difference. But this room desperately needs furniture. It was a fight between the study and game room. Obviously the game room won, but I do have big plans for this room, one day.
Well, I guess it's time to get Jared to school so I can finish cleaning up and the DirecTV vans just pulled up. No major plans for the weekend... just a lot of t.v. catching up. I have a few projects to work on around the house and I am hoping to scrapbook a little. The boys have a 3 day weekend and Lance is working (of course). I'll post some more pictures tomorrow. Until then... have a great weekend!