Getting Closer

Peruvian house war paint...

Yes that is paint on his eye. He didn't know it was there and went grocery shopping like this.

Big paint reveal coming soon!

Craig and his list

I've been browsing Craigslist a lot lately. You can find a lot of super nice stuff. Our kitchen table and couches were found there. There is also a lot of yuck.

Like this for $250. "grey cloth with white accents, and black and gold trim" The upholstery on the back looks likes those giant pads the hospital gives you after you have a baby.

Three dimensional leopard mirror. $300. Nuff said.

Or this bedroom set for $450...yeah you paid 2 G's for it....in 1986. OH SNAP!

There should be a list of rules for craigslist

1. If it was chewed, marked on, peed on, burnt, wet, stinky, stained: list it in the freebie section or take it to the dump.
2. Vintage does not means your stuff is worth a lot of money. Sometimes old crap is just old crap.
3. It doesn't matter of you paid eleventy billion dollars for your nasty couch. Don't overprice your stuff.

Ideas....

Number two thousand eight hundred and eleven on the list of things I want to do: Art for the spare room AKA Nanny's Room.

Check out what Cassity over at remodelholic did



Scrabble Art

 Nanny (my mom) loves scrabble. Now I just need to enter buttloads of giveaways so I can win a Silhouette.

Floors

Well it was a long day but we have floors in the playroom! Excuse the poor quality picture it was taken at 10pm with no flash.

Now we just need to install new baseboards, paint the chair rail and crown molding and its decorating time! Here's a reminder of what it looked like after we closed and then after we pulled off the wallpaper and ripped out the carpet:

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I love the inspiration I get from other blogs. The tutorials. The before and afters. Sometimes people do things that you didn't even know were possible like this:

Addicted to decorating painted her brass shower and fixtures! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT!!!!

Also. must. have. chandelier. in. bathroom.

I'm loving fancy designer wallpapers but I like my wall covering cheap and easy (is it juvenile that when I typed that I was thinking "like your mom!") Wallpaper is a major commitment. I am STILL peeling wallpaper from our house (forest green with gold griffins, I don't remember that ever being in style) and at $90-150/roll its not budget friendly.

Then I discovered wall stencils. I know what you're thinking.



http://www.stencilease.com

although I don't know why they would want me tocredit them for that fugliness

But baby times are a changin. Check out the gorgeousness you can do now!

http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/

I'm going to use this flower in the girls room...stay tuned for more details!