New Carpet

So after living here for 2 and a half years, we finally got our new carpet!!

Here is the before of our Master:

Here is the after:

Close up of before:

Close up after:

It makes the house look so much brighter :)

New Curtains!

Travis bought me a sewing machine for christmas last year that I hadn't quite taken out of the box. We needed some curtains in our kitchen to block any peeping toms that may live behind us, so I thought there was no time like the present!

This is the window before:

And this is the window with the curtains I sewed out of ones we used to have in our first apartment:

Not bad for my first sewing project in over 10 years!

our new half bath!

So after living in our house for 2 and a half years, we decided to finally completely finish one of the many rooms in our house. We made it easy on ourselves and started with the smallest room first - the half bathroom downstairs.

This is what the bathroom looked like when we bought the house:





We are not really sure what she was thinking with the color.





Now this is what we did to update and complete the very first room in the house:







Bernadette gave us this picture as an engagement present, it works perfectly!





The "newly" repurposed bathroom vanity!



So that is it! Next room up is the master bathroom (only a year in the making)!