Project Update: Before and After Part II

Hi Friends! So here is the before and after of our Kitchen - Powder Room - Laundry Room floor makeover!

We originally had the white vinyl flooring. It was a bit dated and not really the style we're going for.

Our theme for the kitchen is a tuscan theme so we wanted to do an imitation tile, we didn't want to deal with the cleaning of a real tile floor and when we have little bambinos we don't want them to fall and hurt themselves on hard tile.

So we ended up going with a great laminate tile and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out!!

Now that the floor is down painting is coming next! We're going with a burnt red or a brick red. I'm a little nervous about it but I think it will look good.

We're also planning on going with a different color for the powder room and the laundry room. Hubby wants to do a canary yellow in the powder room but I'm not sure how I feel about that. What do you guys think?? I'd love your input!

And then for the laundry room I want to go with a green, maybe an olive green.

What do you think???

Enjoy the pics! And up next is the dining room! Happy Sunday Friends!

BEFORE

AFTER

Project Update: Before and After

Hey Everyone! So here are the before and after photos of the paint job we got done in our living room, foyer, and upstairs hallway!!! Project "Get rid of the pinks" has begun!!! ; )

BEFORE:
Please note the lack of crown molding....(and we haven't hung any pictures on the walls yet, we're getting there, slowly)

and the now the
AFTER:

Woohoo Crown molding!!!

LOVE it!! We think it looks so much better! Now we just need to decorate the walls and make it more cozy. shoo! Up next, tour of the garden! And then, the kitchen!!!!!

Happy (almost) Hump day!! : )

Hello There, I'm back! (again)

I have been really really rediculously bad at blogging lately! I'm so ashamed of myself! I've been looking at a lot of blogs though and my latest obsession is blogs that focus on decorating! Love love love them, I just can't get enough! I'm going to add a house/decorating blogs list on my sidebar very soon to show some of my favs that I've found!

But for now I want to show you some of what I did today!

Had to show you my beautiful glasses that I just unpacked two nights ago!! That would be some good citrus green tea that I'm sipping, YUM! (and just finished watching Family Man, love that movie)

And this is the extent of my Thanksgiving decorations right now! I really want to be more festive than this but I don't know if it's going to happen because I'm getting too focused on Christmas!!!!

And here are a few pics from Halloween! We decorated our house with some fun decorations that were given to us from my brother and his girlfriend as a house warming gift! :)

Hubby thought the tiki torches would give a more scary ambiance and get more kids to come our way.....we're in the end of a culdesac so we ended up getting about 25 kids, I was secretly hoping for more.....oh well!

Hubby and me attempting to get artistic and taking a pic of our skeleton's shadow and shrunken head! : )

How awesome was the full moon on Halloween!! Loved it!!!

Alright friends, that's me back! I'm going to make an effort to blog more regularly, I promise!!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!!!

I need your opinion!

Hello lovlies! Well my first week in my new job went really well and I think I'm going to end up liking it. It's a really big change from what I was doing before but like I said I think it'll be good for me in the long run!

Okay so on to the more important thing! Here are some pics of our new soon to be kitchen - mud /utility room - and half bath downstairs!!!

What I'd like your opinion on is paint colors!

As you can see from the pictures these people had a serious thing for PINK now I like pink but not enough to have almost every wall in my house pink!

Pink wall in the kithen and you can see the pink mud room and the pink bathroom in this piture too!

There's tile work under the cabinets which will stay (for now)

I love the working surface above! The laminate flooring is going to be replaced with laminate tile, it's really nice looking.

So I was thinking maybe like a brown or some kind of neutral color????

What do ya'll think?

We like the chandelier that's hanging and I was thinking that a brown would go with it, definitely more than pink.....and yes we get to keep the flat screen that hanging on the wall!!! I'll be watching Barefoot Contessa and Paula Deen all the time!! : )

Here are the pics of the utility / mud room, I was thinking if we do the kithen in some browns then I could do this little room in something fun like green or blue or something????

I'm at a total loss for what color the bathroom should be? Maybe a dark gray? Red? I don't know.

And yes even the living room has a pink wall! I'm telling you they are obsessed with PINK!

I was thinking some neutral colors in here too??

Here's the dining and look it's not pink!! I actually like the color that's in here, it's kind of a green/blue color.....

So there's a little mini tour of our soon to be home! We're closing in 4 weeks! aaaahhh!

So the immediate to do list is:

** clean out fridge

** clean out bathroom

**clean out Kitchen

Once I do that then I'll start packing up stuff that I know we won't use until after we get in the house.....

Does anyone have any good suggestions on packing and cleaning???

Hope ya'll are having a great weekend! :)