Sher's Mom's Room Makeover

I'm posting this a little late but promised I'd share it.

We found out in November that Sher's mom would finally be 

able to come to the US..all the paperwork was done..

but her room wasn't! LOL..

It was our "junk room" so miraculously with the help of my super talented sister Delilah 

and her crazy storage organization skills I was able

to get the room emptied out,

THANKS DELI!! Could not have don't that without you!!

So after that adventure we were left with the shell of the room we

called the "enchilada room" because of the (ugly)orange color it was painted.

Sher was so anxious to get started that he ripped out the chair rail and 

carpet before I could get pics!

(we had like 2.5 weeks to get it all done-including making the flooring!)

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We then wired for a chandelier, gave the room a fresh coat of paint and decided to do the trim 

treatment we used in Sophie's room.

I don't have any pictures of the flooring install because I was entertaining Sophie during all of that!

Here are some photos of her finished room with walnut floors

and some curtains I sewed up. I added some artwork I painted a couple years ago,

some side tables and lamps.

...and voila -done in time! 

~ well almost, hehe...

...her mattresses arrived the day after she came in and

 I finished the curtains a few days after that..hehe

It was really important to us to have a nice room for her to come to,

so she could feel at home, comfortable and welcome.

I'm so thankful we finished on time!!

(Thanks God!)

We will be building her a bed eventually, it's on "the list," lol.

Next we will be working on a coffee table and dining table, then flooring for the 

living room and hall areas....slowly the beautiful wood floors are spreading

throughout the house.

Now that Christmas has passed though I'm constantly dreaming of the patio and backyard

 and everything I'd like to do there...*sigh* it's on the list. :0)

Now just because I am so in love with this little one, here are a few pics of

Sophie ( my little baldy), she will already be 4 months old in 9 days! ..Time flies..

I hope everyone is having a beautiful new year!

God bless you all, and thanks for dropping by!

The bones of the nursery

Sorry it has taken soo LONG to share these pictures!

This is what the room that would become the nursery looked like before 

it got it's face lift.

We inherited these yucky, stained blinds when we bought the house.

I think the previous owner sat and smoked all day long and didn't know how to 

open their windows or something!

We are getting rid of all of them, and have applied plenty coats of Kilz paint on our walls, lol.

( the closet wall )

( plain ceiling )

( more ceiling lol )

The first thing I did was paint some clouds for Sophie (and me) on the ceiling!

I used a soft grey-blue for the base so they didn't really stand out against 

the blue green color that we had on the wall.

Up next was adding all the wainscoting, window trimming, fresh, 

crisp white semi gloss paint, and crown moulding:

Looking brighter already!!

After that -and why things take so long- came the hardwood flooring.

Which we make ourselves. We love it but it adds to the time it takes 

in finishing everything. We do save cash though, lol!!

Here we are with freshly painted walls ( "beige glow" from kilz) ,

a new rug from Overstock -which I LOVE- 

and beautiful walnut floors.

The clouds really stand out nicely now that the walls are lighter and calmer.

Next we hung a chandelier that I already had, 

 then I made some curtains. I decided to remove the closet doors and hang curtains in that doorway also. 

The closet is going to be  housing  the computer soon.

To hang the curtains we used my brilliant idea of using metal conduit

instead of over-paying for rods!

excuse the bad pics, we need a new camera.

So there you have it! This is what Sophie's room is looking like now.

We have also  finished the cradle, her dresser,  the hot air balloon lights, and made a frame for the "ballooning 

over Paris" print- so I will share all that with you soon!