House Project #9: Gardening

This house project might never be done but there is a plan for the garden I promise! The first thing accomplished was to use the existing stepping stones that were scattered around the garden and make a washing pad for Kiwi that still looked respectable and would someday tie in with other areas of the garden. Amazingly we had enough stones already so it only took a few hours to puzzle them together and then a couple more hours to get them level. Planted among the stones (with the hope of growing between them and creating a nice ground cover) are Corsica Mint. They're supposed to have nice small purple flowers in the spring and has a strong peppermint smell when the leaves are crushed. Hopefully they will eventually fill in between the stones someday!

Kiwi giving her paw of approval

Mini-project #3

I've decided that while I like painting, I like painting items versus entire rooms. I've had this set of drawers since I was in college (I can't believe I used this as my sole dresser for 3 years!) and before that it was my grandmother's (maybe? At least it was in her storage room). I've always wanted to repaint it so I took my opportunity!

Original plain white

Fun with colors!

Mini-projects #1 & 2

Newly painted drawers for some storage in the bathroom:

Pre-painted

Painted and set up

More storage for the bathroom:

Cabinet: Thank you Home Depot!
Paint: Shout out to Martha Stewert!
Handle: Thanks Urban Ore!

House Project #3: A good ole fashioned shower raising complete!

So we now also have a fabulous sun tunnel in the shower! During the day it gives a nice amount of light...

No that's not electric light, it's all sunlight baby.

House project #4: Let there be light finito!

So our skylight finally was finished a few weeks ago and it's been so nice to have the extra light in the guest room/study. This room too is now full (though the photo won't show it).

Here is our finished skylight that opens up and everything!

House Project #5: Paintin' the town red...well a nice yellow really

So we've been quite the busy beavers in the last month but not really so busy at the blogging.
We finally finished painting our bedroom and actually it turned out quite nice considering this is the first room we've ever painted!
Also we now have moved most of our stuff upstairs and have been sleeping in our actual bedroom for a few weeks now!
So without further ado here is our Venetian Stucco bedroom!

Primed and ready to go!

Finally all finished!