House Projects

So we have been doing some major projects on our house and I have had some requests to post pictures so here it goes...

The most recent and biggest project we have probably ever done...our kids had these crazily gigantic closets behind their bedrooms that were a total waste of space. We have wanted to do something with them since we bought the house. We found some attic space behind those (this is all space over our garage) and after throwing around a bunch of different ideas decided to make make the two closets and attic space into a big bonus room, to be used as a bedroom for now. We also had to build normal size closets in the kids rooms. I don't know if that makes any sense but it turned out amazing. We had someone drywall and mud/tape but besides that Steve did all of the work (and it was ALOT!!) and I did all of the painting once it was built-my specialty! I don't think we have ever been so glad to have a project done-living in the mess was making me CRAZY and our poor kids were sleeping in random places in the house while we stayed up all night many times working in their rooms.

Here is one of the closets before: (that square in the wall opens up to the attic space behind the closet).

Some 'during' pictures...I should have taken more later on, but this is when Steve started tearing down walls:

The finished product...it was hard to take a good picture of the room so these don't really even do it justice but it turned out so cute and is really big. We moved Emery in there and the baby will have her room. Steve did even put in that window-it was a little scary when he cut a hole in the roof to install it!

Also if you can see the molding on the wall next to the dresser, there is a little door on each side of the room that we can take off and there is a bunch of storage space in there.

To get to the new room you have to go through either one of the already existing bedrooms, hence the 2 doors!





The door on the right in this picture is the closet we added to Davis' room and the extension of his room for that.
This fall while Steve was working crazy hours I worked on re-doing our bedroom. I couldn't find a before picture, but here are some pictures of it now. The biggest project of course was hand stenciling the back wall. I LOVE how it turned out and it was worth the time to do it. I made the quilt and most of the pillows and painted the mirror (free from a neighbors yard sale) and the lamps (cheap from goodwill:). I am still on the hunt for the perfect (really cheap that I can re-do) bedside tables but have yet to find them!





Now I just have to finish the baby's room. I am currently drowning in fabric in my craft room and sewing every spare minute I can find! Hopefully I can get it done before she decides to show up!