Blog Love

I've been blog-stalking like crazy.

I really need to update my blogroll because I know there are blogs I've acquired in my reader that haven't made it to my blogroll.

Here are a couple of them:

Meet My Ugly Baby

• A Vancouver couple is flipping a super-ugly apartment in an attempt to make enough money for a their first house. 

You have GOT to check it out, people.  I love some good before-and-afters!

Good Bones Home

• A Philly couple are undertaking the renovation of a home with "good bones".  Thank GOD for the good bones, because the decor is HORRENDOUS.

Country Farmhouse

• A couple have completely renovated their country house.  Now their waiting for the arrival of their boy-girl twins.

"Captain-on-top-of-it", here just found this one.  You may already have this one on your list, since she has, like, 1,800 followers.  The before-and-afters are GREAT.

Noodle's Closet

I know it doesn't look like much, people, but this is taking a while....especially the doors. 5 coats each side make it a 10 day project, minimum.

I've got the closet door all painted and it looks great, but I want to let it cure for a few more days so the paint is nice and strong before I put the hardware back on.

So, here's the before:

And the Mid-point:

Boy, it's amazing how blue that paint looks when it's near the white woodwork. I have that very same paint on the ceiling of the dining and living rooms and you can barely tell it's not white!

Yummy....

I was driving home from work tonight in stop-and-go traffic and I saw a guy picking his nose.

And?

Eating whatever it was he got out of said nasal cavity.

And in case you were wondering....he was probably in his early to mid thirties.  So, no...he wasn't a teenager.

I was hoping what I'd seen was an isolated incident, but I watched him continue for two more cycles of pick-and-eat.  **shiver**

You're welcome for that visual.

Happy Thanksgiving :)

Noodle's Closet

Yep.  Here it is:  Noodle's closet.  Pretty exciting, huh?



Yikes.  Here it is filled with her toys.

  Pretty TINY is more like it...but -believe it or not- it's bigger than the one she has in her room right now. 

This is part of the reason why she's moving into the office/playroom.  She's heading into the teen years now and she needs a bigger room (her current room is 8x10...the new one is 10x12) and a very slightly bigger closet.

This super-ugly closet "organizer" (and I use the term organizer veerrrrry loosely) was here when we moved in almost 15 years ago.

 I would LOVE.  L-O-V-E to have the interior professionally designed, but that's not in the budget right now. 

I've gone to the Easy Closets website and punched in the dimensions, but I didn't get a design........my computer just started shaking and laughing at me.  Rude.

I finally wrestled that ugly organizer out.  It left some pretty fierce holes in the walls when I got the hardware out.  Zuddy was kind enough to patch them for me. 

The trim is almost all done being painted.  It needs one more coat....which equals FIVE coats, ladies.  Five of 'em.

I don't think the inside of the closets been painted more than twice since our house was built in 1936.  We found remnants of this awesome coral color in a few spots:

Sadly, Noodle says she doesn't want coral, so we're using some of the paint we already have in our stock.



One last thing:

The windows are finished!! I can't wait to get the paint on the walls so the trim looks nice and crisp!

Noodle's Room

Because I feel it's important to have no less than 12 unfinished home improvement projects at any time, I've started making over the office/playroom into Noodles new bedroom.

 Not only are we painting the walls, but I'm kicking off the painting of ALL of the woodwork in our entire house here in her new bedroom.

The trim is Swiss Coffee by Behr, and the sashes are Seal by Martha Stewart (I think).  Noodle wants her room blue, so we're checking out some swatches:

Happy Halloween!