house projects

People have been asking me to post pictures of some of the things that we have been doing to the house since we moved. Here are just a couple of things that have been keeping me busy...

Here is a picture of our family room. We got new couches, pillows, curtains, entertainment center, and TV. Nick was really excited about the TV. It was the one thing that he really wanted in the move. I don't know why he wanted it so much because he never watches TV! I was also really excited about the area rug that we found. It really matches our tile and you can't tell form the picture, but the little cream flowers in the rug have little blue centers. I think it really helps to tie the room together.
Here is a picture of our piano. The bench was covered with a cross stitch and I left it on way longer than I should have. My dad helped me staple a new one on that matched my decor.

Here is a picture of the curtains that my mom helped me with in our formal living room. I included a close up the curtain fabric because in the far away picture you can't see it very well. I was also able to find an area rug and pillows to match. It has been a slow process, but it is coming along.

Here is a picture of one of the sets of curtains in the master bedroom that my mother in law helped me with. We have five windows in our bedroom, so it was a pretty good sized project. The gold part of the curtains were already there, but the previous owner had hot glued some blue fabric to the bottom of the curtains. I was shocked that she had hot glued them because she didn't realize that she had to leave the window treatments with the house and she threw a crying fit about leaving them. I let her have the ones that I wasn't planning on using, but who would cry over leaving curtains that had been hot glued together?

The first week we moved in, my sister and I painted the toy room green. It was the exact color of our old family room in our last house. You can't see the color very well from the picture, but I have always really liked it. We got book shelves for all the kids toys and put our old TV up their for the kids to watch movies.

Now I have been busy getting the kids rooms finished. We finally got everything out of the "sorting" room and I painted it and we moved the kids into that room. Now I have to paint the bedroom that they had been sleeping in and that is going to be Sydney's room. I will post pictures when I am done.