As Promised...After Pics

Finally...Here are some of the 'after' photos of the livingroom. Some pics the room still looks a bit green...some tan. I still think in person it looks very much the color of the first picture.

I broke down and bought the pillow from Wal-Mart...I like it sooo much, and for $12 I couldn't pass it up...now I just spend all day telling kids not to touch it with their grubby little hands. :)

While I was there, I also decided to try out some black canvas curtains to see how they looked, and I think they are a great addition to the room. $15 for two 84 x 118 panels. Not bad. I did have to send the husband back for another set though...2 were just not long enough for the window, so we needed four. This caused a bit of a problem because I wasn't able to just pull them to the side like our other curtains were before. So I decided to do this:

Don't mind the random toys, sippy cups and books on the floor....Other than those things, I think it turned out looking very classy. I bought a $3.99 roll of fabricy ribbon at Hobby Lobby, 50% off, and used that to tie the curtains together. It's Toile if you can't tell. Probably should have gotten a closer picture. Oh Well.

Also, C & N got new beds....Lord help me.

Yes, my child is sucking his toe in that picture..not sure what that's all about. :) Thanks to my friend Mandy for letting me know about a girl selling these babies on Craigslist! They are perfect! And she was only asking $150 for them! We paid an extra $50 for the mattresses...which I was a bit weird about buying used mattresses from someone, but come to find out they had only been slept on a few times. The beds were bought for the ladies step-daughters who moved way with their mom shortly after they were purchased and now this lady and her husband are also moving away and didn't want to have to bring these with. They were a steal! And the boys love them!

I had originally wanted to keep the beds unbunked...didn't think the boys were ready for bunks..but of course the room is way too small to fit both beds apart, so we had to bunk them up. That required a little bit of rearranging....God forbid one of them can't see the TV in the room....and also required the removal of the blades of the ceiling fan. :) Didn't want to even chance that!

C was a bit nervous I think to sleep on top...kept getting down after we put them to bed, but finally fell asleep and that was that. I'm just nervous for the first time he wakes up in the middle of the night and forgets he's up high. :( Hopefully that doesn't happen!

Home Improvements

I hope to have some pics up tonight to show you, but we have been busy doing some 'minor' home improvements the past two weeks. Mostly involving paint!

Let me tell ya, a new paint color on the walls makes a world of difference.

We decided to paint our upstairs this color:

Sherwin Williams - Avenue Tan.

but don't let the word "TAN" fool you...After it was all said and done I had a bit of a panic attack because the color looked a whole lot less tan and a whole lot more like this:

Sherwin Williams - Downing Stone

GREEN! :( But I should have known...the small swatch I painted on our bedroom wall did look a bit too green to me, and I should have went with my gut and looked for something that looked more tan, but I didn't...I decided to go with the flow. And I instantly hated it once the entire upstairs living area was done but I think that mostly had to do with the fact that it didn't seem to go as well with our couch and curtain colors as I had hoped.

Our upstairs formerly was yellow...and so I had alot of red and yellow in the room...pillows on the olive colored couches..red curtains with yellow and olive colored flowers..

Here's a few pictures I could find that show the before color of the walls...I have the photos back up on the wall too..so I will show those as well with the new wall color ASAP!





Here's a pic that sorta shows the couch color with the pillows...don't mind my goofy looking kids in the pic!

Here's the curtains we currently have:

Not the best picture, but they looked GREAT with the yellow walls...but now that the walls are 'green', I'm not so sure.

So here's what I'm thinking...and let me know what your thoughts are as well:

- Live with the 'green' wall color (its actually starting to grow on me)

- Stick with the 'green' couch/chair (don't really have a choice there)

- Keep the red throw pillows

- Replace the yellow patterned throw pillow with these:

Saw these pillows at Wal-Mart and I'm in love with them! We have the B&W picture wall right behind the couch just like in the picture above...I think these will go well in the room because of all the black/white accents. What do you think?

I could probably get maybe a good week or two out of them before they have chocolate or kool-aid stains on them...but I think they are worth it!

Now what to do with the curtains. I still really like them...just don't know how well they go now. Should I try to find some solid red ones? Or black?

I'll try and get the new room pictures uploaded tonight and then you can see the room as is and then help me decide! I don't have the B&W pillows yet, but I'm thinking they would be a good addition!

Oh yeah! We also bought the bed set I blogged about here! LOVE IT!!!!! It actually looks half way decent with ugly green carpet too! I'll post some pics of that as well! The bedroom is next on the list for a new paint job. Here is the color we picked for that!

Sherwin Williams - Sticks & Stones

I think that room is going to look super sharp when all is said and done! I'm so excited about it!