courtney rebecca

In August, we painted Jason's office and finally got it complete. We searched for quite a while for the exact right color of green that we wanted, and we found it called Sherwood! Perfect, right? In case you don't remember, every room in our house (except one random bathroom) was painted the same awful creamy dingy yellow color. And the trim was all off white as well. Gross. We had all the main areas and the ceilings painted before we moved in, but we are slowly painting the bedrooms ourselves. Here's a before shot of the office. Basically all we had in here was a bunch of boxes, a tiny IKEA desk, and our old couch. This picture is when we had just started to move everything around to get ready to paint. Yuck, big mess. So here's everything we ended up changing in this room: Painted the walls Sherwood green Painted the trim Decorator's White Hung curtain rods  and curtains (that we already had from Pier 1) Hung Jason's LOTR swords on the wall H...

A few weeks ago, we finally painted our bedroom! We still have a ways to go in here, but it looks SO much better. If you don't remember, every single room in our house was painted the same dingy shade of cream/yellow. Gross. We had the main spaces and all the ceilings painted before we moved in, but we still have all the other rooms to do. We decided to do our bedroom first, since we spend the most time in there. Right before we started painting. Gross yellow. After painting! Bonus cute Kingsley on the bed. I used the flash in this picture. I wish I had more to show off, but we kinda took the room apart even more. We moved the headboard out because it wasn't attached to the bed (the bedframe broke in the move) and it was annoying. We plan to get a king size bed, and we have more art to add. We did put up a picture above the left side of the bed to try to even out that window. They aren't centered and there's no where else to put the bed.  We did get...

Oh once again, I've been a very bad blogger. But I promise I've had a great excuse! Jason and I bought our first house! It was quite an ordeal to have it all work out, but we couldn't be happier that it did. Our amazing realtor Kari had a lot to do with making it all work! We first saw the house on February 2 on a Saturday afternoon. We had started looking a couple of weeks earlier, but we hadn't seen anything that we loved. We had narrowed down a list of what were must-haves in our house and what would be nice-to-haves. When we first looked at pictures of our house, all we saw were arches. Arches in the middle of the living area. Yuck. We almost didn't even come see the house, but we hadn't even seen Kari in a couple of weeks since there was NOTHING on the market, so we decided we would go look, just so we could see her and get to see another house. The front of the house. My car out front, and that's Kari's in the driveway. Wish it was a new c...