Curtains Make the World Go Round

Well not really, but I do love them. In the name of the simplicity that is/are curtains, this is going to be world's quickest and most simple before and after.The basement curtains BEFORE (with a bonus Walter shot):

The basement curtains AFTER: I don't think I will ever understand what those tiny little curtains were doing up there before, but these new ones/that used to reside in our living room in the old house, seem to brighten up the place. Things I want to change eventually-- that coffee table and that rug. Oye. So many patterns happening there.

The Massive "Before" Pictures/House Tour Post

I already am going to have to apologize for the length of this post, but I just got all of the pictures that Sam and Avery (the adorable blonde babe in these pics) took the day we bought our house. First up, the outside: Plans for the outdoors?

• Paint the front door and the shutters to match eachother
• Update the windows that have condensation/possibly do this with the re-side the house project
• Re-side the house
• Seal concrete cracks: DONE
• Seal all the wood cracks that we reasonably can while we save up for a retile project: STILL IN PROGRESS
• Do something with the flower beds below the master bedroom window and my office window
• Fix the flashing on the roof

Next Up: the living room, dining and kitchen upstairs in that order. Can we just focus on how much brown was in this house two weeks ago!? And HOW AWFUL the tile and countertops were in the kitchen!?

Plans for the living, dining and kitchen?

• Paint the entire upstairs: DONE! We finished painting the kitchen on Seahawks Day (aka the 2014 superbowl)
• Refinish the countertops with Rustoleum product: DONE!
• Remove the tile (that part DONE) and install new backsplash.
• Paint the kitchen cabinets: DONE!
• Swap out that awful kitchen box light: light ordered, awaiting it's arrival
• Paint the ceiling in the kitchen
• Install crown molding throughout the entire upstairs
• Get an interim couch (DONE: from Cost Plus), a big rug (DONE: from Wayfair), refinish thrift store dresser as TV stand (DONE), 2 accent chairs, a coffee table and side tables (DONE: craigslist find!), and figure out rest of furniture placement in living and dining room. Living room progress pictures as of April 2014.
• Get a dining table and chairs (DONE! MAJOR Craiglist steal!).

Next up: Upstairs bedrooms. There are three: my office, the master, the gym. My office has the wainscotting, the master has the super long glass closet mirrors with Avery inside the closet, and the gym was the darkest poo brown you've ever seen.

Plans for the bedrooms:

• Paint them all: DONE!
• Organize, organize, organize: organizing furniture placement, furniture colors, figuring out drapes for each room, getting ELFA updates to the already existing container store closet systems.
• Get new dresser for master: DONE! Thrift store find... post coming soon.
• Build headboard for master bed
• New master bed bedding
• Get T's office dressing bar up: DONE!

Upstairs bath... lots of blue happening here. Also a shot of the super sweet taped up "wallpaper" in the hall closet outside the bathroom:

Plans for bathroom?

• UGH! I am at a loss here. A part of me wants to gut it but a part of me loves that blue tile
• Definitely get rid of the tile in the shower surround (thinking white subway tile)
• Paint the walls (the weird yellow is not working for me)
• Fix the small leak: DONE! It cost $50 for the part from Amazon and $169 for the plumber.
• WHO KNOWS!!!!

And now... the basement! We start with the door off the kitchen that leads to the basement stairs. To your right would be the guest bedroom (with the curtains up already and me making wierd faces with Avery) and then LB's office. Then the bathroom. And out to the living room and the second kitchen. This is also where the laundry is!

Plans for the basement:

• Furnish it for now: Pretty much DONE (I am over the coffee table and rug that are in there)
• Hang pictures
• Organize kitchen
• Update the laundry room to make better us of the space including new washer and dryer eventually.
• Hang better curtains: DONE
• Gut the bathroom down here: it is clearly build with drywall and not cement board... gut it and actually tile or use a fully enclosed, pre-fab'd shower stall.
• Vent the bathroom vents (down and upstairs) to the outside