The banister downstairs!

I have always loved my MIL's( Mother-in-love)stairwell. It has a black main banister and white spindles. I thought this would be perfect to dress up the downstairs.So yet again off to home depot we went. By the way.while we were there I found it quite humerous that the "Manly" store home depot was playing the Mama Mia soundtrack!
Anyway we chose:
Black Suede ( For the main banister) and Vermont Cream ( For the spindles)

Here are some initial pictures of the project!

Beginning of the downstairs re-do!

Well I know you all have seen pictures of the downstairs dungeon! Uh that room makes me cringe, but hopefully not for much longer!

First we started by picking the paint color Cobblestone by Ralph Lauren. It looks more gray here but it does have some beige undertones


Ah the back wall I know! I told you the downstairs is scary!




We had to remove the nasty carpet on the stairs! And whoever installed this carpet definitely was not ever planning on it being removed. Needless to say it was a beast to get off of the stairs! That is what Rob is working on in theses pictures.



How Rob feels about the carpet on the steps!

We are so lucky to have friends ( Thank you Johnson's!) that allowed us to borrow their ladder so we could get the stairwell complete!


I promise I did help and didn't just take pictures the whole time!

New additions to the Living Room!

Well the living room is still a work in progress, but we are getting there! So a couple of weeks ago we got to put up curtains. It always amazes me how much curtains can transform a room!

Before:


Excuse the blurriness in the next picture, but I thought Macy looked cute watching Rob.




After:


Other additions to the Living Room:
Some pillows that I have been working on and finished right before Christmas!


And finally my mom found this at Kirklands and new it would be perfect for over our sofa! Rob and I both love it!

Better Late Than Never!

I think I say this a lot.But here is what the house looked like for Christmas!






I think I say this a lot.But here is what the house looked like for Christmas!

Electricity goes crazy!

So I yet again apologize for the lack of blogging lately. Hopefully tomorrow when I get off work I will take pictures of our Christmas decorations and put them up. Needless to say I have been busy working at my real job and stuyding for finals. Last week happened to be a very interesting week at the house. It all started on Saturday night when I noticed the internet connnection had gone out. No big deal I will just call Charter sometime next week and get them to come and look at it. Well I had a final on Wednesday so I waited till tuesday to call Charter and then had them come out on Friday. I didn't want to have to deal with them messing up my study time. Wednesday night I had gone out with some friends and when I got home Rob stated that all of the lights had been flickering in the house. So he turned all the lights out except for the room he was in. I stated that it was really windy outside so maybe that had something to do with it. Well the next morning, I went to start the dryer and all the house dimmed when I attempted to start it. Big clue that this wasn't good. Charter arrived and stated that my cable internet cord looked burned. Like electrically burned. Not good! Then he went outside and he said sparks were coming out of there connection outside. Yet again not good! Sparks don't come out of cable internet.The supervisor for Charter came out and looked at it and said that he would turn off all the power in the house because some how I had lost my ground wire connection. Basically, saying my house was one big electrical charge. At the time I happened to be alone at the house. And of course freaked out! To make a long story short Alabama power ended up coming out and fixing everything our ground wire was completely broken. Everything is fixed now and working better than it had been. Oh the joy of owning a house! But it is totally worth it. Hopefully, I will get a new camera for Christmas so I will be able to post more pictures!

Update on plumbing.....

Well the good news is - the sink can be used! The bad news there is definitely more plumbing to be fixed. We have really old pipes so if we don't replace a certain section we risk flooding the basement. No good! So the plumber will be coming back out to fix that section and hopefully everything will be fixed.

Plumbing 101

Well the good news.... the part my mom and I fixed. NOT THE PROBLEM! Good job girls! Bad News there is a leak in the stack that so happenly is covered up by a wall, but at least it is behind the dishwasher. So the plumber is coming back out today to build us "bigger and badder" under the sink and in the wall plumbing. (In his own words). When he was messing around under the sink, all the old plumbing just fell off the sink. Needless to say the 1970's plumbing had to go! So by tonight hopefully I will have a functioning kitchen sink! YAY!!!