This Crazy Life of Ours

Parlor to Nursery

When we were house hunting, it had to have at least 5 bedrooms and a space for M to have "man space".

I needed bedrooms for all of my kids.

Here we got a 5 bedroom house with a parlor right off the master bedroom.

In our old house, we got blessed to have a master bedroom with a sitting room right off of it which we used as nursery. With our youngest still being under 1, I wanted her close by.

All the other bedrooms were upstairs.

Enter the Parlor.

Right off the living and master bedroom

No Closet

Non-Working Coal Burning Fireplace

This room was actually our storage | box holding | furniture holding

room for like the first month LOL - we had just moved in and so the baby stayed in our room.

Until she wouldn't go to sleep anymore.

As you can see - this room had a coal burning fireplace.

It didn't work and was already falling apart.

M and C loved being manly and demoing it.

Then they shiplapped over it.

I attempted to paint it white but it didn't work.

This room will be painted Behr Tower Bridge

probably January 2019 lol

This weekend I finally spent time in here and got her room

all arranged and things on the wall!

Her room is ultimately Facebook Marketplace

Things off Marketplace:

Crib (chalk painted celery) $30

Dresser (chalk painted ballet slipper) $60

Rug - Gifted from sweet lady on FB

Armoire - Free from a friend

Recliner - Traded a pair of end tables

End Table - $5

Bookshelf - Free from my sister

Rocking horse & rocking chair from my Poppy

Artwork - hand drawn by M 😍

Modern Farmhouse Living Room

We have a large family.

For those of you who read the first post on this blog, you know I went from a mother of 1 to a mother of 3 and then 4 - it's a circus and these are definitely my monkeys.

We needed a big house. We needed a larger living room.

Here - you'll see the living room we used to pile up in.

It was a beautiful dreamy cozy living room.

With a 14 yr old boy, two 11 year old girls,

and a 11 month old baby girl - we needed more space all around.

Enter current living room.

The walls had caulk in them and were a beautiful 12' tall.

I love the raw shiplap but all this white caulk was bleh.

We sold the Gothic Revival UFO light fixture - I'm still shopping for the replacement - and we painted two of the four walls.

After hunting for the perfect rug, we are about 75% complete with this room.

We will be adding shelves on the entire TV wall and then I have to hang LOTS of things up!

You'll see my mantle - it was a rescue from the parlor (up next!)

I don't have a fireplace but a girl can't live in a house without a mantle...

hello - Christmas decorations!

Items in Room:

Rug - Facebook Marketplace $40

Couches - Rooms to Go (matching recliner)

Brown Chair - Free off Marketplace

TV Stand - old desk $25 garage sale

Heart of the Home

We moved in June 8, 2018

Texas in June = 108 degrees

This house had NO AC!!

M is in the business, so he had strings he could pull.

The first weekend we had AC in the downstairs and two weeks later, we had AC upstairs.

July our electric bill was $397 - HAHA nope

First on my project list was the black kitchen.

I found photos from before it was black - it wasn't any better lol

This is how we bought it. If it wasn't so even, you'd have thought the kitchen had caught fire.

No appliances. Black flooring. "Tuxedo" cabinets done poorly.

FYI - Facebook Marketplace can be your best friend.

Dishwasher & Stove $400

Fridge $750

Even with 3..yes 3 light fixtures - two ceiling fans (4 out of 8 bulbs work 😑) and a boob light

The room was too dark - besides...a black heart?

I follow a lot of farmhouse pages on Facebook and had fallen in LOVE with Behr Venus Teal.

While I was at Lowes, I saw the swatch for Tower Bridge and decided to get samples of both.

Figured I'd show M and see what he though - sometimes he gets a vote 😂

Behr Tower Bridge

Walls Painted | New Dishwasher

Cabinets Not Touched Yet lol

Cabinets that ugly cannot stick around for too long...

Fridge & Stove!

90% Complete with Phase 1

Phase 2 Inspiration at the bottom 😍

The door fell and the glass shattered.

We will be removing this door and retrofitting

a chalkboard in the space!

Free Facebook Marketplace Chairs

Phase 2

Some day...when I'm rolling in the big money, I will gut this kitchen!

My plan is to remove all cabinets.

This wall will house the stove in the middle with floating/open shelving on each side.

We will hopefully have pretty dishes by then LOL

I'll do a base cabinet on each side to house pots and pans.

We will run the vent-a-hood through the wall and out through the laundry room exterior wall

We will do a middle island with sink/dishwasher and barstools

A bit like this

The wall where the stove and fridge are now will just be open and simple.

We are discussing putting the fridge inside the pantry

I'll put a small coffee bar along the far wall.

Hope you like our kitchen and our plans :)

More to come!! So much more!!

The "New" 1910 Craftsman Cottage

Last time I wrote, I teased you with this photo...well here we are 4.5 months later and this house...well it's fun and daunting and fun and overwhelming but it's ours and we've been working slowly on it.

I'll give you the grand tour and then we'll start telling you about the small work we've done so far!

1910 Craftsman Cottage

3,542sf | 5 Bedrooms | 2.5 Bathrooms

Parlor | Butler's Pantry | Sun Porch

No HVAC | No Appliances

All of the photos you're about to see are what we saw when we walked through the house...M said it's the ugliest damn thing he'd ever seen. I was all star-eyed. My dad lived in a 1912 house and I LOVED it. I grew up to learn the appreciation of architecture and it was my dream to some day own one of these lovelies...well thank goodness M loves me to the end of the earth. I drive him insane and this house and the never-ending honey do list does as well but he knows when we're done (HAHA) - she will be the Belle of the Ball!

Welcome to our home -

Living Room | ~14.5' x 20.5'

3 Pocket Doors | Gothic Revival UFO Chandelier