On Going Project...

So I decided to blog about our house. It has been forever and I hardly posted picture when we moved in. My style has changed in so many ways and it is taking one step at a time, hoping one day it will look how I want. When Todd and I got married my style was very modern and our furniture and decor reflects that, now I'm very vintage inspired. I love everything old, redone, and with tons of character!! I have had so many ideas running through my head that I figured maybe just maybe if I blog about it that I will have a little more push to complete it! My first big project is the laundry room/entry room. I hate that the best and easiest way to enter our house is through our laundry room. We have a front door, but no one uses it as you can't even see in when you pull in. They remodeled the home before we bought it and this is one thing they DID NOT think through, why or why didn't they move it down into the basement with lets say the water heater is a question I will never get an answer for. A laundry room is a place that usually isn't the cleanest place in the house and I try to keep mine as clean as I can (it rarely happens but hey I try,) anyways I hate it! I think I'm done ranting about something I don't see changing in the foreseeable future, with a husband that works VERY hard and isn't too handy with anything other than a vehicle/farm equipment. Well I can't find the pictures of what is looked like before I painted it grey and with the old windows so when I do I will post those until then here is what I do have.


I recently painted it (and by recent I mean SIX month ago... Shh I have two kids ok,) anyways and I just am not a big fan of the color so have been searching and searching to find something I want to do in there to make it an appealing place. It is hard with an ENTIRE wall full of appliances. UGH! Anyways, found an awesome idea over at http://theletteredcottage.net/mdf-from-true-value-in-the-house for the walls, which should be fairly inexpensive (not as cheap as paint, but hey when I have to go through 5 different gallons of paint to find a color that works in that room it will be cheaper!!)
Anyways it will just be a bunch of mdf boards painted white and hanging horizontally... YAY!!! I also have to change the flooring your can't really see the floor in any of the above pictures, but it is a horrible pebble type floor. Whoever decided on that flooring had NO intention on cleaning it EVERY because you CAN'T... umm YUCK! I would love to put real hardwood in there, but I already don't like it trough-out the rest of the house (oh yeah and it is spendy,) so I just plan to use a stick on vinyl plank that looks like wood like they used here http://www.thehouseofsmiths.com/2011/02/master-bathroom-peel-and-stick-wood.html . I just love the look of this style and color
Those are the big projects I have planned! I eventually want to put up fun burlap window coverings, put in a neat shoe bench, and some "C's" all over the wall that's in the first picture, and cover the deep freeze somehow!! Oh ideas, ideas... I plan to document the project as I go don't be alarmed if it takes a few months, but I can't wait to get busy!! Yay!