Makeovers (sort of)

I've been doing a few small things to the house since we bought it a little over a year ago.  It was move-in ready when we bought it, which was an incredible blessing since we had a 4 year-old, 2 year-old, and 6 week old to keep up with.  

I've been wanting to do a couple things to the house so that I could add my own little touches and add a little of me into the mix.  And slowly.  Ever so slowly things are beginning to happen.

To the kitchen, I took down the blinds on the sliding door, took off the plaid curtains, and added my own fabric to it.  

Before

 After.  The curtains were super easy to make, super HARD to hang.  Love the pattern (from Joann's) and it's reversible too!  Now for those floors....

I changed a few more things to the kitchen, but I'll save that for another post.

 To the living room, we had pretty much an empty slate, so we just jazzed it up with some artwork and plants.

Before

After

As for our 4th bedroom/office, we don't have it as a 4th bedroom or an office.  It's my sewing room!  I cannot for the life of me find a picture of how it was with our stuff in it, so here's a picture of the previous owner's stuff.  

Although the dar purple-ly color was great, it was NOT a sewing room color.  I wanted something bright and inspirational so I went with a seafoam greeny aqua color.  It was called "Almost Aqua".  I loved it on the swatch, not so much on the wall.  Too light.  I didn't even finish painting it all before I decided I'd had enough.

I went back to WalMart the next day and begged them to add more color for me.  Here's what the color is now.  Ahhh.  Much better!

I painted the trim white too, as you can see.  Kyle wasn't so sure about it but I think I convinced him in the end.

Now I need to finish it.   I haven't even finished taking the blue tape off!  I can't wait to slowly accessorize though.  It'll be fun with pops of yellow and orange??  And putting my colorful spools of thread on the wall would be cool, too.  I like thinking about it.  Maybe that'll be another post, when I finished some day.