Boys Room Before and After

So about a little over a year ago we moved into our house.  I wanted to go thru room by room and redo them or slap some paint up on the walls.  I started with my older son's room first, sorry no pictures.  Life went on and my middle son, kept asking "mommy when are you going to do my room" I kept saying your's is next.......well now a year later and his finally got finished! YAY!! O, keep in mind I did not pick out the paint! Big mistake letting your 4 yr old pick out paint!

Before

I started with a blank slate

yay, for white walls

After

Check out the dresser, now look at the next picture

new dresser

Walls were painted using Behr Ultra Premium Eggshell paint. Color is Disney Alien Green and Laser Beam.  I added the wainscotting so the green wouldn't be so......well......green!  It helped.  I painted the green stripe all the way around the room to break up the yellow a bit. I redid the dresser and you can read about it here. Added his name and some nic nac's, sports stuff and of course you can't forget his transformer curtains and blanket!  I'll add some shelves for books and stuff, but I really wanted to get this done for him since he'd been asking for awhile now.  If you all could see his face when I did the big reveal.....he was out of town with brother and daddy for the weekend.......his face was priceless!
****Candie****

Before and After Dresser Redo

I inherited this dresser from my husband's grandmother. We actually had it as our dresser in our previous house before I bought my fab- 9 drawer dresser from Costco! So off to storage it went, till the yard sale.  At that point, I decided I was going to just redo the dresser for my middle son's new room.  So for a year now since we moved it's been sitting in the garage. Again, naughty mommy!

Before:

Barf! Right!?!?!

Well here is the after:

So here's the low down.  I removed the ugly wood pull knobs (if you call it that) I sanded the dresser enough to scuff it up.  Added a coat of Behr interior primer and sealer (purple can). I then used the same green paint (Disney Alien Green) I used on the walls to basically outline the dresser.  Used Rustoleaum Painter's Touch gloss white for the remainder of the dresser.

Knobs I found at Hobby Lobby for 50% off! YAY!!!

Lined the inside of the drawer with shelf liner contact paper. You can't really tell, but the contact paper is lime green, yellow and white.  Matches everything perfectly!

Anyway, it took me about a week to do, and my son was super excited to get it up in his room.  Stay tuned for the before and after of his room.  Just a few more finishing touches and I will post!
****Candie****

The Gray's Garden

This year we planted a little early, APRIL, but my business tends to pick up in the spring so we jumped at the chance when we had a free weekend. As I have said before my garden last year was a total disaster. My Husband and oldest son cannot be trusted unless supervised. Our garden is on the side of our home so we are a little limited in space. This year we planted carrots, red and white onions, jalapenos, tomatoes, garlic, broccoli, cucumber, strawberries, and blackberries. I want to freeze tomato sauce and make freezer jam with the berries. We'll see. Here are the before pics:

Doesn't look like much I know. Here are the afters:

 

I already have blackberries!

I would have more strawberries, but my boys keep sneaking in and eating them. :)

~Lindsay

Step 1

About two years ago my husband and I purchased almost 6acres of land to eventually one day build a home on it. We want our children to have those life experiences of growing up on a piece of land riding 4 wheelers, raising chickens and just having some room to run. Our property is on a hill and has an incredible view of the columbia river. It is basically a giant flat rectangle. Check out the view:

So, it is basically a raw piece of land. No water, power, nothing. We need to complete a few steps before we can start to build.  On Saturday we completed step 1. A road. There was already a small primitive road that ran down the length of our property, but it was really rough and beat up. The road is shared between 4 pieces of property and it just needed to be able to accommodate everybody and the big rigs to get in and out thru the building process and it needed to pass code for the firetrucks to be able to turn around. Here is the piece of equipment my brother-in-law used to make the road. My son thought it was great to ride in. It  was hard to get him out:

Here is the front of the property from the already existing road before:

Here is after:

Looks like the size of a freeway!! So much nicer to drive on now. I think we should be graveling it soon. I'll keep you posted through out the whole process.  Step 1 done only 3 million to go.

~Lindsay

Master Bath Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation

So I tried out the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation kit in Espresso, and I love it!! It was very time consuming but there was no sanding whatsoever!! You apply the liquid de-glosser, color, glaze & top/finish coat, couldn't ask for anything easier...the hardest part is waiting the alotted dry time, haha!! Take a look for yourself, what do you think? Still undecided about hardwarde, any thoughts?

Unfortunately the lighting wasn't the greatest, ugh!!sorry about the glare. I can't get a straight on shot because there isn't enough room between the cabinets and the wall behind, such is life.

~Renee~ 

Old House Master Bathroom Before and After

Hello all!  This post is from my old house before we moved, and way before this blog was started.  So bare with me on the before pictures.
We decided we wanted to update our old bathroom to something a little more......well....us!  The whole drop in sink with chrome and brass faucet was just not doing it for me anymore, after 5 yrs!  Wow, can't believe it took that long to get to it.  Anyway, when I finally told convinced the husband that this needed to be done, this sink was starting to gross me out....well.....need I say more...

Before:

Removed from the left side of the sink

Notice the hole on the left side...no cabinet. Also my father the carpenter that he is built the new door and fake drawer fronts.  Old one used to look like the ugly long cabinet.

Another close up look at the hole with no cabinet, and the ugly drop-in sink

And now for the after:

 

So we had my dad build a new bank of drawers. My husband and I installed the granite tile and backsplash. Installed new sink and nickel finish faucet and new hardware.  Darn me for not getting a picture of the new light fixture.  It too is nickel finish, much better than the sassy brassy light fixture from before.  Anyway, I thought it turned out fabulous, had so much more counter space.  And guess what...we ended up putting our house on the market within the month of finishing it.  So needless to say I didn't get to enjoy it for long.    ******Candie******