This Past Week...

This past week has continued to be crazy.  We have yet to have a night where we come home from work, cook dinner, eat dinner, and relax.  I keep wondering when we are going to reach that point.  Friends that are homeowners assure me it won't be for at least another month, eek.  Anyhow, along with business comes productivity- so here is a weekly update of some changes that have been happening in the Jilliams (Jones+Williams- the whole naming the house thing will be much easier once we are married, oh yeah, I think I am supposed to be planning a wedding right now) 

Guest Room Makeover Monday

You may have seen photos of our good friend Neal who had the honor (or maybe not) of spending the last weekend ever in our apartment with us.  The poor guy came up to Maine to relax and snowboard and he found himself moving boxes down our terrible flight of narrow stairs into the garage, Neal, we really do love you.  In order to get one last good snowboarding weekend in, he had planned a trip to come back up to Maine from PA this weekend.  This was good motivation to get our guest room habitable.  I loved the room before we moved in, and before it became the "crap" room- you know, the room where you just toss everything you don't have a place for yet.  Here are some before and afters for you.  The only money we spent in this entire room was on the duvet cover ($25 @ Target) and a foam mattress topper ($10 @ you know where).   Here is our $35 room -AKA- Neal's room 

Before

After

Before

After

The dresser and twin bed were given to us by Randy's parents.  I believe this was his brother's bed when he was a kid.  We had the curtains from the apartment, and although they don't go to the floor, we probably won't bother with new ones for a long while.  The mirror is from our bedroom, we originally got it from a friend that moved.  The nightstand used to be in my tiny half size closet in the apartment, I used it as shelving!  We are going to refinish the nightstand and dresser.  I got the materials to do it this weekend so we will see if that actually happens.  We are debating on the color.  I almost think a dark yellow would be nice, but then I don't want this to end up being a circus-like room. White is always good.  We are hoping to find a cheap rug also- but we have other areas in the house that are in more need of a rug than this.  Also, Randy flipped the fan blades over so that they are plain white now.  They blend in to the ceiling much better.  It was a sore spot before.  

The Curtain Dilema 

We found curtains we loved at Target, go figure.  We decided to get one set for the bay window in the living room (here), and we were going to wait on new ones for the bedroom.  Well, since we had to put some sort of window treatment in Neal's room, we decided to bite the bullet and get the same curtains in gray for the bedroom.  I wanted white, but Randy talked me into color.  I am always worried about things being too matchy-matchy.  But he was right, the gray is awesome. 

Before

After

You can see we hung a green mirror we had in the old apartment.  Today my goal is to get some more artwork up in this room. 

I don't want to give away all the goodness in one post, so I'll wait an hour.

Until then, Happy Sunday Morning! 

B