BeFloor and After

Here is a quick BEFORE!
I abhor carpet. This was the only room in the house that still had it so getting it gone is step one, then paint that wall off white and then the flooring.
Ta Da! Okay I know we have to do baseboard and eventually I would like to get rid of the panelling altogether, but this is WAY better, don't you think? It is Laminate flooring and looks so clean, fresh and tidy. I also replaced all his electrical covers with safety ones.
I would love to get him a cute rug but he won't leave them alone and we might find it out on the lawn come morning!
Oh...Pssssssst...that little teddy bear pillow in the middle was $2 at goodwill and still had it's tags on. The blue ones were 49 cents and I bought his Mexican Blanket IN Mexico!

Just so you can be a little bittle Jealous of him, here is a picture of his view out his window. It is not a great picture with the screen, but you can see that he will enjoy HORSES out his window.

Go check out the pic I added of D in his costume while your here!

Having a Go at Blogging

Well, this may be akin to a monkey with a paint roller: A disaster! However, I have been SO inspired by a few blogs I have been reading. Some very realistic and some where what they call 'on the cheap' is more than I can see myself spending to remodel right now.

I purchased our house in 2001 and more than half the reason was the little 'garage' behind which is now my grooming salon. Other reasons I liked the house were: Great trees, corner lot, stone fascia, white cabinets in kitchen and three bedrooms.

There are lots of things I knew I wouldn't love about the house, but I didn't know seven years later I would still be staring at some (manY) of them. Firstly, the house had nearly white carpet. I am the mother of a disabled son (then 3), have dogs (I rescue, so the number varies), groom for a living and generally LIVE in my home. The carpet lasted almost a year before it was intolerable. Then we pulled it up (being generous here...basically we means ME, one strip at a time) and found wood floors...that had been less than loved in most of the house. I have managed to get most of the BIG blobs of paint off and it looks better for the effort, but they need to be either refinished or repainted, more on that later. Then there was the fact that when they added on they have THREE doorways in my kitchen....ARG! The 'master bedroom' was once a living room and they did some horrid 'pocket door fix' which I tore out. Where the front door once was there is a lovely piece of "wood". There were ugly box shrubs out front and a lean too shed on our porch (YUCK AGAIN).

There are lots of things I would replace and redo in a major way if I intended to live here FOREVER. I am in my early thirties and am a horse-owner. We board the horses, but the goal is to have them HOME sometime soon. So this will mean buying land and a new home. So I save any 'big renovations' for THAT home and for when I can be one of those people who say "It was only $100 for this" . For now, I am a ten dollar, curbside, dumpster diving, goodwill shopping decorator!

I will post more later, I fear you have all passed out now from my rambling.

------above....an very unappealing 'face' of my house the "old door" is an eyesore and I have to decide whether or not to put a door, a fake door or cover it so much with flowers you can't see it. Either way this is a BIGGER future project that will require some help from my hubby.

Phot0 of one of my surprise lilies today!