January has come and gone and can I just say that I am so glad. I have had a busy month to say the least, but I am feeling so fulfilled to have gotten so much accomplished for the worst month of the year!!! What have I been doing you ask, well, let me tell you! I decided that it was well past time to get my house under control so that I can actually stand to live here and maybe even enjoy this little home of ours. Since finding out that we are having yet another girl, which is great, I decided that it was time to move Cole out of the big room that he's in and move the girls in there. So, with my major nesting bug (or so everyone says I'm nesting) I decided to paint the girls room (Chocolate Brown and Pink) then I had Greg build me some closet organizers so that I can finally get some organization around here! It turned out super cute and now I have just oodles of space and I love it. I even made room for the new baby in there! So, with doing all of that, I needed to make Cole a new room and so that is what I did. I decided to paint Cole's room tan and red. Let me tell you how fun it is to paint red when no ones bothers to tell you how to do it right the first time around. I put on the first coat of red (over my yellow paint) and it looked horrible!!! I mean bad, but I thought OK, the second coat will look better. So I painted the second coat and that only looked slightly better... so on the the third coat it looked a little bit better... but I thought it for sure needed another coat and MAYBE just maybe it might turn out. Fourth coat, it looked decent but still not quite as good as I would have liked. So, at this point, I decided that it was time to start over and do it right. First a word of advise for all of you who are going to paint a red wall. START with Grey Primer on your wall!!!!!!!!! This makes the red paint coat like it should the first time around. Then the second/seventh coat goes on GREAT!!! I could have saved myself 4 coats, so 7 coats later Cole's room is finally done (except for the touch up that now needs to be done on the trim), but I think that it turned out really cute. I also had Greg build me a closet organizer in his room which allowed me to take out a dresser from his room so all he has in there is a book shelf and bed. It is so nice having some space and to actually have a place for everything. I almost don't know what to do! Almost!!!!!! It was so great to keep myself busy to help me not get the winter blues... Now February is here and it is almost spring like weather today, nice and sunny and kind of warm. Gotta love that... Here are some pictures, I don't have all the decorating all done in the rooms, but you get the general idea of how cute it will be!
The Girls Room!!!!
Another view...
Girls Room once it get's curtains up (Paige is up on the bed holding the one end!)
The Closet with it's organizers, and pretty organized! (for me anyway)
Coles Room!!!
Another view...
And his closet!!! You get the jist of it!
7 comments:
It looks awesome! Is my house next? Payten wants his room re-done and it definately needs it. Thanks for a little inspiration in the painting and organizing department!
You did great!!! Your rooms look spotless!! I want closet organizer's, are they hard to build?? I love that Paige helped you in the picture, she is your little buddy huh!
The rooms both look great! Tell Greg he did a great job on the closets. The colors are perfect.
That is great. I need some of those closet organizers. Were they hard to make? I'm assuming it will be my job if I want it to get done. I love the color combos in both rooms. Thanks for the tips on the red paint. Sorry you had to paint 7 coats. YUCK
And congrats on another girl. I need some tips on how to get girls. :)
Emily
Lori, Wow, we love your rooms. The paint and colors look really really good!!! You are one ambitious little lady. I love January projects. I'll have January projects all year long when we get home!! Your closet organizers are great. Tell Greg he is pretty darn talented, and I bet the kids love their rooms.
Lori, your bedrooms turned out fabulous! You have real talent when it comes to decorating. Way to go. I am very impressed. The closets are awesome as well. Thanks for posting the pics so I could get a visual.
Darling rooms. I didn't know you were redecorating.... maybe that means I don't come and visit enough (sorry). You have one handy hubby! Can he come to my house and do a few things?
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