Mini House Tour

Thought I would give you a quick look at the progress of our new house!  It's so exciting and I have definitely started the hunt for paint colors, flooring, and so much more.  If you are interested, follow my board "Our New Home" on Pintrest !!

In the picture above, you can see the side of our house that faces the mountains & our street (back).  They are just starting to frame the roof of the covered porch.

Lots of bloggers that do decorating and DIY projects have been doing home tours...so here is a sneak peak of my home tour! Pardon the dust ;) !!  Here is our Great Room with french doors (not in yet). On the left wall will be our fireplace framed by two more windows. I just know that will be one of my favorite spots in the house!

Above is our kitchen where I will be able to whatch the horses while I cook.  To the right is the entry which will have a banister staircase.

 I will have to give you the tour of the 2nd floor later... but this will all be an open banister. 



More of the 1st floor to come as well!  Yesterday I was able to go to a Central Oregon Home and Garden show and see what kind of landscaping I will be able to do in the High Desert.  Stay tuned for my favorite ideas.

Happy Friday!





Kitchen Ideas

Happy Monday!  I promised to post some of my ideas for our house build and so I was looking at Better Homes and Gardens posts and here were some cute ones!  I am not quite brave enough...or do I really want chalkboard paint on an entire cabinet,  but I thought this was cute.

This next picture is a great use of glass cabinets.  I think I have decided that I would like some sort of glass cabinet somewhere in our kitchen.

The open shelves are a new trend as well and I like them.  I don't want to lose too much cabinet space, but a couple like this would be awesome.

What do you think?  Keep it sweet & simple!

Fabric Pallet

I have been looking at all sorts of colors and designs, specifically with fabric right now.  The fabrics are possible curtains, pillows, etc. for our new home.  Here are a couple great designer websites that I found thanks to OwensOlivia blog.  She does a Fabric Friday blog post each week and I loved this week's designers.

For some fun fabrics, go to:

Cloud9fabrics

Spoonflower

Beautiful designs!

Baby!

Here is a fun little collage of baby Tanner with his "auntie" B & Jules.  Such a cute little guy. 

Dining Chair Update

While in Southern California, my best friend mentioned that she has thought about reupholstering her dining room chairs, but was nervous about it.  That got me going on all the ideas we could do with them.  They were a garage sale purchase by her husband and his roommates back in college that they have been using ever since.  The vinyl seats were ripped in spots and they looked all-around out of date.  So I talked her into tackling them while I was down for the week. 

We went to Lowe's and purchased these materials to accomplish our project:

Rust-o-leum Glossy White Spray Paint
Drop Cloth
Staple Gun and small staples
Course Sand Paper
1 1/4 yards of fabric for seat (JoAnne's)

Overall the project for 6 chairs cost: $83


Step 1:

We unscrewed the seats (pried the first one off, until we realized they were screwed on...oops!), and cut off the vinyl.  I started to take the staples out that held the vinyl in place, and decided that whoever upholsted it, went crazy with the staples, and I didn't want to remove them all.

Step 2:



We used coarse sand paper to scrub away at the years of sticky finish...we even used a putty knife on the top part to scrape some of it off.  These took quite some time since they had lots of "scrollie" spindles.

Step 3:

Next, we cleaned the chairs of any dust in preparation for painting.  The paint we chose was a White Gloss Rust-O-Leum spray paint, and away we went.  This also took some time to make sure we covered everything well.  We did about two coats each, which amounted to about 1 1/2 cans per chair.

Step 4:

In between coats of painting, I worked on stapling the fabric to the chair cushions.  I kneeled on the cushion and pulled the fabric as tight as possible and then...bang! Stapled it.  And guess what...I used just as many staples as the originals had!! haha....had to make it perfect, tight, and smooth.

Step 5:

Last but not least, we took coarse sand paper to the edges of the chair to give them an antiqued look, dusted them off, and re-attached the seat cushion.  Overall, these took a lot of time, but what a change!!  So worth the $83.

Sweet and Simple!