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Master Bathroom

Deciding on the wee ones bathroom was easy. We weren't changing the actual color, just the feel. Easy peasy. Master bathroom? Not as easy.

In the next two years the master bathroom will experience a real renovation. As in new floors, stand up shower, garden tub, new vanity. Renovation.

However, a project that size, that costly has to wait a couple of years. The kitchen has a top spot on the renovation list.

But, that said the bathroom will be getting a makeover. New paint, maybe a slight change to the floor, and a face lift to the vanity. Just enough to hold us over until we win the lottery save up for a renovation.

Here is the current bathroom:



I am going to turn to you. My friends that have made their way here from my family blog, the fellow SITS's and the possible readers from the D&R.

For reference the bedroom will be shades of gray. Soooooo you can leave me comments, or e-mail me (there's a contact me button at the top).

I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

If we could pick a living room color...

....it would help me put together a whole mood of the living room. It would help me to visualize more of what sort of things we will hang on the wall. It will help me to piece it all together.

But we.can.not.pick.a.color.

It's the truth. I've looked at so many blogs and websites, looking through color options. I think I say "What do you think of this one?" to Mr. C more than I say anything else. His response "It looks like the Blond color."

They never look like the Blond color. But he is obviously in love with that color. And I like it too. Don't get me wrong. But I wish I could see it in person before being in love with it. The living room is a major deal. It's not like the color of the guest room, which I will hardly be in. Or the guys room (Mr.C would like me to refer to that room as the "Man Cave" but I just can't bring myself to do it).
Here is a picture of the living room as it is now:

View from doorway.



View from fireplace. *pictures blurred since they aren't MY kids I don't want to be posting pictures of their kids everywhere. Safety First right?!


View from the top of the stairs.

So not the best pictures or the best angles, but you can see that the living room color is going to be a major color choice, it's a lotta wall!

The Blonde that Mr. C is in love with is from this blog post. Expect to see a couple other things from this blog. We are in love with a banister makeover that they did!

Anyhow, that's the talk of the casa at the moment, living room color!!

Already changes to the Wee one's room.

I just posted a few hours ago about the paint color choice for her room. And I was looking at it more (which I've been doing a lot of for the past 2 weeks) and decided that now that I put it all together in a blog and really pictured ALL of it together. The color needed more "pop". It needed more. And I think I was a little scared of more color before, and in the past would have been talked out of it. But I have my inspiration picture and I am in love with it. I picture the room and I am in love with it. It's a color that will be able to be made much more playful and fun as Baby C grows.
So, we're changing the color folks.

Here's the blog entry that finally made me just decided that the previous choice of Grand Hotel Mackinac Blue was too light.

So here's a little peak at the color:



Now picture it again with the pompoms, and quotes, and maybe daisies! It fits much much better now!

Second Floor Bathroom

This bathroom will have a dual purpose. It's the guest and company bathroom, but also the wee one's. So while I don't want to totally kid-ify it. I do want her to like it, since she'll be using it more than anyone else.

Currently the owners have it decorated like this:


It's a fairly large bathroom, you can't really tell but there's a bit of room to the left of where the picture ends. Enough for some shelving for towels and other bath items. Something else that's difficult to tell from this picture is the color. I took another picture of the bathroom, but it's not the best quality, I was rushing. The bathroom is actually gray. A really nice gray. Our question has been how to dress that grayup for Baby C. We've come up with a couple of options.

Option One: is to accessorize with pink, bright pink. Not bubble gum bright pink, but more like this color pink:


Now it's a whole lot of pink when it's the only color in the room. But I'm attempting to talk Mr. C into being on board with a solid line midway around the room. With a matching solid shower curtain. I think it would add a great amount of color to the room. I saw a picture of a kids bathroom that I really liked this picture and quote they had. I am on the hunt for the picture again, but I can't find it right now. As soon as I do I'll come back and add it here. But in the mean time I'll do my best to describe it. It was a picture of her child (or maybe two kids) wrapped in towels. Framed. Above the pictures had a quote. I can't remember now what it said for sure. But we're going back and forth between "Rub-a-dub-dub" and "splish splash",

Option Two: Also known as Mr. C's least favorite. Adding wood paneling to break up all the gray. We would probably still accessorize with pink, just no stripe.

Option Three: A totally new color. This would be a totally blank slate. No color choices have been decided if we go with this. So I imagine if we don't decide between one and two, we'll have a lot of brainstorming ahead of us.

The Wee One's Room

I am really really excited about Baby C's room. It's like the best of it all. Her current room is pretty much exactly what I wanted for her. I love the wall color, I love the wall art, I love her furniture. There were some things I wanted to do that I never did, and things I wish I had had more room for.

I got to have the green and pink room that I wanted to bring her home to. Now she can have the turquoise room that I was too intimidated to do before. The room in the new house is bigger, windows on opposite ends of the room. and more wall space for more fun stuff!

Here is a picture of what we have as her room now in our current house:




I like it, but I am also really excited that with her new room in the new house, that we can do something new!

Here's what the room in the new house currently looks like:







The color we've chosen for the wee room is called "Grand Hotel Mackinac Blue" It's a light turquoise, depending on how light or bright it is once we get in the room will decide how many other turquoise accents we add to the room. Every online swatch of the color looks much more green than it is. So instead of doing that, here's a room painted the color that wee one's room will be.


I truthfully hope it turns out a tad brighter than this room. I think since there won't be as much sunlight it will turn out exactly how I want it. And if not, we'll well change plans (which may or may not include one coat of the next color on the card). No biggie.

Over the crib we're going to hang some paper pompoms (or cloth if I can find fabric that I like). I am not decided on the number of them yet. But there will probably be two or three colors. Two shades of pink and maybe a turquoise if the room needs some extra pop. Here's a picture of similar colors to give you an idea:



I found this adorable idea on this blog:


I will finally use the quote I loved when I was pregnant. I kept trying to find a place for it in her current room, but never had a chance. "Today you are you. Which is truer than true. For no one alive can be more youer than you." And for the sake of staying even with quotes I have a couple more quotes that are being decided on. I asked the above blogger how she did it, so I'm fairly confident I can do something similar. We will see!

I do plan on making another memory board like the one that currently hangs over her dresser. I want to make it bigger, so I'm waiting for canvas to go on sale at the craft store!

Mr. C and I were talking last night about what to do in the little "cove" in the room. I really like the idea of putting a toy box under the window like the current owners have. But I want to do something fun and a little whimsical with that area. Currently we're talking about decals of daisy's "growing" from the floor, or maybe dandelions. Nothing has been decided. We also are talking about where to put her name in the room. I want it somewhere where she see's it regularly so she can become familiar with how her name looks. But I also want it to flow with the room.

Lastly I found an Etsy store (if you don't know what etsy is, go look, now.) that makes custom glider cushions. This makes me very very happy! I haven't seen a fabric that I think I want for it, but once we get closer to getting it all together, I'm sure I'll find something that jumps out at me!

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions just send me a message!! Nothing is written in stone yet!

The Master Bedroom

Mr C. and I are super excited about the mater bedroom, the closet, and even including big plans for the bathroom (if those actually come to life in the next five years is a different story.)

Here are two pictures of the room as it is now (with the current owners belongings)




Now, you see the door down there? It is to the closet....against the wall in the L shaped room is the door to the bathroom. Here is where the major changes begin....
We are going to box the room, we're making that wall flush and extending the closet. There is a good reason that we will get to later (a good reason besides having a bigger closet). We haven't worked out the details of where the door to the bathroom will be, but trust me...we're already working on that. (I have a picture of the inside of th current closet..but you're going to have to wait until it's empty to get to see a picture, sorry!!)

Now after we've made that wall flush we are going to repaint and refurnish the room. They are currently rocking the sage green feel, we will be changing that.

The master bedroom was the only room they didn't get around to re-carpeting, so that will also be part of the redo, what it shown at the bottom of the photo is the current bedroom carpeting, whats at the top is what we're just going to extend into the room:



The look we'll be going for of the room will be a mix of these:






My dreams for our closet look a little something like this:



But since that's the size of an entire bedroom, you can all be assured it won't look much like that at all. But we are going to add some shelves, and drawers into the closet to make it more organized, and hopefully if all goes well relieve the need for a dresser (while there is room for one, we'd like to make the room larger by not having one! Crazy idea huh?)

It will probably look a little more like this:

Just with more organization, no slanted ceiling, and maybe have a her side and a his side...

As I said, we've got major plans. If timing works in our favor the actual bedroom and closet will be done by the summer!!