House Befores

This is a picture of how it’s been around here the past week or so (this is our rental “summer” home). Do you notice the 5 pairs of shoes on the COUNTER? We’ve been going 90 to nothing all week after closing on our new house on Monday. Painters started today painting several (not all) of the rooms, so it was stressville yesterday trying to pick the colors (I had a noon deadline but got an extension til 2:00 and gave my last color selection closer to 2:30)! Thanks to my friend Amie for taking time out of her morning to walk around the house with me and give me her input, AND, go to the fabric store with me to try to figure out Mallory fabrics so I could pick out wall color. I pretty much went with everything she suggested, so if it doesn’t turn out good it’s all her fault! Hee Hee ~ JUST KIDDING!!!! 🙂

One thing I WILL NOT MISS in this house is the kitchen sink that is literally 5″ deep. Get out your measuring tapes people. 5 inches!! What?? I will also not miss the dishwasher that a) doesn’t dry dishes and b) sounds like a heavy piece of farm equipment when it’s running. Less than 2 weeks!!

Here are a few “before” peeks from our new home. This is the Master, and we’re painting it, our bathroom (ceiling included) a light smokey blueish green color. I will post “after” pics when the painting is done.

Here is my future (long awaited) sewing room. It’s a very basic (boring) room with these 2 windows. No closet or anything, BUT, it has a pocket door. This, my friends, means that I can shut the door and “get away” from work whenever I want to! After much consideration of painting it some fun funky color, we decided to paint it WHITE! I’m going to have fun with my fabric, thread, valances maybe, recover my chairs, etc. I’m pinning tons of ideas on my newest addiction, Pinterest!

Here is one of the kids rooms upstairs, which will most likely house one or both boys. It’ll be painted a very basic “Elephant Tusk” khaki neutral color.

Here is our kitchen. This is definitely a BEFORE, as we’re in the process of planning our renovation of the kitchen. Luckily we know someone who works for a cabinet company! We’re going to “make due” with this for a couple of months while we finalize our plans, pick out what we want and then start the process of the renovation. Luckily the appliances are new and we’re keeping the floor, so it’s a matter of new cabinets, hood, countertops, backsplash and we’re also hopefully going to remove part of a wall! Good times ahead! The cabinets with the XXXXX will GO!

This is our laundry room (before). We’ll also be replacing all of the cabinets in here too (as well as all bathrooms). I am most excited about cubbies that we’ll be adding in here for all the kids stuff!

This sink is nasty, but believe it or not it works! Maybe I should learn to cut hair??

I will be sure to post AFTER pics when the painting is done, and we’ll be moving in 2 weeks from yesterday! Lots of work ahead but we’re very excited!!

Don’t forget, I’ll be at TJ’s Fabric on Saturday from 10-1!

I’ve listed a few new designs this week ~ all on the home page at Applique Cafe. I still have one more to re-sew and list tomorrow. You can see previews of 5 more designs coming soon on our Facebook page!