Our House

JEGs and I made settlement on Falconhead Cottage on April 7, 2011.  It is a three bedroom twin built in 1923.  Although the house had been gutted and completely renovated just a few years before we moved in, we still have many things we would like to do to put 'our' stamp on the home.

We don't have any mind-blowing 'after' shots (Rome wasn't built in a day ;) but here are some 'before' and ' in progress' pictures for your viewing pleasure...

Living Room

Our living room was dark with two-tone walls of red and brown and smelly carpet:

After ripping up the carpet, we slapped on a coat of Valspar's Jekyll Grand Dining Sea Mist and replaced the subfloor and carpet.  Next up:  new furniture!

Kitchen

One of the things that really attracted us to this house was the massive, eat-in kitchen-- and I'm sure you can see why:

To help maximize the space, JEGs built a little office nook in an otherwise unused corner

Mudroom 

Right off of the kitchen is a small mudroom that leads out to the backyard.  We currently are using it as a laundry room.  Eventually we would like to add in a small powder room.

Third Bedroom

At the top of the steps, the first room you will see is our third bedroom.  When we first moved in, we set this us as a walk-in closet.  However, a month later we found out we were expecting, so it was converted into a nursery for our little monster.

After shuffling furniture around, I picked Glidden's Navajo Sands for the wall color, fell in love with a 6ft tree decal and added some colorful linens

JEGs busted out the plaster in the closet and hung fresh new drywall as well as installed some fabulous Closet Maid in the closet for more beneficial storage.  More details here.

Guest Room

The next room on our house tour is our guest room.  At first this was just a place to house our junk.  After the news of our pregnancy, we scrambled to make it a suitable place for my mother to stay.  We are far from done on this room however;  the next step it to make it a man cave/playroom for the monster.

Bathroom

Our bathroom is modest, but functional.  We love love love the black and white tile on the floor.  The crazy blue paint?  Notstomuch.

We finally did something about the blue paint and covered it up with Glidden's Navajo Sand that was leftover from the baby's room.

Master Bedroom

Finally we have our boudoir.  If this were MTv's Cribs, I would be talking about how this is where the magic happens.  However, very little interior design magic has happened here.

We moved the smaller dresser into the baby's room and added some closet space to hold us over till we can do a bigger closet renovation.

So there it is- our modest 1200 sq ft of investment.  We’ll share more details about what will go where and what projects we want to take on as things unfold. We’re all about the whole real-time blog-as-we-go thing – especially since we have so many new projects to tackle!  Hope you'll stick around for the ride!