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Before
After
*You can see the chalkboard paint that I used on the longest wall. The other walls that are painted is the same color in the adjoining room, Hazel by Sherwin Williams.
The red at the bottom of the picture shows how we just painted the sunroom and not the entire porch. It's a massive improvement and hopefully my daughter will stop referring it as "the dirty room". Ha ha. :)
This was the laundry room as of a week ago. Adam has since added chair rail and baseboards and I'm in the process of painting those. The blue is something "Aquatics" from Valspar...I'll post it in the final laundry room post.
As of Saturday, we got this baby delivered to us from Lowe's with it's matching counterpart. Back before Christmas Adam came across a deal where it was practically a buy one, get one free deal for the Whirlpool Duet frontloaders. We been using this set at my in-laws during the year that we've spent with them and I LOVE them. I just never thought we could afford them! Even better, our delivery date got pushed back week after week (apparently we weren't the only ones who bought them and they ran out of dryers) and they upgraded us to a STEAM dryer! They were actually doing us a favor by delaying the date so we could finish as much in the laundry room anyway and we were the ones who benefitted!
My Aunt Ramona had asked if the blue was really that dark as it looks in the pictures. Well, it'll look different on a computer but the "cafe blue" from Valspar is a grayish blue and it'll blend nicely with the Elizabeth Paisley duvet I have from Pottery Barn. The chandelier pictured will be transferred to the dining room and will be replaced with an amber colored Austrian crystal chandelier my mom brought back from Vienna. 
These are the colors in the master bedroom. We began with the white on the lapboard and loved it. Then we painted the walls a khaki color. Then, we painted the ceiling blue.
I love the blue ceiling, but I think we have too many colors going on in a small room.
I think the blue and white will stay, but the khaki might have to go. What do you think? We might just paint over the khaki and do white walls with the blue ceiling. 
I pulled these pictures off of Callie's blog over at Simple Eye Design that she got from Pottery Barn. I love the look of the white bedrooms.
I've always thought that white was supposed to be boring, but I find these rooms to be anything but!
I found this image over at House Beautiful when I started looking into painting the ceiling a color. After all it is the fifth wall. :) I went a little darker with the blue because I knew our 10 foot ceilings could handle it. It's a little richer for a master bedroom I thought.
Sooooo...any thoughts? Lose the khaki? Do you like the khaki? Adam says it looks to Eddie Bauer-ish.
I bought these Pottery Barn shelves for a steal at a garage sale last summer. There are 8 units in this picture, but I only have 5. I think it'll be a perfect use of space in this wide hallway.
The brown under the stair treads will be painted white and I think I'm going to number them in a really faint color. Ideally, a stair runner would be great, but I don't think we have the money for that now. We still need to order the sheet metal to go in between and then will trim out the border and add a handrail to finish it off in between the beams.
I can't wait for that tan-nish mauve-y fireplace to be painted a crisp white!
I love putting Adam on Daddy duty for the night so I can contribute to the house in some way.
London, a friend of my sister-in-law's and my brother-in-law, Daniel were two of those helpers. We are so grateful for them!
Dan had to borrow Adam's painting pants and we got a kick out of how they fit him.
This is how the color looks as you enter the entryway.
Looking to the left in into the living room.
Really makes a house look like a home doesn't it?
This is just a close up of the primer over the termite damage on the living room ceiling. We still have to paint over it with ceiling paint and hopefully that'll disquise it that much more.
We had some sweet friends from church come help us on a Saturday to paint away up here in the guest room. The color is called "Vintage Yellow" by Glidden and I'm very happy with the result.
It's sunny by color in the day, but gets really toned down when the sun sets.
It gets a lot darker when you turn the corner in the room towards Will's side of the room, but there's only room for his crib there so dark is actually not that bad. My mom was just in town and made curtains for the room. Check back soon to see the goodness. They're beautiful. :)
The new paint color, "vintage yellow" by Glidden, that will go in the pink guest room upstairs.
The "Filtered Shade" gray color by Valspar that will go in the kids room upstairs.
Proud of my priming skills upstairs now that both rooms are done. Just primed...not painted.
The fireplace cleaned and ready to be sealed. Remember, the stove is going to hide that patch of new brick. I know, it still looks dirty, but that is the best it's going to get. We call it "rustic." :)
Updated staircase with the wall gone and new pine stair treads. We're trying to come up with a cool idea for a custom banister now...staircase post to come...
Vaulted ceiling in dining room with sheetrock and brand new windows that Adam replaced!
Old doorway leading from former living room to former dining room. Now that it's a master bedroom, we needed to wall it up.
House on an early Saturday morning waiting for work to be done.
Through those beams is my new laundry room that Adam and his dad framed up. Doorway entrance is from the hall. We're looking at it from the dining room.
And the sheetrock work that still needs to be done in the sitting room over the boards and on both sides of the doors.
