Bedroom makeover

I need a major bedroom makeover. And with Knock off wood designs I feel empowered to make a headboard and dresser that I want. I just now decided, too, that I need to sew new bright colored curtains and make a bedspread with some cute accent pillows. Oh jeez... sounds like I am nesting without the baby part. Anyways, here are some things I am liking for my new makeover.

Headboard: Love this Farmhouse headboard with the arch. It is classified as an easy project to do. Can I (well not just I but with Rillz of course) really make this? I hope because I love it!

and then I plan to make this dresser. Right now we have two seperate tall dressers but I want a smaller longer one to replace both. For some reason I just love this one. I will have to adjust where some clothes go... but I am so willing to. So if you have never checked out http://www.knockoffwood.blogspot.com/ I highly recommend it. She shows plans for making pottery barn/west elm/crate and barrel look a likes. Such great work by her.

Ok back to my room makeover. Lets talk color... I am not set on certain ones yet but thinking of doing the gold/yellow color I painted the nightstand with maybe some brown or red or orange. Totally not sure on accent colors.

My curtains now are a tweed red fabric. The bed is red and brown. It's kinda dark and enclosed. We have two small windows and the room just needs to feel brighter.

This room is not brighter but I still can't get away from the warmer red color. Love it! I wouldn't mind doing these colors.




I like this fabric. I also like the orange scheme. I have an orange chair in the bedroom now.
I could get this in a yellow/brown or red too. Some of my comforters now are Hawaiian print. They are pretty fabrics
Ok the trendy fabrics right now... I can't get away from. I LOVE the sparrow bird and may have to sneak it in the decor. I am not sure if Rillz is so on board with the sparrow theme.

How awesome and beautiful is this fabric. YES! Love it.

This is wallpaper but can you just see it as a duvet cover. Ahh... lovely! Yes, the sparrow.

Clearly I am not so sure about fabrics for now but I will keep thinking about it and hopefully making my thoughts into my bedroom makeover. Slowly but surely. I am sure by the time I get done with the whole room the ideas will be outdated. Thats why maybe the Hawaiian fabrics may be best because in my household it won't go out of style. But I don't know, those sparrow bird prints are like heaven to my eyes! I just really love them... but Rillz... not so much. We all know the bedroom decor is a womens territory anyways so whatever I say goes... Right?!? Maybe not.

Backyard Fence

On Wednesday and Thursday Rillz and I got to spend both days together. We decided to start the big, complicating task of making a fence in my backyard. My dad had a big dog kennel that he wasn't using and gave us the panels to use as the chainlink fence. Money saver!! We started on the easier side of the house and finished in about 6 hours. The rest of that day we spent going to home improvement, lumber, metal, farming stores. You name it... we were probably there. We were looking for a metal post with a flange (metal plate on the bottom of the post that has holes to drill in the ground). No where had them. I thought it would be a common item. Guess I was wrong. We gave up for the day and went to Tucanos (a brazillian type restaurant) for dinner with some friends. Thursday we woke up and Rillz had to go in for about an hour and a half and I just went with him. I started calling fence companies to find someone who sold those dumb posts. I finally found a metal shop that could specially make them. We went down there and they were cheaper than we had been quoted on the phone... always good to hear! We went to Home Depot and rented some cement drilling device to drill the screws in. Anyways... so now our poles are up and the kennel panels are still waiting to be finished. Yet another project around my house that is just waiting to be finished. But when I have a fence it will be great!


The before picture of no fence
What do we do with this?

Drilling the wood to the brick house

The after picture. (notice how it is a kennel panel)

Drilling holes into the concrete for the poles.

Great fence building Rillz. I tried to help as much as possible but that equals not much help. Oh well.

Our new house

We were very blessed to be able to buy a house. We closed on it 2 days before the wedding. Wow what a mess I was that month. And somehow everything worked out and I am still alive. Our house is 3 bedroom 1 bath. 1280 square feet. We also have a 1100 square foot shop in the back that we are going to turn into a game room/ music studio/ storage space. The yard is pretty low maintenance, which is perfect for someone that has no idea about lawn work, like me! 

This is the front of our house.

Here is our living room. Our house has hardwood floors/lanolium in every room but the 3rd bedroom.


This is the pantry space. It is pretty big which comes in handy because I don't have a lot of storage space in my kitchen

Here is half of our kitchen where we eat.

And here is half #2 of the kitchen

This is our backyard. Just enough grass space for me to handle. Our yard came with a buddha in the backyard which made me happy!

This is the outside of our shop

We are happy to be able to buy a home in this economy! Home Sweet Home