updates

obviously my two-posts-per-week goal is too much for me.  i must try to aim lower.

we have indeed been working on the house.  still slowly despite the fact that baby will be here in about five months.  yikes.  we have a lot of work to do.  our two most important projects BB (before baby) are the bathroom renovation and the baby room.

the bathroom update:

we finally received our custom color sample a few weeks ago:

it is difficult to tell on the picture but there actually is a difference between the two colors.  the smaller one is a bit more blue and the larger one is more of a green-blue color.  so we're going with the larger one.  this will be the color for the subs on bathroom walls and shower, trimmed in black tile.  now we've asked for a floor tile in the same color.  hopefully that won't take us months like these two beauties.  we ordered and received (!!!) our radiant floor heating system.  SOOOO excited about that. 

baby room update:

well, as you may remember, there are two places in the ceiling that need fixed as well as one place on the wall.  there was also a ton of junk in the room.  it was our holding area, NEVER to be viewed by persons that do not live here.  we managed to sift through and donate most of it.  thank God for amvets.  love that place.  they pick your junk up for you!!  so great as i'm not a host-a-garage-sale type of gal.  too much work.  chad filled the holes from our insulation project.  and last weekend he dremmeled (that's a word, isn't it?) a portion of our plaster ceiling away in prep for drywall. 

for some reason i removed the ENTIRE house of wallpaper except for a small portion of this bedroom.  so i must do that soon.  then chad will work on replacing some of the walls with drywall.  there was water damage or something at some point previous to our ownership.

other than that we've been working on the yard, a garden specifically.  i decided to ditch the CSA this year and focus on growing the items i know i'll eat.  and then let the local farmer's markets fill in the gaps.  i chose a spot near our future outdoor dining area.  chad poured a concrete barrier to build the bed up a bit and steer the water in the correct direction.

this is a pic of the garden today.  and i already picked my first strawberry!

till next time.  hopefully not a month from now.  no promises. 

hello! we're still here!

yes, it has been a LONG time since i last posted. well, really, you haven't missed much.

an update to the last post i made. the church was saved!!! many thanks to Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana and local people who took the time to write letters and attend the final hearing. it is good to know that there are some people out there willing to fight corporate america in order to save our local culture and history. yeah!!!

so work is getting ramped up here at irvington bungalow. we're still waiting on our damn tile sample color match from American Restoration Tile. right now we are having some issues with them and i'm a little peeved. but we'll see, i'll keep you posted. we'll be buying the Pex plumbing supplies next month. we've met with the person who will be laying the tile for us. now it is just getting the tile and then the project can start.

and we're on a timeline now. we're expecting a baby in the fall so there are some projects must be finished by then. we have to finish the bathroom and the walls in the entire house need to painted. but i would also like to finish the guest bedroom, refinish the wood floors and rip up the nasty kitchen linoleum too. of course there are still 1,000 other projects but those can happen post-baby.

we started cleaning out the future baby room this weekend. omg. we had boxes of stuff from jobs we left in 2005 in there. so it was in major need of cleaning and sorting. it felt good to purge some of our things.

oh! and we bought the light above for the baby room from Rejuventation. LOVE LOVE LOVE that store. once the kid is older we'll put a ceiling fan in that room and move this light to the basement bathroom. i mean, once we get around to actually doing something to the basement instead of filling it with more junk.

more to come soon!

i love unique furniture

recently i found this armoire at a store that refinishes furniture. i think she mostly does the shabby-chic type of look and i'm not totally into that. i like it here and there but the whole house is a bit of an overload for my taste. but i thought this piece of furniture was so cute...i thought maybe for a future baby room or even in the dining room for extra storage. i bought it white and will paint it when i figure out what i really want to do with it. the other day at lowe's i found this burnt orange paint color. it was among their mess-up custom colors. it was only $5 but was the top of the line pain, which saved us like $35. granted we're going to have to prime the hell out fo the armoire, but i'm so excited to see what it will look like (one day!)