Upstairs Before and a Downstairs Update

We haven't posted much on here with the house mostly because we're constantly working on it in our free time.  But it is long past time I share the upstairs, and I have a few update pictures of our dining room and living room.  Our family room that is off the kitchen has had a few updates as well, but with a husband taking a post call nap on the couch and toys on the floor, I'll wait to take those pictures.

When we moved in to this house, we chose a room for Hannah that had pretty double windows and a paint color similar to the paint in her first nursery.  After digging through the old paint under the house, we came to realize it was the exact same color of paint we had chosen for her old room, BM Revere Pewter.  Talk about fate.

Her room is much larger than her first nursery, so there are some changes we'll make to her room.  Most definitely we'll get her a bigger rug that fits her room, and we'll hang a few more things on the walls.  I haven't decided whether to order more fabric to make two more panels in here.  And I would love one day to take down the tiny chair rail.

This side of the room needs a little more to me.  I'm just not quite sure what it will be.

This next room is our guest room.  It has a full attached bath to it.  So we thought it would be nice for any visitors.  Come see us friends!  It was a little girl's room with the previous owners, but obviously for a guest room we want something different than the purple.  This weekend I painted all of the trim in here, and Weston removed the tiny chair rail.  It was glued on really good, so we've had fun spackling around the room.  We'll paint it a nice neutral once we get all the wall repairs done.

Here is the attached bath.  We'll probably paint in here as well.  I would love to one day replace the sink with a cabinet type sink, and find a different window treatment for in here.

Weston and I think these built ins are really cool in the bathroom.  I could decorate it up really cute with towels and soaps.

We have one more bedroom upstairs that is just storing a few things for us that we either need to put in the attic or donate.  We'll make some lighting and paint updates in here one day.  This may be a future baby room or hobby room.

Across the hall from this room is our wonderful bonus room.  Which it really just houses a few of Hannah's toys at the moment.  Weston will tell you that this is going to be his man room, but I think it's going to be man room and play room.

And last room upstairs is the kid bathroom.  Other than brushing her teeth, we haven't really used this bathroom yet.  I think this will change pretty soon.  I want to do a deep clean of the tub first and a new shower curtain.  We love the double sinks and the separate water closet.  We'll paint both the walls and trim in here too.

The closed door is to a small linen closet.

See what I mean about trim painting?   And a lot of the upstairs seems more creamy yellow than the trim paint in other parts of the house.  So while I grumble everytime I tackle painting another room's trim.  It will be nice for it to all be cohesive.

Ok, so I want to share a few things that we've been doing to the downstairs.  This post is already really long, but I want to show them quickly.  I'll go into more detail and have source lists where I found everything once the rooms get more finished.

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The dining room walls used to be textured.  We skim coated the walls and then painted them a navy.  We want to add faux wainscoting to the bottom which is why we painted the bottom half white in the dining room.

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We still have a lot to do in the dining room like make the curtain panels, wainscoting, and add some art.  But we've worked a lot in this room to get it ready for the holidays.  Not the best picture below, but this is our new sectional for the living room.

And last but not least Hannah's playset has been refinished.  It was pretty dirty and unsealed when we moved here.  You can see how much dirt came off with just a little water and a scrub brush.  

The picture below was after most of the top half and ladder had been cleaned.

We also got rid of the sandbox down below and added a full deck on the first floor.  And on the left side of the tunnel, we added some vertical boards so that Hannah can't go down the really steep and tall ladder.  She loves to crawl through the tunnel, and now we don't have a heart attack that she is going to fall when she gets to the other side.  Then we stained it all a medium chestnut color.  Hannah loves it, and it's a lot safer for her to enjoy.  Just in time for winter, eh?  :)  In truth, this has been finished for awhile, but I'll miss the warm days out here....not the mosquitos though.

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Thanks for checking out what all we've done so far and the upstairs to our house.  I know this post got really long, but I thought if I don't sit down and get this on the blog now it'll wait even longer.