Our Favorite Room - The Sunroom

We've had some people over now, and the overwhelming consensus is the love of the sunroom.  It is so peaceful, all windows, and tucked off by itself.  It is by far our favorite room in the house.  Sadly, it is only 3 season right now, and I have a feeling it wont be finished off by this winter.  We've spent more money on getting sheetrock done, painting, carpet, and furniture, that this project may be put off a bit.

But, I'm holding out as long as i can in here!

I can't wait until fall, snuggle up in here looking at the trees about a 100 feet away turning colors, as I drink cider and eat some glorious pumpkin dessert!

Before picture - love the sunlight, not the paneling or the carpet

 Originally we thought the carpet could last until we remodeled this to be year round.  While priming, and sitting on floor, when you stood up, your pants came away with yellow smear/fuzz all over.  The carpet wouldnt make it much longer, and the thought of Jacob breathing in the dust was not ideal.

 

 

But first, I decided to prime.  This was the first, and last, room in the house I primed.  What a pain.  The stink, the lack of reward, the time.  Everything about priming is a suck.

Already looking better

Notice the lamp?  I hated the lamp, wicker, 1970 original
 



 But the painting part?  LOVED the paint.  I bought Ben Moore's Affinity line Dragonfly (thank you Young House Love).  With a room with this much sun, I knew i could risk a dark, bold color. 

Dragonfly, opposite walls are all Collonade Gray, like the dining/living room

Puppy photo bombs

 After painting, (of course) we decided to rip out the carpet to replace now instead.  The carpet ripped up fairly well, but the pad, not so much.  It was glued to the floor.  Entirely glued.  So started the process of scraping the floor up. It was a mess of black pad, yellow fuzz, and tired arms.

Pad left behind after removing carpet, 2 little patches are original floor

It seriously took me like 3 hours to do that.  DEPRESSING

All scraped, complete mess

Good thing i like this room for all the blisters it gave me.

Love it!!

 



Jacob's play area

See the light?  Isn't it great??

I absolutely love the light now.  It surprisingly goes quite well, and I've actually had several people ask where I bought it.  Vintage!  The curtains too are great, got from the Tar-jay boutique.  :)

Living & Dining Room Progress

 Remember this post?

Oh the paneling...

Well, it's actually been done for awhile, but with all the house stuff, unpacking, summer, and work, I haven't gotten an update on our progress.

The day we closed we ripped out all the paneling upstairs.

Underneath, we found sheetrock (thank you God!!) but in addition to nailing the paneling, they also glued it.  So, when we took it off, there was pieces of sheetrock ripped off, black adhesive marks from the glue, and a lot of mudding and taping to do.

After ripping it all off

Bob (Mike's dad) took over with a lot of the grunt work to get it ready for the sheetrocker to clean it up.  Had to rip out all the nails, scape off ripped sheetrock, prime all the walls, and scrap the popcorn ceiling to replace it with orange peel. 

While it was a pain, and long process to wait for it all to be done, still so glad we hired it out. 

New chairs

I love that the fireplace looks more grey then pink now

Entry way is so much brighter



2 colors meetin in corner

Ta Da!!

We went with two colors, both by Sherwin Williams.  The main color is Collande Gray, which has some brownish tones to it, and the large wall behind the couch, and down the hallway was Big Chill,  we wanted a shade of gray slightly lighter than the main walls since the hallway is so dark.

 

As you can see, we still need to replace the light fixutres and put up some curtains.

 

To do lists:

Entryway:

• Rip down paneling (done)
• Fix sheetrock
• Find new light fixture
• Replace door/window
• Replace wrought iron railings
• New tile instead of brick
• Paint

Living Room:

Remove Paneling (done)

Fix sheetrock

Remove curtains (done) and hang new ones (purchased)

Replace carpet (about 5 years out hopefully...)

Paint

Replace ceiling sheetrock and popcorn texture with knockdown

Replace trim

Figure out lighting in here (no lights in ceiling) - added some lamps

Dining Room

Rip down paneling (done)

Fix sheetrock

Remove and hang new curtains (purchased)

Paint

Replace light fixture

Long term:

• Knock out wall to the left, extending kitchen
• Putting sliding glass door in
• Remove carpet for kitchen flooring
• We will make the kitchen larger, more a combined kit/dr, similar to previous home, we dont care for a formal dining area. For now, will be used as a play area/toy room

 





Sunshine & Smiles

Kisses to Officer Posey

Finishing "My First Quilt"  - will post on this later, haven't given as a gift yet!

Wine & Canvas wtih my Amma Mama's.  Their friendship and support is great!

 

Cabin time - "Jumping" off the dock

Result of said "jumping" is then collapsing on the beach

Collecting apples from our trees to feed to the neighbor horse "Apple"
And my mom getting out of the hospital!!