Everything and One, Looks Better with a Crown

As my dear friend the Lady R, the Queen of Everything says, there is just something about a crown. And our cabinets were no exception. When we bought Sad Yellow the cabinets were off white, from the loving that only many years of cigarette smoke can do. They had too many coats of paint and the knobs were mismatched and oddly placed. As much as we wanted to run to Ilea and gut the kitchen ( we do have an Ikea opening here next Summer woohoo!) that wasn't going to happen. An update was just what the doctor called for. Below I've added some horrible befores and some of Reds work along the way. For a house tour stop here.  We still have a ways to go, but my the process we have made! Like all of my posts so far this is definitely a major IN PROGRESS post...but it makes me excited to share a final draft some day soon!

Keep an eye out for Reds counter tops. More on them later!

Life With a Hot Tin Roof

Ok so technically it is galvanized steel, but our love of tin ceilings is what started this whole thing. However at $20 a sq ft ( Not in our teacher budget!) that was not happening! So we stumbled upon the picture below. Don't you just love Pinterest. After some planning, 2 trips to Lowe's and some creative measuring later we have a rock star finished project! I can't wait to get the walls painted and see this room come together, but here is a sneak peak!

I will be posting new pictures soon! Hopefully this will be finished by the end of the week!

Let the Count Down Begin!

We are two, count them TWO weeks from move in! So much has happened in the last few weeks. Red keeps saying all the real changes happen this week and next and I couldn't be more excited! Here are a few pictures from the project. I will post some captions later this week!

A Family Affair

Once we spent some time with our porch we realized just how crazy it was. Time to do some up grading and rearranging...Hayes Van Horn Style! Shout out to my Dad for helping Red to put together the puzzle that is our little SYH.

 Yep that is duct tape that our previous owner had used to hold the door in place...awesome. I will post pictures of the final project...once the saw is out of the way!

Warming Our Home, and Our Hearts

For me fireplaces symbolize home. When we were house hunting I wouldn't even consider a house that didn't have a fireplace...no matter how beat up, sad and bizarre it looked. This weekends project was to clean the fireplace...gross, white wash the fireplace, spray the brass grill, and paint the mantle. So far I'm pretty pleased. Soon I will be taking off the blue paint and withing 2 weeks (fingers crossed) we will be ready to decorate this home! But until then here are some fireplace pictures!

 Now that the screen was clean and painted it was time to white wash that fireplace!

Not a fan of this photo that Red snapped.

 And to replace the CRAZY mantel, full of adult beverage caps, Red built us a new one!

Yep, that is GiGi...sitting on our mantel sanding it...you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!

Now for our first "finished picture"! I'm sure that there will be a lot of revisions over the next few months, but here is our first draft!