Wednesday, October 17, 2007

An Inspiring Home Tour

Run over to Miss Monica's website, The Homespun Heart, and check out her pictures from a recent tour of the Martha Stewart homes. It has to be one of the most inspiring house tours because I wanted to do everything in every single picture.

We have tons of projects going on over here and our updates are slow with two children and little money or time. We have high hopes though for the kind of home we would like to create here. These pictures gave me another dose of fuel.

On our to-do list:

Painting our kitchen cabinets- I have decided that I am going to paint them an antique white and do bronze hardware. Currently they are oak and have no hardware so I think this will add some character to these.

We are going to do wainscot in our entryway. It is currently painted chocolate and I think it would add some nice character and pizazz to the entryway. We will also be adding a bench for seating.

We are creating an area in our garage for the kids to take their coats and shoes off. I cleaned out the garage and am finally able to park my car in there (whoohoo!) and now we have room to make our own mud room area. I am putting a bench out there (to take off our shoes) and I got hooks to hang our coats up. This will hopefully clear out some of the clutter and will help prevent all of the tracking in of muddy boots and such.

We are going to do some crown molding in our home.

Our upstairs bathroom needs serious updating- wallpaper removal, painting, new lighting, new fan, new flooring...we pretty much need to gut this room and start all over.

We are going to do wainscot in our family room downstairs. It has a ledge and we are going to do this from that point down.

We would like to do a large family desk (like the one featured in the tour), but an L desk so that my husband and I can work together instead of one person in the office and one person hunched over at the couch. I think we are going to try and build this ourselves.

The list goes on and on and on. Our little home is a big sucker of time and money, but the more we do it to it, the more I am beginning to like it.

Sound Off: What is on your to-do list?

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4Comments:

Blogger thehomespunheart
"Amy - I'm so thrilled that you enjoyed the tour and were inspired! I loved hearing all of your ideas and certainly know how it is to have more ideas than time/money/knowledge to complete them all! But, a little at a time will make great results!"

at 10:14 AM  

Blogger Christi
"I love your ideas! I know how it is to have more ideas than time or money..."

at 7:40 AM  

Anonymous Marva
"You have great ideas Amy.
We are hoping to finally get our landscaping done around our house as well as redo our driveway. The driveway will be quite a project (as it is over 600 ft. in length).
We also need to add some more shelving to the twins' closet and do some touch ups on interior doors.
Our walk in panrty off the utility room needs some shelving work done too.
I have more time than money, but time is short too. The boys are almost 19 months and do keep me busy!! Probably too many ideas."

at 11:56 AM  

Blogger Lylah
"I've taken a peek and thought I'd put up the "show" of our home remodel. Can't say we had ideas to save time or money, but it was an interesting process and am so thankful it got over....eventually. You can check out our homefront remodel on my blog at lylahledner.blogspot.com

blessings! Lylah"

at 6:13 PM  

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