It started with a pick

Have you ever messed with something, again and again – until, well, until you  have to actually do something about it now?

I have.  Now, I am paying for it.

When we first moved in to our house, we made lots of changes.  We redid just about the entire kitchen, we painted all the rooms, we even put down new flooring in the living area.  We knew that we would make some changed in the bathrooms, but not now.  Not even necessarily this year.  But it started with a pick.

 

This is what I started to pick at:

I picked at a section of wallpaper and tore it off.  Then a few days later I picked again.  Then, again and well, you get the idea.  Before I knew it Robert and I were tearing pieces off in huge sections.  And then decided to commit.

     

I picked at a section of wallpaper and tore it off.  Then a few days later I picked again.  Then, again and well, you get the idea.  Before I knew it Robert and I were tearing pieces off in huge sections.  And then decided to commit.

I pulled all the paper down on Friday and then on Saturday removed all the glue paper.

 

After getting it all off we realized that we could not just paint it – the walls were a mess.  They were never primed prior to the wallpaper – the wallpaper was put directly on the raw drywall and the removal can be damaging to that drywall.  So, I decided to do another faux finish – this time a bit more subtle than the kitchen.  Today I started with the first layer of the plaster stuff I usually use. 

I put up all we have, so now I need to get another box/bucket before I can move forward.

 

I tried my hand at spray painting the awful light fixture – just to hold us over until we actually budget some money to get a new one.  Not sure I like it, but it is an improvement.

It started out like this (above)

And ended up like this (without the glass globe thing, I need to put it back on…)

Still to come is painting the cabinets – the one that will go back in the bathroom and those under the sink.

This one will go back in the bathroom once I give it a facelift-

I think I will paint it then distress it – time will tell….

 

Another great improvement was the addition of 3 bookcases!!  A friend was getting rid of these and I was blessed to get them!

Nothing fancy, but with all our books, having space is very important!!

One will be for the boys Hardy Boys books and their other fun books, the bottom will hold educational fun books – spider books, other bugs, and those fun resource books kids love to read. (still room to spare)

 

The next one is over by the toys for the 2 younger ones to put their books on – the top 2 shelves are for ED to store his Magic Tree House books, and the Box Car Children books we have!  Below on the lower shelves AG will store her books that she loves to sit and look at – our other kids books.

Here are AG (above) and JB (below) checking out their books.

    

 

And here is the last bookcase – this one will be dedicated to  our Good Reads – our living books, the Free-Reads for Ambleside and others we acquire along the way that are just great books!

I am just thrilled to have some organization to my books.  I have never had enough room to spread out and have a system!  I am looking forward to knowing where a book should be instead of looking from book case to bookcase or room to room.  Yeah!