"Let It Snow!"

Girls' Bedroom

The girls will have a St. Therese inspired room mixed with Rose Petal Place.   It will be a peaceful, little girl room.  We hope to create little corners in the room for each girl to have a reading corner.  In the reading corner, there will be a canopy and a decoration that suits their particular interest at the moment.  I was originally going to do a canopy for the bed, but I saw some pictures that changed my mind.

Canopy reading corner


Bedding with matching curtains

I am trying to reuse some of our curtains, and so far, I just need to purchase curtains for the girls' room and living/dining rooms.

Woodland Theme for the Boys' Room

I don't know why I must have themes for everything.  I can't remember when this started in my life, but I enjoy doing it so much!!!

For the boys' room, the plan is doing a woodland theme.  I hope to find some of Jordan's old antler mounts from his childhood to place on the walls.  I even found these cute rugs.....I can't take the cuteness right now!

Deer rug


There's a bear one too for our little Teddy bear!

Cute decoration for the wall.

Cute decoration

This would make Tobias so happy to see on the wall.  I even found a height chart with a similar theme.

Here is also some bedding that is quite affordable.

Bedding

Update to Flooring

The flooring will arrive in Rochester December 14th......

We have plenty of time to paint then!  :)

Renovation Report: Purchase of Flooring

We found a very good deal on laminate hardwood for the downstairs excluding living room and extra bedroom.  We initially wanted to finish the original hardwood flooring upstairs, but it would just be an extra project to do right now.  It might look more uniform to just extend the flooring in the bedrooms as well.  

Here is the new flooring:

Santo Andre Brazilian Cherry Laminate

You can't go wrong when your flooring is named after a saint!  

Renovation Report: Week One

Jordan is working on patching a few areas, ripping out carpet and kitchen flooring, ordering new flooring for the downstairs and stairwell, and getting the house ready for painting.  We decided to take out the carpet on the stairwell as well, and run the new flooring all the way to the bedrooms.  It's exciting!

We have bought all the paint colors so painting should happen soon!  We decided to try out the paint in the kitchen, but I think we will need a couple of coats to hide the current wall color.

If you didn't get a chance to see our photos from when we first got into the house to look around, here is the link to that post.  Before Photos

This is the beautiful door they left behind (worth almost 400 dollars).  It will replace the old door near the front porch.

Guess what!  We tested it out.  Our big van Spencer fits in the garage!

This is the breezeway/mudroom.  Right now golf turf is covering the floor.  We plan on replacing the flooring with the laminate hardwood that we will use through the downstairs.

My inspiration for this area comes from Pottery Barn.  I remember babysitting for the nicest family in Michigan, and she was always so organized.  She also had great taste in decor.  I hope to find or have Jordan make an organizer for this area to hang coats, place shoes in baskets, etc.

This is the closet/storage area in the breezeway.

Stairs leading to the basement

This is the half finished basement.  The other half is for storage and the utilities.

We didn't get a chance to arrive during daylight, but I will post pictures of the outside the next time we are there.  There is a two tiered deck.  The upper part has a lock for the gate.

All the paint cans!

Welcome to my best friend!

I had a gas stove when I lived in California.  I can't remember what the advantages and disadvantages of a gas stove are, but I will learn quickly.  

Climbing stairs....I am not ready for this!

Testing out the new paint color for the kitchen.

Prairie sage....I hope it looks nice in the end.

Our front porch

The door from the outside that leads to the breezeway

View of our home

I am on the hunt to find more dining room chairs that will match the set left behind.  They are gorgeous!

Happy Anniversary of Tobias' Baptism!

Tobias was baptized in our chapel, St. Philomena Mission.  It was the feast day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patroness of immigrants.  Jordan and I met each other on a young adult retreat in Colorado.  After the gathering was over, there was a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini.  I think that it is neat he was baptized on her feast day.  

What a beautiful baby!  

Happy Baptism Day, big brother!