Our House

Well, we've owned our house for almost 2 months and we've been living in it for about a week and half. There's been lots to get done, and we are slowly getting there. Just getting the important stuff done and organized before the baby comes (he is due in 30 days!) , and before I am too worn out from being pregnant to do any of it (which it is getting there fast).
As I've posted before, we (Merrill and my parents) re-finished the wood floors. It was a HUGE project that pretty much took the whole month of July. But they look GREAT! I am very happy that it was done, but I'm sure we will never re-finish wood floors again, for many reasons.
I re-finished the shelves in the kitchen cupboards, they were looking pretty worn out and stained and had goopy stuff on them, so I sanded them and put on a finish, so now they look tons better and I feel comfortable in putting my dishes and food on them. I would like to put down new counter-tops, but that is a project that will have to wait till we have some money. Along with a list of things, but they are things that can wait.


Here is our house. This was the picture from the real estate agent. Our grass is now very dead and full of weeds, and has been for months now, and the bushes are bigger. Not sure when this picture was taken, must have been a while ago. But this looks pretty good, so instead of taking a new picture I'm just using this one ;)

Here is our living room before we re-finished the floors:

Here is our living room after we moved in:


And another angle (my camera seems to only take dark pictures):

Here is a before picture of one of the cabinet shelves I re-finished (see how icky):

And after:


Our kitchen before we bought the house:
And after (we got a fridge, replaced the stove top (with my grandma's old one, so much better than what was there), and replaced the dishwasher (the other one was broken), and then all the cleaning we did, not that you can tell from the pic):


The main bathroom (this was before we moved in, it doesn't look much different now, just that there is a shower curtain and towels hanging)( oh, and different floor, in the bathroom and kitchen, which was done before we bought the house):

Darci's room (missing her dresser, there is a pic of that in a previous post):

Here is the dinning room. Nothing fancy, we have our computer desk in there too, which still has stuff piled on it:

Another view, showing the built in cabinet (and Darci's basketball hoop):

Here is a virtual tour of the backyard. With the shadow its hard to see the area still in the sun, but it goes back till the wall and the little hill. There is no fence, the neighbors yard starts at the top of the little hill.



Sorry, no pics of our room or baby's room. they are not picture worthy yet. ;)

Videos of Darci

Here are some videos of darci from my phone. These were taken within the last couple months.

Latest Project

Merrill and I got this dresser from a lady in our ward. They were moving and had a few dressers and other things they were giving away. So, we snagged this from the pile


And my mom and I turned it into this:


This is now in Darci's room. Isn't it so cute! I am so pleased with the way it turned out. It was pretty simple, except we had some issues with the top. There was this blue ink or something on top in a few spots. It was deep in the wood and wouldn't sand out. And it came through 4 layers of paint. And we messed up painting and there were lots of lines from the roller and paint brush. So, we started over on the top, took the paint off, sanded, and put 2 coats of primer to hopefully seal it up. But, the blue came through both layers. I gave up and just continued to paint. And luckily the primer held it from coming through the paint! YAY! So, now it looks perfect. No blue marks and no brush marks!
Oh, and we got the knobs at lowes for $0.85 each and they match perfectly with her bed. :)