Waiting for time to pass

I've been working on small projects lately and trying to make life a little more routine.




I will try and get some pictures of more projects up soon.
Jenny <3

Kitchen

Two days of intense cleaning and the kitchen is ready to be demolished! Well, soon. For now it is nice and clean for us to live in when we'd like.
Before:



After:



Jenny <3

Colours... Colors? COLOURS!!

With the help of my mother and sister, I was able to pick out colours for the school house.
For our bedroom


For the kitchen


For the living room

For FRRREEEEEEE

Thanks to my parents' generosity, my friend's accommodation and my husband's open mind, we have new light fixtures for the majority of our house. I say "new" but they are actually the lights that were in my parents' house when we moved in a little over ten years ago. They recently decided to replace their lights and gave us the old ones. With a little creativity and a moderate amount of work, they will be exactly want we want and need.
So far I have one ceiling light done and seven of them to go. I have a crazy but exciting idea for the two chandeliers. And we have a pile of outdoor lights, for when the time comes for us to desire some outdoor lighting.
Here is the ceiling light before...

and after

These are the chandeliers

Still more to come!
Jenny <3

Dinning Set

We were given a dinning room table from my parents that I absolutely love! It was my Uncle Brad's so it has great sentimental value. It also is a beautiful antique so it fits in perfectly with our style. It has carved details that make it unique and it has beautiful, HUGE pedestal legs.

(The chairs in this picture are from our Ikea JokkMokk table, they are too tall and make sitting at the table a little uncomfortable! Plus, they don't go with the table either!)
I have been uncertain what to do for chairs, as it did not come with any. Without being able to carry the table to a store to find matching chairs, I was afraid that I would pick out and purchase chairs only to find that they would not match.
My solution, I found chairs that don't match! I decided to find antique chairs that are intentionally mismatched. So far I have three but I am hoping I will find two more for a total of five and look for a bench to help with our space issues. I'll be painting them all white, so they are more uniform.
These are the one's I have purchased and I am so very excited about them!!



More to come!
Jenny <3

Dresser

Carpets are pulled and the house is mostly clean. I had some company last week and am visiting my family this weekend, so I thought it would be best if I spent this week finishing an incomplete job.
Here are the dressers!
Before




After



Jenny <3

Everything Pleasant

Today, I started renovations on the house that Hubby and I will be moving into it in the spring.
There are two really cool things about this house
1) It is the house that Hubby grew up in.
2) It was built as a school in 1928. Hubby's mom and dad renovated it before they got married.

It is the coolest thing EVER!!!
Over the next 6-8 months, we will be fixing it up (no one has lived in it full time for approximately 14 years), and making it into OUR home! I will try my best to document the process so you can see what what we've done.

Jenny <3