One Thing at a Time

For those of you that have been following, you will remember that a few months ago I purchased a few chairs to go with my dinning room table. This week I began refinishing them and I am getting more and more excited about them. I still have many coats and another chair to do, but I am on my way to a new dinning set.
Before



During



The after will come when I am done!
Jenny <3

Working on it

Things are coming together slowly.
We've decided that we need all new windows and siding, so we are waiting to figure out what those are going to cost before we go forward with the rest of the renos.
Since I needed something to do with my time, I started working more on the master bedroom.
I reupholstered a headboard and recovered a roller blind. I am really happy with how they turned out and I am looking forward to when we have all of our newly refinished furniture here to match.

Jenny <3

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