Nesting has definitely kicked in...

Due to some lovely kidney stones that my body has decided to collect, I have been stuck at home for the past week. Fortunately, my kidney stone situation coincided loosely with the completion of the final remodeling projects in the house, so I have been putting everything back. Finally! I started to work on the nursery, but those pics will have to wait until after the shower this weekend. It's still pretty bare in there. Plus, I'm waiting on the quilt, crib skirt, valances, prints for the walls, etc. So I want to wait until it's a bit more complete.

However, I have finally had time to work on a lot of my projects that have been set aside. Eventually, I am going to create a scrapbook with all of these pictures. I've started collecting them in a folder on my laptop. But I've decided to share some here too. Here we go...

Living Room Before (Previous Owners):

Living Room Midway (Us): 

Living Room After:

 
I had to angle the camera down a bit for the after photo because the light was creating a glare. Plus I wanted to show off the 115 year old hard wood floors that were refinished. The pictures on the wall and the curtains are the same as in the "mid" picture, though. There is some discoloration on the floor in this room, so we had to get an area rug. The dining room and entrance will not have large rugs, though. I might cover the throw pillows on the couch, but that's not a priority right now because they don't totally clash.

The coffee table does not fully match the room, but it has major sentimental value. My husband's father was a hobbyist woodworker, and he made the table. He was killed in a car accident 4.5 years ago, so things like this are important to us to display.

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Next up is the upstairs bathroom. This is the one room that has been done for almost 2 years, but I still am pleased with how it turned out. We did not want to get rid of the blue tile because it's still in decent shape (and would be expensive to replace) so I had to work around it.

Upstairs Bathroom Before (Previous Owners):

Upstairs Bathroom After:

 

 

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The last thing I'm going to post about today is the window seat in the dining room. This is the project that I've been working on for the past two days, when I am able to sit at the sewing machine.

This is what the window seat looked like when we purchased the house, with red walls in the dining room -- right next to the seafoam walls in the first living room pic above -- you can actually kind of see it on the edge of the picture. Needless to say, it was not a good color combination! These two rooms open right into each other, ugh. Anyway, here's the original seat:

When we first moved in the house 3.5 years ago, we painted the living room the rich brown you see above. The dining room was painted a light neutral green, to balance the dark, rich color in the living room. Here is what the window seat looked like for a few years:

   

While working out the details for the various renovations, we decided to open the kitchen into the dining room. We did not want to have a rainbow of colors in all of these various rooms, so we decided to keep a cohesive color scheme. The living room is browns and blues. We decided to paint the dining room and kitchen a light blue color. The accent colors are dark browns and silver/blues. So, of course, I needed to change up the pillows on the window seat. I decided to make new covers for some pillows that we already owned. (So much cheaper that way, and we can get exactly what we want.)

Here are the before and after pictures of the throw pillows:

My husband and I are going to build a custom cushion for the whole window seat, rather than using the chair cushions tied together as you see in the "mid" picture above. 

In the next installment of nesting/remodeling/home projects, I will show the painted and refinished dining room table and chairs as well as before and after pictures of the dining room. :)