Around the [new] house

Despite my love affair with Pinterest, I'm going to attempt to keep this blog from turning entirely into a home improvement blog. That being said, I have a million projects in mind, and I'm hoping to chronicle most of them here in case anyone is interested for some reason.

The new house

On October 19, 2012, Charming and I closed on our first home together - a 1940 colonial with 3 bed/2.25 baths (ok, 2 functioning baths and a rough-in for a third in the basement if we choose to finish it) in a lovely neighborhood just north of DC. It's a wonderful, well-kept, murder-free old home, and it's pretty much a blank slate for anything we want to do with it. I am absolutely the impatient type, so I've been working on it literally since day one.

Projects so far

The Kitchen

• Oh God, that kitchen
  Even before we moved in, I knew the kitchen was going to be the first project. 
• So I got to work. In heels.
  And started ripping down wallpaper. 
• Then I turned my fridge into a chalkboard.
  And it was amazing.

The Bedroom

• I refinished and painted an old dresser
  And fell absolutely in love with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. 

The Bathrooms

• I painted the main floor bathroom purple.
  One down, one to go. 
• And then after lots and lots of stalling, I painted the upstairs bathroom gray
  (But still very similar in style to the downstairs bathroom... oh well)