NEW YEAR NEW FLOORS

Happy 2016!

So Excited to be sharing my first post of the new year and boy o boy it's a big one!

Over the holidays while I was pouring over photos of everyone's beautiful Christmas decor on Instagram and blogs my home was in a state of complete disaster. 

My husband and I decided that winter break was the perfect time to replace the flooring in our ENTIRE main floor. He had vacation hours to use, I was off from babysitting for two weeks, and our kids were out of school to help (free labor).

Here are some before shots so you can see all the glorious forms of flooring we were dealing with.

 

We had light colored carpet in my craft room, dining room and family room. Our kitchen had light/stained vinyl flooring. Our entry hall and half bath were hardwood, and our mudroom had another type of wood laminate. Yep, that's four different types of flooring.

My husband and I looked at several flooring options and finally decided on a hand scraped wood laminate. We ordered it at Best Laminate (it was the same exact flooring carried at a name brand store, but less expensive). 

We worked one area at a time.

-Move out furniture

-remove old flooring and baseboards

-lay new flooring

-move on to next room

etc. etc. etc.

Here are some shots during the process.

 Did I mention the million of staples that had to be removed.

 Yes at one point we had a toilet in our kitchen.

Since the baseboards were off and we had some nice weather they all received a fresh coat of paint.

I have to say that my husband is the hardest worker I know. He worked from early morning to late at night on the floors with myself, my dad or our kids assisting him and sometimes all on his own. He had all the flooring installed in a week which was great because all the dust and chaos was really getting to me.

We are in LOVE with the new floors. 

You may have noticed that I also made some other changes to our house. Some spaces received a new coat of paint and we've added some new furniture as well. I'm hoping to post a more detailed look at each room soon.

Thank you for coming by!

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Ikea Tarva dresser makeover

I have been on the hunt for a dresser since I made over my daughter's room back in January. I searched Craigslist and our local thrift shops, but everything I liked was way too expensive especially for second hand. Then I saw this Ikea dresser hack on Pinterest.


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I knew instantly that it was just what her room needed. My husband and I made the short trip to Ikea and picked up a Tarva dresser. After he assembled it, it looked like this.

I gave it a nice coat of primer and white paint.

I used this FolkArt metallic gold paint on the base of the dresser and added the same knobs from Menards as the inspiration dresser. 

Before and after

I am in love with how this dresser turned out. 

I also added some new artwork that my daughter picked out to finish off that side of the room.

Since her room reveal we've added some new accessories to the other side of her room.

I found the coral bean bag chair on clearance at Target for $9.99 and the gold HELLO pillow is from Hobby Lobby.

You can see the entire room reveal here.

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