Showing posts with label Our own DIY project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our own DIY project. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

And its done..Almost

I am sure most of you have already predicted that this will either be about the cows or the house..since that is pretty much what my life has been consumed of. It is a post about the {HOUSE} but hopefully it will be one of the lasts, I am sure your sick of it and so am I.

{Before}

{After}

{After+ a little decorating}

{Before}


{After}
Of course there are alot more things I would like to do, but I think that it will always be that way, so of right now I am content with how it turned out and glad that I have finally gone through some of are last boxes from moving.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Slowly But Surely

I realize that I haven't posted for awhile but this house has sure took up a lot of any spare time, so it looks like that's what I might be writing about for the next coming weeks. Sorry.
We finally got rid of the ugly poo carpet in the house..which I am excited about, there is just something refreshing about the smell of new carpet and paint {not that we are to that point yet in the project but it will be exciting} I have learned alot of new things, take for instance I can now perfatape and mud a house, not that it will probably ever help me out in life again but it does make you feel accomplished. We have one more day of sanding and then we just have to wait for the new windows, molding, paint, carpet, and a few odds and ends.


So this house is nothing fancy, its not big, its not new, but I am very excited to have our own little place. So with that being said this it whats being done to the outside: New shutters on the outside windows, New blinds, New doors and Landscaping {imagine my finger pointing underneath the window because I want 3 bushes right under it} flowers to. A bench would look cute on the porch also and anything else I might decide to add.

The rabbit is slowly dying..I think...and hope...maybe. When we got the car, the passenger side door would only open from the inside, therefore I always had to wait for jason to open my door..now his door wont open, only from the inside, great! Its not like we dont get enough glares or looks in this ugly car but now instead of opening a car like a normal human being you get to shove some one in the hatch of the car, which would be me, in between two HUGE semen tanks {not what you are thinking} that make the shocks that you dont have on the car rub every time you hit a pebble which makes you squeek every where you go and your struggling to even fit in between these, now see if you get has many stares from people! oh and the heater smells like maple syrup when you turn it on, maple syrup!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Extreme Makeover {Rental Edition}

Ahlin Style.

Well almost.
Day 1: phase uno!

Demolition day, rip down, stab eachother with nails, a little fighting, gross bugs!
So this is what are days are going to consist of for the next couple months til this thing is done!
We are moving into my in laws rental and they are letting us fix it up..its fun because its not our money (but we are greatful for that also) we are tackling this room first and then will move on to the rest! Oh happy makeover days! I am also in the process of redoing a dining table. This is going to be fun.

So jason already scrapped off the cottage cheese ceilings but we are also painting the sheetrock we put up and putting up molding, new windows are going in and then the decorating begins!

Look at the wall paper on the wall! I actually kinda liked it.

Here we go first hit of the walls.