Upcoming projects
Hi friends, last night I was wondering if I ever mentioned on here what I have in upcoming projects. So I thought I’d let you know.
Right now the biggest one will be our downstairs flooring. I don’t think I talked on the blog about the fact that we had some water leakage in the kitchen that caused the floor to buckle and swell everywhere right before Christmas. I was so upset because I truly love our floor. It’s 18 year old Armstrong laminate and it’s served us really well. I have always loved light colored wood. It’s been in style in Europe for a long time and I can say I really have never been sick of it, even when everyone went with the dark wooden floors. Our light colored maple look flooring has always hidden the dirt really well and I never regretted getting it. One odd fact is that when we built/bought this house, the installers put the flooring in wrong and it had to be redone. Brand new floors had to be ripped out. Crazy!
blue throw HERE | pom pom throw HERE | fur pillows HERE | chandelier HERE| similar curtains HERE | I painted the art but you can find similar art HERE, HERE and HERE | blue and ivory pillows HERE | tulip chairs HERE | similar glass table HERE | settee is vintage from an auction and I can’t find one similar anywhere | wood bead tassel DIY HERE
Replacing our laminate flooring
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Since we have a pretty open floor plan and the same flooring is in the entire downstairs this will be a huge project and something that I’m definitely not looking forward too which is why I really would like to hire someone to do the job. This project includes taking out our gas stove, fridge and toilet and I don’t want to do it myself. Gas connections scare me to death.
I filed an insurance claim before Christmas and the insurance is paying a part of it. I haven’t made a move with the flooring though because I want the weather to get nicer first so the cutting can easily be done outside and so we have more room in the garage to store the furniture. This entire process is getting me all stressed out.
One thing I do know though is that it will be light maple flooring again, I just didn’t decide on the material yet. I’ve found really nice maple wood look tiles but they are just too cold and I can’t afford heated tiles. Way too expensive!
So maybe we’ll go with wood this time or high end vinyl.
throw HERE | similar black and white fringe pillows HERE | similar jeans pillows HERE and HERE | similar table HERE | candle HERE | disco ball HERE | rug HERE | star burst HERE | similar mirror HERE | similar pouf HERE | similar coffee tables HERE | similar sofas HERE | similar lamps HERE and HERE | similar black lamp shades HERE
During the flooring project I’d like to also tackle the stairs which are still unfinished and yucky. I just don’t know what and how I can get it done with my crazy young cats and kids. Staining the stairs might not be a good idea.
Our daughter’s room
Next or maybe first is my daughter’s room and this one just gets me super upset. Her and I have been arguing over this for weeks now. To me this is a serious case of first world problems because I think her room is perfect and she is acting like a spoiled brat and is insisting she doesn’t like the light walls, paint by numbers and rug and wants something completely different.
rug HERE | duvet HERE | rug HERE | throw from HomeGoods | bed tutorial HERE | similar headboard HERE | similar bed HERE or HERE | my Ikea home decor post HERE | chair HERE | similar throw HERE | lava lamp HERE | downloadable artwork HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE | curtains HERE | pink pillows HERE | colorful diamond pillows from Ikea Germany |  lamps HERE | shades from Target not available anymore | similar greek key pillow HERE | light HERE or similar light HERE | desk Ikea HERE or similar desk HERE
Can you believe that she doesn’t even want the beautiful rug anymore. That one gets me really upset because let me remind you, she picked it a little under a year ago. And now has short term memory loss about it.
Puberty is approaching fast and I’m pretty sure that we will have arguments about her room consistently from now on. I’m also convinced that she tries to achieve the complete opposite of what I like.
Since I painted my son’s room dark green I have agreed to paint her room dark teal because that’s what she wants. Deep down I’m cringing!!!
How can she not think her room is awesome anymore? What happened?
expanding the cat enclosure
{click HERE for my enclosure post, I need to fix this post yet too because some of the photos show up twice and I don’t know how to fix it without breaking Pinterest}
And another project I’m planning on doing when the weather is nicer is to expand our cat enclosure for the two little young crazy cats we have. I think they would really enjoy it if I’d run the tunnels up the fence more into our yard. But first my husband has to secure or replace some of the fence posts that have become lose.
I’m also getting a new door lock for our front door and might want to replace our front door too. I can’t stand handing out keys to so many pet sitters all the time and thought it was time to have a lock with a code. Can’t wait to see how that will work for us.
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i love her room, too, but i can see dark teal working really well with that rug and maybe she will love the rug again! and the floors…. i would be putting that off, too! eeek!
I totally agree! The dark color would be amazing with that rug!
Now she might pick something completely different. Lets see 😉
Now we are going to try out swatches of all kinds of different colors. Yellow, blue and teal…so lets see 🙂
Yeah, kids will send you over the edge. With my own daughter, we compromised on one dark purple wall with three Andy Warhol prints like these.
Gray comforter and we’re done.
Yes they sure can. I had Andy Warhol prints in my room too as a teen. So fun
I love your daughter’s room, too! When we redid our daughters room she later confessed she didn’t like her light blue wall color and wanted something darker. She didn’t tell me then cause she didn’t want to hurt my feelings. By the way her room is still light blue, lol.
Awww that is so nice of her though. My daughter doesn’t care about that. She says whatever comes to her mind LOL. “I’ll help you paint though mom” is what she said and that might not be very helpful at all 😉
Oh boy, I can relate! I haven’t done a super huge redo of either of my daughter’s rooms, but smallish things like buying rugs (not super expensive, but still, expensive enough), new bedding, etc. and it seems like a few months pass and then they want new, new, new! So for her bat mitzvah, I agreed to a big redo, new paint, new bed, new artwork etc., but told her this one is it. Any new changes from here on out will be on her dime. We’ll see how long that lasts, but hopefully mot thing will stick and she’ll just want to change up the smallish things.
And I agree with the others, maybe once the teal goes up, it will give her room a new feel and she’ll be happy with the rug again.
My daughter agreed to chip in and buy some things form her piggy bank money which is nice and she is already pretty good at making financial decisions and is tight with her money. So I know this is something that is really dear to her heart because she is willing to spend her own money.
Ahh, the to do list never ends! I’d love to replace my front door too but the one I’d love is about 2K, guess I’ll be saving for a bit. Deep breaths on the daughter debates. Mine is 17 and heading off to college in a few months but the teen years definitely brought out a few occasions where I wanted to ring her sweet neck!
Oh yes! The doors I’m in love with are all way too much money.
Sounds like lots of big projects on the horizon. And maybe you’ll love her room even more when you are done. (And hopefully she’ll love it, too, and keep for years to come.)
Her room is gorgeous. You did such a beautiful job .
I have long given up arguing with the style of my daughter’s room. I let her design it. Most of the time it is a total opposite from what I envisioned…
On an other note, if you are selling the rug I want it😘😘😘
LOL the rug is staying 😉 We compromised