Sun Room Complete!

The sun room is done!! We were really good weekend warriors and finished this whole room.  A reminder where we started...

The day we bought the house

How it has looked for the past 9 months..

We bought a ton of carpet tiles to lay down over the terracotta floor.  We decided this would be a good option since this is an indoor/outdoor room.  It's the only good way out to the deck and the yard, so it will get a lot of traffic.  This way, we can replace tiles as needed rather than having to replace installed carpet.  We also liked that the tiles won't damage the original floor in case we ever want to go back to that.

Ready to start!

We marked out the center of the room, laid 4 tiles in the middle, then worked our way out.  We ended up with A LOT of tedious cuts along the edges since the room is not exactly square.  Luckily, I am married to an architect and a perfectionist who pulled out his T square and carpenter's square to make perfect cuts (yes, literally).

And, drum-roll....

View from the kitchen looking in

I'm still not really sure what to do with the hideous A/C unit.  We do use it in the room, but something needs to be done with it.  That's for another day though! The squares photographed kind of funny.. you really can't see much of a variation in the squares. Here's a close-up of the pattern:

BUT, the big test? Did Moses like it? We'll let him decide :)

Sun Room Continued

We decided we would paint the sun room the same color as the kitchen to give the whole thing a better flow.  We really like the color, and I actually didn't really mind the floor, but Brent really wanted a room in the house that had carpet.  We had an estimate done for installation for just that room, but it was way too much.  I got online and found some carpet tiles on improvements.com that I really love! This will be our project next weekend!

Moses really loves it too! He will go sit on this one little square since it really is the only carpet in the house- I promise you'll have some more soon bud!

We also had about 20 paint cans still in the sun room that we had to get rid of.  We really wanted a good way to keep the paint, so I decided to put all the leftovers in mason jars.  I think they look so pretty! And they take up about 1/100th the space.

Be sure to check back soon!! (I mean it this time..)

 

It's Been Way Too Long!

I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted! I have a list ten items long that I need to write updates about! This could take a little while to catch up, but I will get started with a few quick ones...  

Remember that lovely "storage shed" that the previous owners left? Here it is:

Really?! Does this really count as a storage shed? What can I put in there.. trash?? The doors were missing and it would maybe fit one bicycle.  We were sick of living with our sun room in this state:

so embarrassing...

So we decided it was time to invest in a new shed.  We found some local guys online that would come build the shed on-site in less than a day.  They did such a wonderful job and it cost less than getting one from Home Depot or Lowe's.  Check out their handiwork!!

Beautiful!

Wonderful built-in shelving!

Needs a little landscaping!

Brent has already been working on the backyard as you can see a little bit in this picture. We will obviously be planting some shrubs around the foundation of the shed, but we l-o-v-e it!  A little shop-vac action, and the sun room is almost ready for human use! We are almost done painting (here I am with my painting helper close by).

Ready for Brent to cut in!

Now that there is actually room in this room, we had a place to FINALLY sand the stained wood doors from the den.  We have had them sitting in this room since MARCH. Awful. So we took them out on the deck and tried to give the stain stripper a go.

It took us all of about 30 minutes to give up on this project! We had three doors to do, and between the stripping, sanding, priming, and painting, it was clearly going to take us about 17 weekends to complete this project.  SO, we called some trusty painters to do them for us.  $150 and 4 and a half hours later, and the doors were done and beautiful.  These things cost an easy $300 each new.

We also had to paint the inside of this closet.. Here is before (ew)

 And after:

This one is a little blurry cause I just stuck my hair in the paint for the fifth time...

 Amazing what a can of paint can do! So I think I will end this first marathon post here. There's a lot more where this came from though, so stay tuned! :)