Busy Bees.

Yes, we realize it has been 4 MONTHS since we've posted anything, but it's not for lack of work. In fact, it's because we've been working so hard that we haven't had time to fool around on the internets.

As some of you may know, we are in the unfortunate position of having to sell our house, as we are moving to be closer to Adam's new job. The ideal situation would be to take our house with us, but it's not so easy when your house is not on wheels.

So we have been scrambling to get the house ready to put on the market, and here are some of the improvements we've made:

Guest Room
Some of you may remember that the room originally looked like this:


With this lovely wallpaper:


We stripped all that off (sadly, it was actually a really old wallpaper that we considered keeping if it was in better condition) and scraped down the ceiling:


And gave everything a fresh coat of paint:


Now inviting guests to come and stay with us isn't such a migraine-inducing proposition! Cleaning up the old hardware adds that extra touch, too:


Office
What was previously Adam's dressing room/catch-all was finally tackled and turned into the office. Again, it was a sad day to have to remove some of these beautiful details, which someone had painstakingly removed from wallpaper with scissors:



Note also the lovely, glossy red trim that has red panels randomly painted around it. The decals are now gone, and since we loved the colors in the guest room we decided to go with a similar scheme:


Yes, the floor was also refinished and looks lovely. We've set it up as the office, and it is now a much brighter, happier place to stare down at a computer.

The Third Floor
The third floor of our house, with two little rooms, was a creepy, dark, and dusty place that we only used as storage but couldn't wait to turn into two cute little rooms (or at least Reagan felt that way). But we cleaned them up, added heat, painted the walls, and refinished the floors:
(Room 1)




(Room 2)

The rooms originally had old linoleum carpets on them (yes, a large sheet of linoleum painted with designs and used like a rug), but they were too old and brittle to save. The floors underneath came out fabulously!


(Hallway)