Paint, Color, Tile, & Paint

The walls have been sheet-rocked and we've added color! I've loved this gray color for a while. It's called Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore. It seems to go with almost anything. It has a brown undertone and goes well with wood floors too.

 

Here is a look at some of the creative contraptions I had to come up with to trim in all the walls to the ceiling. Let's just say I had to overcome my fear of heights.

 

We stuck with Revere Pewter for all of the hallways and main living areas. But decided to add color in the girls rooms, mudroom, and our room.

 

This is Eme's Room. I would say with this house I have had a couple of Bob Ross moments. You know where he decides to add a tree into his beautiful painting and you think. . . What did he just do, he ruined it! This color was definitely a Bob Ross moment, but once I added the stencil I saw it come to life, and hopefully in the end the room with turn out just as I have imagined. 

I am going to add wainscoting up to about 6' and the upper half will be this stencil.

 

It reminds me of dandelion's in the summer time.

 

 

This is Ashlyn's room color. As soon as I put it on the wall I loved it! It is called Ewing Blue. Ashlyn is my little artist and is always taping her pictures up around the house, sometimes with duct-tape :(.

 

 So instead of constantly getting mad at her we are going to put a chair-rail section up with corkboard that she can hang all of her creations on.

 

The mudroom I decided to go a little wild, but I think it will be fun. We will be making cubbies with a bench on the wall with the stripes, so I wanted to go bold. The cubbies will be white and Travis will be making the benches out of stained barn wood from the yard. I also took this picture from the home show for the organization wall that I want to put opposite of the bench and cubbies.

The Pantry I have not painted and I think that will be done after we move in but I want to put a stencil or wallpaper on the wall like this one.

 

The Master Bedroom...

So I went a little wild and I think this might be a Bob Ross that I need to change. At least on the ceiling. I know my color palette and I think once the crown molding goes up I might be okay with it but it's a little "blue". When I went to the home shows I found the exact pillows that I have bought already. They added green to the palette and it excited me to think of the possibilities of adding lime green accents to this. 

 I ended up buying in the girls bathroom a subway tile with a clear white glass tile. The white glass tile eventually turned blue when I put it up. It was surprisingly pleasant and I loved it! I painted their bathroom white and there are crystal lights that will be going up. Ashlyn just loves sparkly things and I think She and Eme will be excited about the finished bathroom.

 I am thinking about doing a silver stencil but I want to wait until I get more into the room to see exactly where I want to go with it. The hexagon tile was some of the most simple tile to lay especially around the toilet. The cuts around the toilets are the hardest to make, but with this tile it was pretty simple.

 

 

Easton's bathroom. We have kind of been obsessed with the look of subway tile lately, so again we went with a subway tile in white and in a taupe. It looks more like brown but it ended up going well with the Rockport Grey walls. I wish I would have taken a picture of the light fixtures, but I will get that next time. This was really hard tile to lay. It seemed to move quiet a bit on me and I was constantly checking it. Luckily, I had my Dad and Brother Ty there to help keep an eye on my lines for me and cut the tile. They were lifesavers!

 

 

 

 

 

This is the tile that runs through the mudroom, pantry, entry, and hallways. I started laying this tile with Travis' Dad and we were so proud of ourselves. We had worked so hard all day to get it done. We were putting down the last three tiles and we hear Travis pull up and think he is going to be so happy with our awesome job. He walks in and I hear this sigh, not of relief, but of disbelief.

 He walks in and informs us that the tile that we were laying was bowed. What?

 We got up and checked it and yep, it definitely was crooked. We hurried as fast as we could before all the tile set up, to hurry and straighten out the bow in it. We definitely were not happy campers, but with a tender mercy from the Lord, our tile had not set up yet and we were able to move it all so that the lines were straight. I guess when you are on your knees all day you forget to get up and check to see what it looks like ;) Just for anyone laying tile. The right way is to find the center of the floor and mark it. Create an X and then lay off of that. I knew this but I thought I knew a faster way. Apparently I didn't.

 

 

These are some of the projects in the works.

 

Kitchen

 

 

 Master Shower & Bathroom Tile

(This is a water proofing barrier that we put down in the shower)

 

What a Year!

Wow! I can't believe I'm saying, "What a Year!" Time has literally flown by. . . I took a little break from the blogging world, but I knew that I would regret not journaling some of the most recent things that have been happening in our little families life. I thought I would just narrow it down to the top 4. 

 

1. We had a beautiful little girl in February, and named her Emeline Lorraine Eborn.

She makes all of us smile and never seems to cease to brighten our days! She is almost 7 months, sits up on her own, and has recently loved eating dinner with us as a family.

2. We started building our "Forever Home." (or at least we hope to stay put for a long while ;))

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3. Raspberry Season has come and gone.

We spend every August in Bear Lake "farming" raspberries I guess you could say. Our kids love the time spent at Grandma and Grandpa Eborn's and the fun activities that the Bear Lake Area has to offer.

4. The "Old Farm House" is for sale/rent.

 

Create your own free slideshow design Now that the Farm House is up for sale and ready to go our main focus is on the new house. Our plans are to be in there by Thanksgiving, fingers crossed! Walls are up and it is our turn to do all the finish work. The fun has begun and we have started designing rooms and little areas. I have been tiling this past week and Travis has been finishing up the electrical. We have the paint on most of the walls, (pictures to come soon) and ideas are accumulating in my mind of what I want it to look like.

Our Weekend Off!

       So we have to laugh about our life. When we get a weekend off for UEA break we don't go deer hunting, we don't go to Disneyland, we don't go on a fabulous vacation... we work on the house :). Maybe someday our weekends off we'll be more vacation oriented, but for now we like the progress that is taking place around the farm.  On a fun note we did have a bonfire with friends, which was rather nice. Here you go, our successes of the weekend.

 

Before Adding Trim

After Adding Trim

 

Travis worked all weekend and put up this awesome trim. We decided to go with the pattern that matched the inside window trim. It is pretty basic but it just seems to finish off the exterior of the house perfectly, and look even the grass we planted is coming in, YEAH!

 

 

 Travis has a little pyro in him, and one day after work he came home to tell me he was going to start one of the piles on fire. I just shook my head and said, "Okay." Five minutes later he calls me on the phone telling me I better come outside. I told him I'd be out, but I didn't hurry very fast and then he calls again. You need to come out now! I look out the window and the flames were not very far from our barn, so I hurried out to help. I began spraying the barn off with water and just watched the steam coming off of it from the heat. For a minute I thought, I should just call the fire department but Trav reassured me that it would be okay. So luckily without catching the barn on fire we were able to get rid of the biggest pile of junk!

 

 We thought afterwards how funny it must of been to watch us out there for the first few minutes scrambling to keep the fire calm. There were people slowly driving by checking it out, and there was also a little crowd gathered at the post office watching the theatrics take place. I wish I would of taken a picture of the first few minutes, but we were occupied with spraying the pile down.

 

 

We have been slowly working on scraping all of the manure out of the animal shelter so we can park things for the winter. Even though there is still a lot to do it is actually quiet enjoyable to work in the barnyard.  Travis has been a champ as I have been getting bigger and bigger with pregnancy he has been tackling a lot of projects on his own. I sure do love that man!

As for the project I've been working on... The baby's room! I was able to get her crib quilt top done this last week. I've been rushing to get it done before the holidays hit and things become really crazy. I just need now to send it off to the quilters and get it bound!

I have really loved plums and greens lately. It is not very nursery like, but I love the colors.

 

I've been trying to use what I already have for decorations and since I had some fabric left over and some canvases that I didn't work out on another project, I made these. To spice them up a little I think I am going to glue buttons or wood letters to them and hang them on the wall. I'll keep you posted on the progress.

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words!

Last week I talked about how we had been working with the neighbor to get the field mowed down and cleared.  It is looking much better. Here is the before pic from last week.

 

And this is what seven horses have done in a week. We are looking to talk to the fire department on burning the pile you see on the right and 2 other piles that look something like the one below. We are going to have one heck of a hot dog roast when it comes time.

 

 

This was the pile from the old animal barn that we knocked down.  It was fairly dangerous, so it was a must-knock-down. Travis has been working hard walking around the lot picking up and condensing junk piles. It will be so nice to get rid of them soon.  They give me a little anxiety :)

 

 

Now for some more before and after pictures that I have promised:

 

This is the before of the Master Bedroom. This room was quiet easy since they had recently remodeled it. We just touched up the paint, added a fan, and shampooed the carpet. We did add a wall to the right for the master bath, still leaving a large enough master bedroom.

 

 

 

This is the after. I thought about buying all new bedding before we moved in and then I came to the conclusion that what we had would work perfect with the brown walls. I also decided to cover the windows because they are a little odd shaped.  This makes for the best Sunday napping, because it quite and separated from the rest of the house.

 

 

 

This is the dining room. This room is located off of the side porch to the south and has some really amazing trim work. The people living here before us were from the Marshall Islands and liked bright colors.

 

 

 

 

We just toned the color down a bit and left the light they had because it was perfect for the area.  Travis made the table before we moved here.

 

 

 

We took out the old stove and some tile flooring that went half way up the wall and replaced it with a buffet (to the right) that we found on KSL for $125. It worked well because we were unable to replicate the old paneling were the stove was.  We will just sell the buffet with the house when it comes time.  We also took off 2 layers of crooked flooring in this room and this floor was left underneath. 

 

 

 

This is a before picture of Easton's room. Sometimes when I look back at the pictures I think, "how did we ever think this was going to be livable?" A lot of things can change in a little amount of time.

The room is very long and narrow and in order to have this room considered an actual bedroom we had to add a closet. So we just added a walk in closet to the left.  We also added heat to this room.

 

 

 

Easton loves Star Wars. I am not a fan so much, but I thought we could get it out of his system before we moved on to the next house. We put spaceships and stars on the ceiling. Then I saw on pintrest how they make pictures with vinyl and craft paper so I created these to hang around the room. The frames could always be changed and updated to whatever Easton is into.

 

 

I am still looking for a pillow and a throw to brighten up his bedding, but it will come.  (However Travis is anti-bed pillow)

 

 

 

This is the playroom before. The interesting thing about this room is that it had small hornets nests throughout. I think they were able to get in through the unfinished roof.  We added the closet and a new roof took care of the hornets and water getting into this room.

 

 



This room was painted by the Elder's Quorum in our new ward. They wanted to help us out with something before we moved in, so I gave them a paint brush. They did a really nice job and we were thankful for their help!

 

 

 

This is the guest bedroom. I don't have a before pic of this room because for the longest time it was bolted shut. I guess this is where they kept a lot of their guns. This room had brown paneled walls from the 70's, which I am sure you all still remember. If you look at the doorway into the bathroom, it use to go all the way to the kitchen, but we put a wall there and gave the guest bedroom a bathroom for convenience.

I still am in search for a white ruffled bedspread. I saw one at TJ Maxx the first of the summer and haven't seen one since. I am still waiting to find exactly what I want...but at a good price ;)

 

 

This bedroom set was actually Travis and I's first set. It was random pieces that we had picked up or had from before we were married that we painted black. I still remember Travis showing me his nice walnut colored sleigh bed that we could use, and then him accidentally backing up over it with the truck one day.  I new then I was about to marry someone that could control his temper, because he did very well one that occasion and many sense. Luckily we were able to put it back together and gave it a coat of black paint and it is still functioning perfectly today.  I picked up the curtains at Downeast. They are actually shower curtains. They work perfectly to block out the light and give the privacy you need.  I want to cut them in half and sew them so there can be one on each side, but then I got to thinking what if I decide to use them in a different house, so I am still debating.



 

This is the guest room sink, behind it is the toilet and walk in shower.  This bathroom we converted from a 1/2 bath to a 3/4 bath by adding a shower.   These funny masks were part of Travis' contribution to decorating when we got married. He said he bought them at a yard sale a long time ago and they have actually grown on me. One day I would like to put them in an office.

 

 

 

And this is what brings us the most JOY! Our kids learning and loving country life like we did growing up. Having room to run around, things to explore, and driving the tractor with Dad are some of small things that they get to enjoy in our little piece of Paradise.