Bye Bye Texas Room....Hello Baby Room!!! Our First House Project as a Married Couple!!

Well…we officially finished our FIRST home project as a married couple (well, okay 90% finished thanks to my slacking off and not doing the final paint coats on the wainscoat).  We actually did this project as the Baby’s new room shortly after finding out we were almost 2 months pregnant.  We know it was a little early but it was Labor Day weekend, our family camping trip was cancelled due to the SCORCHING August/September weather, and we finally had a THREE DAY WEEKENED in which we were determined to be very productive!

The room was originally painted the BRIGHTEST, most shocking red when I moved in to the house a few years ago and I had every intention of re-painting it.  That is…until I repainted the other guest room and forgot about that thing called PRIMER.  I ended up having to paint 5 coats to cover up the pirates/dragons/snakes/skulls and whatever else was originally on the wall (not sure how the little 4 year old boy slept in there at night).  So, needless to say after that project was done, the RED ROOM was nowhere to be found on my “To Do” list haha.  The room also had a hideous chair rail that was of a weird shape and stuck straight out that I wasn’t so fond of.

We woke up at 7am that Saturday and both randomly said, “Let’s do a project today!”…for some reason my husband has NO problem waking up early on Saturdays, but when it comes to work days…GOOD LUCK…I’m still trying to roll him off the bed at 7:45 when I leave J.  I’m an early morning person and not so much a night time person (he’s learned that even more since I’ve been pregnant…being tired is the one and only symptom I have) and he is the opposite, he’s a night time person and not an early morning person which will be PERFECT for the baby shifts J. 

Coby drove out to Decatur to borrow all the tools…shout out to my in laws who seriously have every tool any man could ever desire which comes in handy for us…we just pay them back in dinners since I love to cook but it’s too hard sometimes to cook for just 2 people...and then we don't actually have to purchase all the tools ourselves!  We met up at the store and after spending about 3 hours at Home Depot (and our entire paychecks he’ll tell you...he's a little dramatic with not liking to spend dinero but I love him for that!!!) picking out everything and people watching (my favorite thing to do in the Keller/Watauga area) we returned home with all of our supplies and ready to go!  We (meaning he) tore off the chair rail to find 1 random purple stripe across the wall…nice. 

 

Then we primed over the red paint on the top of the wall which took about 3 coats but made the actual painting SO MUCH easier to do!!!!

Then we put up the wainscoat and just as a tip to everyone...buy the pre-cut stuff!  We decided to save money and buy the stuff you cut because we had the tools and hours later we drove back to Home Depot to return it and buy the pre-cut stuff...it saved us HOURS of measuring and everything!!!

 

Then we painted the crown molding in the garage and then put it up (which I LOVE and makes the room pop so much more than it previously did!)...

 

Then the new chair rail to outline the wainscoat

Then the caulking of everything and the painting of the wainscoat (which I’ve slacked off on as previously mentioned and seriously need to finish!)

And then...THE FINAL PRODUCT!!!

And now.....WITH OUR NEW CARPET!!!

It looks pretty dang good and even though it took 2 straight full days of really hard work…it’s fun seeing the end product of our hard work.  We only had 1 set back when our little puppy (featured in one of the pictures) was feeling neglected and came in to visit.  She stepped in the paint tray...we yelled in horror...LIZZIE NOOOOOOOO...which of course scared the crap out of her and she went darting out of the room and through the house running and we had little white paw prints all over the wood floor which I VERY quickly cleaned up and all was well!!

I LOVE being married to a handy man that can fix anything and is not afraid to work hard.  So far he’s repainted a few things for me, helped me tear up my nasty backyard and the even nastier planks the previous people inserted and re-sodded the entire back and side yard and it looks a MILLION times better now (I got that out of him after dating for only 3 months…he’s the BEST!), and he re-did my front yard and stoned my plant bed area so it pops now!!

Anyways, it’s nice to have the project about 90% done in the early stages of pregnancy…not sure I could have handled the paint smell or being on my feet that long while in the later stage of the pregnancy.  We already bought a white crib because I’ve ALWAYS been in love with white baby furniture and we’re going to re-paint it with a base coat (to be determined) and crackle paint…so excited!!  Our plan is to do Pink and Black if it’s a girl, and Light Blue and Brown if it’s a boy (that one could change but the Pink and Black for a girl is set…I’m obsessed!!!).  I have no idea how people go without finding out the sex…no way with the planner that I am that I could handle that…plus if it’s a girl she WILL be in a plethora of pink and not neutral colors and the last thing I want to do with an infant is have to shop for clothes!

Well, that’s all for now…2 blog posts in 2 weeks…I’m on a roll, but then again I just jinxed myself!