Week 2: Prime the Ugly Room

Week 2: Prime the Ugly Room

This week brings up one of the eye sores, no scratch that, THE eye sore of our home. We affectionately refer to it as The Ugly Room. Never have you seen a room with this much Ug to it. There is just so much wrong with this room. From the Minnesota Gophers striped colors to the horribly done crown moulding.... there just isn't a lot going on for our 3rd bedroom. The day we closed on the House, we ripped down the oak crown moulding. The angles were all wrong and it just butted up piece to piece instead of being mightered. In one word: UGLY.

This room to Tyler and I has always been the Nursery, and the Ugly Room is what we explained to Family. Friday the Ugly Room got dismantled. My Mom was up with my family for a wedding and she made it her mission to make the Ug go away. I think she did a good job. Take a look for yourself:










The color is not all the way gone, but the satisfaction of the fading colors is written all over our faces. Thank you, Mom! We think it is a great start to a new future for the Ugly Room :)

Week 2 Goal: Replace overhead lighting in Laundry Room and Master Bedroom Closet

Week 1: New Mailbox

Week 1: New Mailbox

This week we decided that the leaning mailbox had to go. Week 1's project was wet n' wild, full of rain, holes filling in with water and mud, mud, mud, but we got it done and it looks great. I don't have a before picture, but lets just say that any improvement was going to be 100% better than what we had :) I will run down and take a pic when it stops raining.

Week 1 also brought us the annual planting of flowers. Each year I buy a little more and this year was no exception. I love having lots of color on the back patio and in the front. It just makes everything a little more cheery.

What did you do this weekend?

Week 2 Goal: Paint the Ugly Room (more on that later)

**Updated with Picture of finished mailbox.**

A Re-Introduction

We live in a small town. It is a great community. We moved here to start a family and honestly, it just might not be in the cards for us. While we haven't given up hope, we have really started to enjoy making our house a home; our home. This blog started out with Scrapbooking and rambling with no real purpose.

Today, Tyler asked what if we did one Home Improvement project/thing a week. I thought it was a great idea and all but ran to my Mac. So today, we start our 52 week challenge.

We have already done so much to this house to get it up to snuff, but there is so much more to do. Check back in weekly to see the Week's work and the results!