Our New Carpet

you can see our newly painted walls and Alex, you can see our new TV (got that for Christmas last year) and green chair in the family room. The front room is missing the piano, coffee table and end tables. We still need a few pieces of furniture to make it complete but that will have to wait. The most important part is the carpet. The walls in the front room will be painted later too since we have worn ourselves out doing all we have so far. It is the summer and we want to just enjoy all that we have accomplished. There is also a picture of the wood floor in the entryway. Hope you like them!!!!

Mother's Day Weekend

Tim worked really hared getting up the tile in the front room. We are going to put down a wood entry from the front door to the kitchen. It was back breaking work, but he hung in there and got the job done.

Below are my flowers from my family. I love them. I haven't gotten flowers in a long time. There was about 100 blooms.

My other Mother's day gift was a call from Alex. He has 7 weeks to go and then he will be home. I know these last few weeks are going to be difficult, especially since his companion is going home the transfer before him... so they have been working on getting his companion ready to go home. So Alex said he requested that his new companion be someone who is ready to work hard. I know that focusing on the work will help the weeks go by faster.

More Home Renovation for Dummies....

So here is the latest.... We have had the wood laminate for a year and we finally decided to put it in the entry way from the garage. When we pulled up the carpet, the concrete was horrible. There were high spots and spots where they added the basement and the concrete was super low. So we used concrete level to try and fix it, but there were still high spots we we borrowed a grinder from a friend and tried to level it better. What a mess. Concrete dust everywhere... and just when we were about finished, there was suddenly smoke everywhere. The smoke alarms went off and so I ran to disarm the ADT alarm. Then we ran around opening windows and then I got a call from ADT. I explained that it was a false alarm and that the fire department wasn't needed. She said she would let them know it was a false alarm, but that they might still come. Fortunately they didn't come. But at that point Tim decided we were done and we would put down the wood and hope for the best! It looks good. Hopefully it is a good job and will last a while.

Finally I think we are done... with these rooms

They could use a bit of embellishments, but other than that... I think we are done! Whew....

Oh and a side note about Alex's room... When he saw the pictures of his room and saw that it was orange.. he said, "I was just kidding about it being ORANGE." Oh I wanted to punch him... but really we are glad that we had to use a color we weren't comfortable with... It caused us to think outside our comfort zone... and I think we did OK with it. Hopefully he will like it... if not... oh well, next time he won't joke about it... or we won't take him seriously.





























The wall is not as yellow as it looks, it is more like the ones above. Lighter, almost pastel, but definitely yellow.

Newest Home Improvement at the Nelson's

We added a shelf to Alex's room. I had planned on putting up shelves on the wall, but after all the work we put into patching all the holes in the walls, we decided a nice stand up shelf would be better. It doesn't have much on it now, but at least Alex will have some where to put some of his stuff when he gets home.

The other pictures are of the kids bathroom. The colors didn't come out looking that great. They are yellow. A nice soft yellow. The pictures look more bright and more greenish. But at least you get the idea. The lighter wall is textured because the original color I picked out was too light for Tim's taste, so we got a little darker color and rolled it with a texture roller over the top. It is much nicer now.... at least we think so. We are also putting that peel sand stick linoleum over the old stuff. We did it in our master bath and the original linoleum is so horrible that anything is better than it was. The peel and stick is quick and easy and looks tons better.

.... next is Marley's room and the floors in the front and TV rooms...... hopefully.....

Alex's room

So here is the story. Tim and I have been working on redecorating our house... mostly we have just painted some of the walls. But since Alex will be home from his mission in 4 months, we decided to redo his room. He had holes in all of his walls from things like a shelf, and a gun rack (used to hold his roleler blades) and a few pictures and things. A lot of the pictures were put up with push pins. And then there were the holes he made with his blow dart gun and his air soft gun. And the walls hadn't been painted in 14 years. So needless to say the room needed a face lift. I thought we could paint it a nice calm blue but decided that since it was Alex's room, he should have a say in the color. Tim said, "as long as he doesn't pick Orange." Well, we asked Elder Nelson and of course he chose the color Orange. At first he said he wanted it left the way it was, but we decided to do what we could before he was home. Since there is no one living in it, it would be a lot easier to paint and redecorate. So now our dilemma was, do we paint it orange like he wanted or just do what we had origionally planned. Well as you can see, we decided to use the orange color, but with a twist. We like the texture painting and so we decided to paint the bottom half orange (textured) and then the top a nice beige. We are putting a chair rail around the room as a divider between the colors. We like it and hope Alex will too. We will be adding new curtains (probably dark brown), a new fan (probably brown too) and some shelves and an orange bed spread. Let us know what you think...