Desperado..... :)

Why don't you come to your senses...

This song would play in my head every time I stepped foot into this room.

 

I couldn't do it. I COULD NOT live another minute in this ugliness.

I don't even care if it's going to be demoed in a matter of weeks.

My new shower curtains were just sittin there starin me in the face...

begging to be hung up:)

 

So I grabbed my trusty glue gun, a bolt of fabric that I had in my hoarder
fabric pile and......fixed that mess!

 

 

Yeah that's right. I stinkin hot glued that fabric to the walls!!

The fabric is 54" wide and I hung it horizontally so I wouldn't have any seams!

Score!

The hubby trimmed the top and bottom with some scrap wood.

 

 

LOVE this shower curtain:)

 

 

How adorable is that perfectly worn orange stool!! :)

Just one of the many fab finds I brought home from Junk Bonanza back in March:)

 

The hubby hung this cutest of lights! Another Junk Bonanza goodie:)

 

 

 

So there is one room in this entire house that feels put together.

Because just right outside the bathroom door.... chaos:(

 

 

Yeah it's a mess... but that means progress!!
And that makes this girl HAAAAPPY!!!

Crazy.... :)

So are you ready for the bathroom reveal??

Yeah, me too.

But this is as good as it's going to get for now.

Why you ask? Oh let me just pan out a little and show you....

 

 

Phase 1 reno has begun!! I stepped out for about an hour and came home to this!!

 I knew the reno was

going to be starting soon, I just didn't think THIS soon!!!

 

 

 

Ok and truth be told- LOOK at this hideousness!!!!!

This first coat of paint had me in full on hysterics:(

What the? What the what? What. in. the. world. was. I. thinking??

Clearly I wasn't.

(I won't even enlarge the pic for you. Uh huh. It's that bad.)

 

 

The hubby said what he always says-

I told you so!!  We'll fix it:)

So I decided to wallpaper this bathroom, but now that

the kitchen reno is in full swing, it doesn't make sense to cute up

the bathroom that's going to be undergoing a reno too. So wallpaper

is on hold for a bit. And so is my sanity.

I honestly feel like I'm going crazy and I'm one bad decision away

from pulling a Britney!

 

 

So here's where we're at. The current kitchen is on the left. After being in this house for a while now,

we realized it made waaay more sense to move the kitchen to the right, where there were these

two bedrooms. It's just bigger,brighter and has better windows.

(totally busted Chase checkin out the "lighting") hee hee hee!!!

 

 

How cute was this original wallpaper!!??

 

 

And just LOOK at those fab (and abused) original ceilings!!

 

 The little door on the right goes into the (now defaced by hideous paint) bathroom.

 It will be filled in and the

cute little door will be used upstairs:)

 

 

Those stinkin lights are EVERYWHERE!!!

Here is the hubby salvaging the most beautiful doors that

will become our new master bedroom doors!

(and he too is checking out the "light") haahaaaaa!!!

 

And no post would be complete without L.B.

Doesn't his face say it all??

 

 

It's a little crazy around here!!!
Craaaazy GOOD!!

Oranges Poranges..... :)

There's a chance I'm going crazy. I blame the oatmeal walls around here.

I mean, I love to eat me some oatmeal! Juuust don't want to live in it!!

I've been telling my sis that I'm realizing I have this little hidden down deep

love of orange. I found this blanky and pillows whilst perusing

the aisles of TJ the other night.

 

 

I love them:) They give that perfect punch of color to all my green:)

 

I ordered a swatch of this fabric. I'm thinkin I might use it for my living room?  

 

So since I can't paint anywhere else in the house yet, I'm going to tackle our

insane asylum downstairs bathroom .

 

 

I mean come on! doesn't this bathroom scream adorable?!

No. It doesn't. It just screams.

 

I found this Behr color called Desert Coral,

and I'm gonna go for it!

 

I ordered this shower curtain from Pottery Barn. I think the black and white

stripes might calm down the orange?

 

 

Pics of the finished bathroom next week! 



Exposed!!..... :)

So yesterday afternoon, the hubby and I were just sittin around bored. Reeeally bored.

Then we got to thinkin....

How cool would it look to expose the original wood walls that had been

covered up for forever??

 

 

So we moved furniture.....

 

 

And got to it!!

 

 

The original walls had been covered over with sheetrock.

I knowww!! What in the worrrrld!

I won't go into the shame of covering a board and batten house with stucco!!!

Uh huh. That's this house:(

 

 

Aaaanyway.... look at that beauty!!

 

 

All we did was remove the sinful sheetrock, wipe that fab wall down with

a damp rag, and let all that beauty come on back:)

 

 

 

 

 

Now I need to deal with that boob light....... :(

 



This house has surprises around every corner. And in walls.

And in ceilings!! Juuust look what the hubby found after cutting

a hole in the ceiling!!!

Beautiful beadboard ceilings that some yahoo- wait for it....

COVERED OVER.

I. just. don't. get. it??!!!

Reclaimin' it.... :)

Awww! What an awesome blurry pic Dorie!!

I wish I could say that I totally meant to do that to enhance the ugliness but

sadly....I didn't. It's just my pre- shoot fly shoot photo skills and

the only pic I had of the mess that found

it's way to my dining table every. stinkin. day:(

Seriously. We would eat our meals around all this techno crap.

 

 

Then came Sunday, and I'd had it with that nonsense!

I decided to carve out a little space for a desk where our two fab

recliners sit.

 

 

I moved one recliner to the other side of the couch and brought out

this little sweet desk that I had in the guest bedroom.

 

Went and did a little shopping in the garage and found these

most cutest of shutters (that I used for a headboard in DP) and hung them

on the sides of the window.

Hello COLOR!! (and my fav at that!)

 

 

Our house sits on our lot waay to one side, and oddly close to our neighbor (who I love btw:)

So I hung this picture to kinda add a little privacy:)

Ok, and for cuteness too!

The little table under the window houses the printer:)

 

 

And HELLO!! I get my table back!!

 

Ok, how cute are these dish towels I found at Target for $2.99!

They had others that had strawberries on them and others with asparagus! Sooo cute!!

The water glasses are from FOUND:) and my mama made me the placemats:)

 

 

While taking these pics, I noticed the resident photo bomber....

 

 

Oh my goodness his face makes me want to eat pancakes!

Did that make any sense to anyone? Anyone??

Ups and downs....:)

Oooooh boy! We finally are officially and legally the proud owners of our dream house.

Long story- owner wanted to do a 1031 land exchange and wanted us to

wait on actually purchasing the house till he was ready. So we rented from him. Then the house didn't appraise...blah blah blah...

But we were NOT going to give up on this ole gal!

So finally on Thursday afternoon, she became ours:)

And by Thursday night we were doing this....

 

 

Bye bye nasty dirty carpet!! We always wondered how the stairs actually returned into the house.

You see this house was made into two separate apartments. The downstairs being one and the upstairs another.

The door to the left of the front door leads to the upstairs:)

 

Tricky! Underneath the carpet was some real cool handiwork!

 

 

Problem solved! The second to the last stair has this cute angle

that makes the return into the house!

 

 

The door on the left is the door that leads to the inside of the house.

It had been closed and locked since 1975!

The brown door is the front door of the upstairs apartment

that opens to the front porch.

That will become a window:)

But holy beautiful green original painted stairs huh?!

This house was MEANT to be mine!!

I'm really thinking of leaving them in all their chippy glory:)

 

 

Theeen, off to the Pasadena Flea Market on Sunday.

Holy unbearable hot weather batman!!

(you gotta love this pic with that lady's arm coming out of my head!!)

It was sooo hot and sticky I couldn't think. Or shop:(

I did however run into my pal Christian and bought a fab bag made

out of an old grain sack that I forgot to take a pic of!

 

 

The sweet hubby that he is, took me to this magical place in Huntington Beach.

 

 

Uh huh. Flip flop goodness for days.

They really are the best in flippy flops:)

Rio didn't believe me.

Till now. She's hooked:)

 

 

Design your own. Yes please! White with green straps

topped with a green rhinestone:)

 

 

Oh, and I'll just mention that it's 9:30 and I'm

blogging from Starb's. The wi fi at the beach house we're

stayin at aint so fab:(

(yes, that's Rio's eyebrow totally photobombing my pic:)

 

 

So that's the ups and downs for the week!

All ups really:)

We'll be sadly saying goodbye to the beach on Thurs, but happily saying

hello to our house and hammers that await us at home!!