Bathroom: After

Our bathroom is DONE!  And 2 days ahead of schedule.  :)  Doug did an awesome job, this was a huge undertaking.  I'm sorry I wasn't able to help more.  My jobs consisted of painting, clean up, food, & Katie wrangling.  Doug did everything else!  So without further ado: 

AFTER

Wallpaper was removed and the walls were painted a rather bright off-white.  Mirror previously hung in our living room, then in our bedroom and finally has found a home in the bathroom.

New flooring!  I'm so excited to walk in there and not look down and see yucky green.

This little cabinet was formerly orange with silver hardware.  Doug painted the cabinet with our wall color and spray painted the hardware.  Looks so much better!

This light fixture came out of my parents' house.  It had been sitting in the basement for a year or more, and I didn't even really know what it looked like.  What a happy surprise to find that it matched all our new stuff. 

A look into the bathroom-no I did not match the potty seat to the rug or vice versa!  Also, Doug (with a little help from my dad) pulled out the ugly door frame and put in this new lovely drywall.  SO MUCH BETTER!!

Our new pedestal sink with our newly placed hand towel holder (it used to be on the opposite wall by the bathtub) and our freshly painted medicine cabinet.

New toilet

Doug ended up reframing this window and painting it.  He also took out the screen on the other side, so now it doesn't open, but it is so tiny that that really isn't a concern.  It does make it alot brighter in there now.

Our repainted exhaust fan/light.  This really just took some cleaning up and some spray paint.

Remember that ugly light fixture from my last post?  Doug cleaned it up, repainted it and put on new globes.  I love it!  It's one of my favorite things about our bathroom now.

We decided we just did not have the wall space for a towel bar, so instead we hung up a hook to hang our towels on while in the shower.  It works great for us!

New shower curtain & rug (a better woman than me would have ironed this before hanging it up, but the wrinkles will steam out after a couple of showers, right?) Also, it is not really this yellow in here.  Just bad light.  I'll try to post a better one another time.

So there you go!  Please excuse my terrible photography, it was late and we were all tired.  I want to say thank you again to my wonderful husband for all his hard work and effort.  Katie & I are so proud of you and we appreciate everything you do for us!

Bathroom Makeover

 Things have been a little crazy at the Snider house the last couple of weeks.  Doug finished his summer classes, the truck broke down, Katie turned 2 and we started our bathroom renovations.  Like I said, it's been crazy. 

The bathroom has by far been the biggest undertaking of projects we've done in the house.  It's getting a head to toe makeover.  Last summer we replaced the tub and then that made the rest of the bathroom look pretty rundown.  So Doug decided to do the rest of it this summer while he's on break.  And well, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Here's the lovely hallway that is part of the bathroom.  In an order to make it functional, previous owners put in a medicine cabinet & vanity light.  That didn't do much for us, so Doug took those out and patched the wall. 

Another shot of the wall.  The wallpaper has been removed and replaced with off-white paint.  It's so much brighter!  Although, the walls are in pretty terrible shape and we now understand why the wallpaper was up in the first place.  Oh well, we can live with it for awhile.

Our original toilet before Doug found out there was a leak under it and a view of the ugly green floor.

Original hunter green sink that matched the hunter green floor (we are slowly getting the green out of this house!) before Doug pulled it out and left us sink-less for going on 2 weeks.  Don't worry, I knew it was coming!  Thank goodness the kitchen is close!

After the sink was pulled out...see, even the old wallpaper was green!

Not so pretty light fixture, that has been repurposed.  You won't believe how awesome it looks now!

New toilet and a sneak peek of the tile.  

 Obviously these are mostly the before pictures.  I've been taking pictures as we go along and it's going to be awesome when we're done.  A few things we can't change, but we'll live with it.  Like I told Doug, anything is better than what it was before.  It already looks so much cleaner and brighter!

Busy, Busy!

Things have been crazy here at Three Snider's lately.  We've had some home improvement projects, birthdays, & vacations! 

First thing's first, our projects.  We have desperately needed a new bathtub pretty much since we moved into our house 5 years ago.  It was cracked and Doug repaired it many, many times.  Just about the time we thought we'd really gotten it fixed good, we found a leak behind our shower wall.  :(  This opened up a whole other can of worms and so since we'd have to fix all that anyway, we might as well put in the new tub.  So Doug, with the help of some good friends & family installed a new bathtub for us.  It is awesome!  All shiny & new.  Now it just makes the rest of our bathroom look sad, but that's another post for another day.  Next on our list is a new front door!  It came in today and tomorrow we are getting the paint.  Installation will be next week.

 There were two big birthdays at our house this month.  I turned 30 and even more excitedly, Katie turned 1!  :)  We had two parties for Miss Kathryn.  A small one with Doug's family at our house on Saturday and a larger one with my family on Sunday (which also happened to be my birthday.)  Each party was great.  Katie loved eating birthday cake and was totally not interested in presents.  I got a few presents of my own and some birthday money to spend!

For vacation, we drove up to visit our friends in Wisconsin, the Norgaard's.  We had a great time!  All of our girls (they have 2) played together and we went to the zoo and the farmer's market and shopping.  So.Much.FUN! 

Time for a New Look

I changed our layout and our picture again. It was time for something new and summery. :) The picture was taken last weekend at Sarah's graduation.

Last weekend was a pretty busy one for us, oh who am I kidding, every weekend is busy! But last weekend was busier than most. Between graduation, visiting with Matt, and trying to get our AC fixed (still not) we were pretty worn out by Monday. That's why it was nice for us just to stay home, fix some steaks on the grill and go out for ice cream Monday evening. Things I really need to do, Spring Cleaning (hey, it's not officially Summer yet!), plant flowers (I'm running out of time there too) and start getting ready for our annual 4th of July BBQ. :) Oh well, everything will get done eventually, right?

Speaking of 4th of July, it's right around the corner. Just 5 weeks from tomorrow I believe. Once again Doug & I plan to host our families and friends for food, fun, and a great view of the river front fireworks. We don't have all the details yet, but we'll let you all know as soon as we get all the plans worked out.

Thankful

We had a busy Thanksgiving this year, but it was wonderful all the same. We visited lots of family, ate way too much food, and just enjoyed having the time to spend together. We were able to thank my aunt & uncle once again for putting in our new furnace. Our whole house is warm now! I can't begin to tell you how much we appreciate that. We played with the kids...Doug taught my cousins a thing for two about bowling on the Wii. And last night after our final Thanksgiving dinner we rented a few movies and put up our Christmas tree. It was a nice evening together even if we both fell asleep before the movie was over.

I'm a Reader...Not a Writer

I got to just over 3,000 words on my novel writing project and then it promptly fell apart or at least life did. Things have just been too crazy for us lately and writing a novel is about the last thing on my mind. I've been more concerned with keeping warm.

Yes, that's right, our furnace went out or rather won't come on. Fortunately we are in the process of getting it replaced thanks to my very helpful aunt & uncle, but it still falls under the category of "More Crap that Goes Wrong @ Doug & Misty's." Frankly, we're done. There has just been too much craziness at our house lately. Please someone tell us it's going to calm down soon!

We're definitely looking forward to the weekend though. Our friends, Angela & Jay, are coming over on Saturday and Angela & I are going to cook something yummy for dinner and then we're going to play the Wii or do something like that. It should be a good time.

How's Married Life?

This a question that I get asked at least once a week and I'm sure Doug does as well. I guess we'll be hearing it for a little while longer. Until all that newlywed sparkle is gone. It's probably soon to be replaced with, "When are you going to have a baby?" or "Are you pregnant yet?" Actually we've had all those questions and more in the last month and a half. So, I'm here today to answer these questions for you.

Q: How's Married Life?

A: So far, we are settling into married life just fine. I'm still dealing with all kinds of annoying name change stuff and it seems like now that all the wedding stuff has settled down the rest of our life has to be in an uproar. We've been sick, had car issues, and now our furnace isn't working (hopefully that will be fixed this evening!) so we're looking forward to EVERYTHING settling down and just enjoying our life together. Of course, with the holidays coming that probably isn't likely to happen very soon. :) That's okay, though. We're doing just fine and it really is nice to have someone else there to share all these little annoyances with and it helps to have that other person there to keep you warm at night.

Q: When Are You Going to Have a Baby?

A: We'll let you know. :)

Q: Are You Pregnant?

A: NO! We're not pregnant.