say goodbye green cabinets without any cabinet doors!

once upon a time, there was this crazy couple, who kept buying fixer uppers because the wife couldn't buy a cookie cutter house. she just couldn't bear the thought of being a normal person. so instead, they bought a house that had been torn apart and had no doors when they moved in.  9 months later, they decided it was time.  mainly, because their #ohniceandchubbybaby started crawling.

they had painted the upper cabinets and just never got around to the bases.  good thing too, otherwise all that paint would have gone to waste.

so the husband decided one day to start ripping them out. 

they found these semi good cabinets that were unfinished.   painting would be a good option.

one day soon they'll be installed, with beautiful wood counter tops.  one day soon.  so the story continues.

lest we forget

here are some other photos with the stain completely stripped off.  we recommend renting the bigger, stronger sander, don't be afraid.  just be very careful.

when we first looked through our house...we thought "yes, this is going to take a lot of work"

but in the photos...it always looks nicer.

can you spy some ghostly eyes watching us?

let's have a shout out for the mama and the han.

they have helped the house for many hours.

(the fetus and i were kicked out so we opted to take photos.)

do you love the pink windows?  

one day i'll get to paint those.

gotta love that husband.  he's been doing good work.

the house and floors

here, we happened to take some photos of the wood floors.  the husband worked soooo very hard on them.  sanding and sanding, and then more sanding.  i think home depot must love us, because after the sanding, there was more sanding to be done.  the things we learn when we do it ourselves.  like, you really do have to completely remove all the old stain on the floor... next time we redo wood floors, we (meaning the husband) will be pros. 

the original floor stain was a darker color, which i loved, so we redid it in a dark walnut color.  to be honest, refinishing the floors was pretty easy, just time consuming and much cheaper than paying someone.  so if you need some hints, be sure to contact the husband!

the banister and the stairs...which no longer match, will be a future project. 

here you can kind of see the floors redone.  we're setting up our bedroom and this is our new rug from IKEA.  one day, i'll get a video of the kona trying to run around the house. it's hilarious, it's so slippery for her.  this happened to be our first rug we put down in the house and so she had to claim it as her own while we could.

we are still painting here and there, cleaning up, fixing up.  debating what should be fixed now or wait until later.  good news is, we do have the baby room our bedroom set up.  we did have this awesome headboard and footboard that's been sitting in storage for the last five years...but we're selling it, it's much to large for the room.  if you want it...here's the ad!

i need to take some photos...but the house is still ripped apart...so just pretend.

a buck head on a bike in truckee

 

on our way to the wedding, we stayed at the our cousin's cabin in truckee.  it's such a fun little area.  super green, pine trees everywhere, random buck heads on bikes, piano men playing on the street, plus some super eclectic shops!  like this one below.

i loved the pallet doors (hint, hint, the husband) the chevron stripes, plywood walls, brick

basically everything!  so on your way to sacramento, stop in truckee, and visit the shop Bespoke.

this is totally the style i'd like to have in my home...

see this wall!?  

I really want to do something similar in the house...each state had a hand printed card with the state bird.  it was just lovely.

the smell alone was enough for us at this shop.  for reals, we didn't even buy anything, just went in for the sniffs, and it was divine.

until next time truckee.

little yellow mustard chair

 

i just wanted you all to see this fabulous chair purchased at my new favorite thrift store. 

it was $20 (after the 25% off) and other than dusty, needs no repairs.

eat your heart out anthropolie

it is already so loved by me, i can't stand it. 

(this is a before picture of the floors...wait until you see them redone!)

the house

photo taken after sanding the wood floors.

i kind of want to do this big dramatic blog about the before and after and all the cool stuff with the house, but let's face it, it probably will not happen, at least for a while.  

baby will probably take priority blog wise about the house.  

the husband has been working diligently on the house and i try to help where i can.  let me tell you though, it's hard for me to stand by and watch and be useless. plus everyone tells you what you should and shouldn't do while be pregnant. so, i probably do a lot of shouldn't-do-while-pregnant things, but mother's intuition right?  it can trump all as far as i'm concerned, plus things have just got to get done!  baby's got to live somewhere!

(meanwhile, days later after above words were written)

you are in luck!  i actually took some before pictures. . . i'll admit, it doesn't look too bad, if we had taken up close photos, you'd all be thinking a different story. see if you can spy all the missing items in the house.  like cabinet doors, closet doors, casing, trim or anything else you can't find.  well that's because, they are gone.  i'm not sure who the lucky sole is with them, but it sure wasn't us. 

master bedroom. 

i probably should have taken photos after we patched hole after hole after hole x inifinity holes and that doesn't even count the boogers on the walls

you can't really tell, but the windows used to have casing, which had been ripped out at some point before we bought it.  we've since added to it. i'll need to take some more photos of the finished product!  the husband is quite the carpenter and the kona is forever in the way.

so in the master bedroom we have painted all the walls, completely refinished the wood flooring, painted the closets, windows and trim...or we will be finishing that all up soon.  we found out that the closet drawers on the right containt a giant hole in the floor, which apparently is the hvac return air. (that side will become the husband's closet.)  

baby room.

you might have noticed that all the baseboard, casing and trim is different. practically in every room.  we were going to redo it all, but you see, some smarty pants GLUED and nailed them in.  we'll just leave them in for now.  

here's her wee closet. after closer inspection, we noticed that the ceiling in the closet was peeling...come to find out they put some awesome 70s vintage contact paper and THEN painted over it.  so we had to pull that down...again, should have taken more pictures of it.  we've also repainted all the walls, windows, closet, patched bizllions of holes and redone the wood flooring.  

living room

i really like the fireplace, i'm not sure exactly what i am going to do here, but i am thinking i'd like to do some pallets in the back of the shelves, but it's kind of on my last thing to do.  we're trying to get our room and the baby room finished so we can at least set up some place to sleep.  oh, you saw our closet in the hallways. . .yeah, we need to figure out a door situation there.

again, we painted the walls, trim, and refinished the floors.

so, the stairs are kind of really, badly, terribly, placed.  but we'll make due.  I feel like they ruined this room with them, but i think on the far side i'm going to place a dining room area...or when i get my baby grand piano i'll place it there.  but my absolute favorite thing about the house is on the left.  16 foot of glorious windows with a great view and no one can see in!

here's the back porch, which has some scary stairs that were included.  but i love this porch...there will be some mad, mad parties here.  i plan on spending some quality time sun tanning here.  also...think pallets with cushions and christmas lights on the railing.  

it will be so magical.  

just you wait.

  

here we have the main seller!  the tree houses!  they even have electricity...oh, just ignore my creepy shed down there.  i think that's where they hid their dead. 

just saying.

here's our lovely view i was talking about.  

sigh.

lovely, i know.  the squirrels think so too.

i somehow have forgotten to take pictures of the basement, kitchen, FRONT OF THE HOUSE, laundry shoot, stairs leading to nowhere, cold storage with an air conditioning unit (?), garage, our super steep driveway, the stink hole and the bottom porch area, oh, and the other place where they hide the naughty children under the house...but alas, that will be for another day. 

  

i'm excited to show you the after pictures...