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We have friends coming to visit this weekend and I am super excited! The guest room is one of the better rooms in the house so it's not high on our priority list for any major projects, but I have been working on a few very minor additions to welcome all the visitors we're expecting this summer.

This fabulous printable from I Rock So What is a must for every guest room. I'm always a fan of fun typography so this jumped out at me immediately. After downloading the image from I Rock So What, I just opened it in a photo editor, added our info, printed it out, and popped it into a frame I already had. Truly brilliant. Even The Hubs thought it was pretty great. :)

House Tour: Part 4 (Bedrooms + Loft)

We've reached the final leg of our house tour. Yellow walls, same blue ceiling as is in the kitchen. You can't see it in this picture, but there are also glow in the dark star stickers  along the window wall and ceiling.
I must say, I kinda miss the moving box lamp stand. It's simplicity and ruggedness...

There's not much going on in this room, design-wise, because it's one of the better ones, but it will see a lot of traffic this summer!

The bathroom isn't large, but it has doors from the guest room and also from the hall. I love the extra privacy this provides for guests when they visit.

The master bedroom. Eek! We need to get a quilt that fits! And a bed skirt. And some proper nightstands. And... the list goes on and on here, although it's mostly accessorizing as opposed to major construction work.

The walls are beige with the exception of the navy blue accent wall. You may recall from the color palette post that we are keeping this room's color scheme basically the same and coordinating the rest of the house.

The door that you see on the right goes to the master bathroom. It's cozy but, believe it or not, it beats our previous master bath. It has a double vanity, our favorite Euro cabinets ;), and the same eggplant/plum-colored paint that we've seen elsewhere.

Looking at the opposite side of the master bedroom,there is a closet with mirrored doors and you can just barely see (bottom left corner) the steps leading to the loft.






We love the loft! It makes the master bedroom feel like a swanky hotel room with its own living room separate from the rest of the house. By day, this space functions as my office. To the right of the built-in desk is a small door for attic access. During this ridiculously long winter, we enjoyed watching movies at night because it was also the warmest space in the house. In the summer that may be a different story...

Bedrooms and bathrooms and lofts, oh my! This wraps up our house tour. Thanks for joining me.  Now for the real fun: the projects!

House Tour: Part 3 (Main Level)

I should probably be more embarrassed by these photos than I am. On the day these pictures were taken, the house was still decorated for Christmas and we had just begun our basement renovation.  We had been living in the house for about 10 weeks at this point, so the boxes of stuff that belonged in the basement are moved into the living room. (Confession: four of those boxes contain piano music are STILL not unpacked...)

View from Front Door

 This is the view from the front door.

The walls in the living room and dining room are beige and boring builder off-white. I'm pretty sure they haven't painted the stairwells and halls since the house was built. In 1986. Blah. The floors are hardwood that could use a refinish at some point. There are some patches where rugs or furniture have worn right through the finish down to the bare wood but, being solid wood, it's definitely one of the better floor coverings in the house!

Immediately when you walk in, there is a half-bath to the right. It has the original linoleum floor, sink/counter, and toilet. The walls are a deep eggplant color.

Living Room

The living room and dining room are one large open space, divided only by a beam in the ceiling. Yikes, just looking at these pictures with all the mess makes me anxious. I'm so glad we're done with the unpacking phase now!

Dining Room

Yes, dear reader, that is indeed a mirrored wall. Only the 80's best for this house! I dread the day we take those down...

We didn't have a dining room in our old house and we sold our kitchen table when we moved so we've been dressing up the card table with a tablecloth.

These stairs take you up to the bedroom level (photo on L) and down to the basement (photo on R).

The kitchen is at the back of the house. We love the original Euro-style cabinets. Well, sort of. More specifically, we love that an outdated kitchen gives us a functional house to live in while still having opportunities to add some sweat equity!


Does linoleum ever die?!?! It's held up way too well. I have a hard time replacing things just because they're outdated, ya know? If they're damaged, it's not so hard, but these floors are in great shape. The same cannot be said for the off-white Formica counter tops, however. They sort of dip down above the dishwasher and they stain horribly!! I was cooking dried black beans one day and the water that dripped off the spoon stained the counter. Ridonculous, I know. That's not the only stain we've added since living here.


The backsplash and kitchen accent wall are painted in the same eggplant shade as the bathroom. I love dark colors, so I actually don't mind this one so much, I just don't think it's right for this particular house. We'll use one of the lighter shades from our color palette when we repaint. Everything else in the kitchen is beige, but - to keep things interesting - it's not the same beige as the adjoining living/dining rooms. Oh and the ceiling - that is light blue. All of that will be remedied in time. :)


Thanks for joining me again! Next time I'll wrap up the house tour with the bedrooms and loft. If you missed the first part of the tour, you can check out those posts here: House Tour: Part 1 (Layout) and House Tour Part 2 (Basement).