Basment fun

I am SO excited to show you all our fun basement.  Like I said before it is pretty much were we spend about 90% of our time.  This is when we started. None of that furniture was ours.  

The previous owners asked if they could have the carpet since we were taking it out.  I glad gave it to them.  However, the carpet was in amazing condition and super nice carpet.  Just not my color or style!

Here are a few of the demo!  Those spots are dust.  Gross!!  But that hunky guy is my super handsome husband!  I know I am SO lucky!!

This is after we pulled down the paneling down.  They did something that I haven't really seen before.  They sheet rocked and then put paneling over it.  Why I am not sure, but we were so excited that we didn't have to spend that money!!!

No home reno job is complete without surprises!  Do you know what is from?  Not mold!

That would be from termites.  Yep, you read that right.  We found termites!  I was sick!  But we had a bug come and take care of them.  But I want them to come back and make sure that they are all gone!!!

Here are the before pictures of my craft room if you didn't see my last post. 

Here are the pictures of the Craft room during.

The stove thing was a canning kitchen and it was really nice, the only problem is we wanted this to be a bed room for our little boy when we have more kids.  So we thought that since we are carpeting we might just want to take it out.  Which we are happy that we did because we found this where the sick was.  Yep, that would be mold! 

My hubbie and I got talking and there were 4 closets in the this room.  which took up a ton of room.  We decided that we would keep the 2 big closets and take out the 2 small ones.  Which I was kinda worried about.  But now that we did it.  I love it!! 

Bye bye closets! 

This is the stairs without all that crazy wallpaper, mirrors, and carpet.

Here is the basement after we had textured painted it. (Again with the sideways! Does anyone know how to fix this?)

Here is the craft room before carpet!  Without those two small closets.  It makes the room SO much bigger!

Lat but not least!  The Family room with carpet!!!  I love the carpet.  However, I will never go through the company that we did again!!!!  They broke the sheet rock in two places and told us that there is nothing that they would do about it.  Grrr!!!! 

We are still working on the baseboards, painting the doors and the door jams, decor and the placement of furniture.  I can't wait to show you everything when it is done.  Just a few more things and this is officially checked off the list! 

I am back!!!

Hello!!!!  I know it has been forever since I blogged here!   I have to say a lot has happened to our little family with in the last year.   Most of you know from my last few posts that we had a baby girl.  Which is so much fun.  But as you may know, baby are a lot of work and she is a very spirited little one!  I will have to write about some things that I have learned now having two kids.  I have a boy and a girl and people where very right, they are day and night!  But still tons of fun.  

When my daughter was exactly a week old, my hubbie started a new job!  It was crazy.  Training meant long hours and having a little boy and a baby.  It was not easy.  But we lived with my mother in law and I don't think that I could have made it without her.  She would come home from work and take my little boy outside to play and do yard work.  During this time my daughter had colic and I had tons of nursing troubles. I will do a post about that in and of itself.  

With my husband's new job came a good size raise.  At least for us it was.  Which meant we were able to start house hunting.  After about 2 months of looking at house's we found our home!!!!  It was SO exciting.  Everything went smoothly and there was no one living here at the time so things went very fast.  The Tuesday after we signed, my hubbie decided that he needed to go deer hunting and I was left with a house to unpack, a super energetic 2 year old and a nursing baby.  Needless, to say I was exhausted!!!  I had some friends come to the recuse and it was so kind! 

Now, fast forward to today.  So far we have started to remodel our basement.  By start I mean almost done except painting and do base board and trim.  I will do another blog post about the bumps we had a long the way and how amazing it turned out.  We love it and it is where we spend pretty all of our time.  

Now we are working on my son's room.  Which I am so tickled to get done!  It will be so much fun to decorate.  Plus, my son who is 3 is the size of a 6 year old.  I am not sure why he is so big.  But he is and so he is currently in a toddler bed and he is just as long as the bed.  So it is time to upgrade him into a twin bed.  I will do a post about that to!!! 

Well goodness, looks like I have a ton to update you on.  Plus, some of the most exciting news of the post, I have a craft room!!!!  Yep, you heard me!!  Guess what?!  It is the biggest "bed room" of the entire house.  I can't wait to show you.  I have been working on getting it organized and all the boxes out of it.  You are going to love it.  I just know.  

I have tons of decor ideas thank to that lovely pinterest and that amazing people who share ideas.  I can't wait.  I hope that you will join me on this journey.  Which mom stories, home and decor ideas, kid struggles, and sew fun!   As while I have been away, I have found some amazing blogs that I would love to share with all of you.  I hope when life gets a little bit less crazy to start Tuesday Tell All's again.  It was so much fun to see all of your amazing ideas!  

So tell me, what in the world have you been doing while my life has been super crazy????