Bonus Rooms and Laundry Rooms

We're showing off bonus rooms and laundry rooms this week - I've already kinda done this so here's links to the basement (it's after the guest room stuff) and the laundry room when we first moved in - the front loading washer was a big hit with my Mom and me. :-P

The laundry room isn't much different, just fuller. We added a little wire shelf to the left of the washer and there are shelves above the washer and dryer that are now full.

Enjoy!

Preppy's Back

I can't help but be excited about this...

Ode to a blue tarp

(This won't really be an "ode", but just go with it...)

I have officially become "that" neighbor.

Long story short - the dog started digging up the carpet next to our deck door (no big deal, we were planning on putting wood floors down), then we found mold under the area she was digging up because water was coming in through the door. STUBBORN me thinks we can fix it. Mike and I spent several hours Saturday trying to fix the door Saturday with no luck, we actually managed to make it worse for awhile. I finally give and we go to Lowe's and we buy a storm door to help keep the water out, we fix the door and get it back to where it was but, to prevent further water damage until the storm door arrives and is installed we have one of these beauties over our door:

I'm sure our neighbors love looking at it. It does cast a lovely blue light into our dining area but I want to see outside! (It's tornado season, I hear sirens and if I don't go outside when I hear them, I at least look outside and the tarp does not work well for monitoring the sky.)

The good news is, we're watching the weather so much tonight that none of the local stations will air any of the normal shows, it's all weather so I'm trying to be thankful that the ugly blue thing is only temporary and will keep the water out in the mean time.

Bathrooms!

It's bathrooms on Kelly's blog this week and I'll be the first to admit, I haven't done much to mine, just the upstairs guest bathroom that is actually used and that I really want to look good for guests.

But first, here's our master.

The sinks are to the left as you walk in and the tub is wonderful. To the right is our shower (in the picture below) and the "throne" is across from that. I still need to get a curtain on the window and I want to get some cute wire baskets or something to hang over the toilet - it's kinda boring right now, but oh well.

Here's our guest bathroom - as silly as it sounds, it's one of my favorite rooms in the house. It's small but it's cute. There's a little wood sign above the towl bar (that's across from the toilet) that says "Count your Blessings" that we got from my cousin and his wife for our wedding. I felt kinda weird putting it in the bathroom but it fit perfectly and looks great.

The third bedroom is in the basement - it's painted but I haven't done anything to it. It's Pepper's (the cat's) bathroom.

I can't wait to see everyone else's bathrooms (and, hopefully borrow some ideas). :-) 

Have a great weekend!

Free to Be Me

I don't know how many of you have heard this song but it's great. I am very much a perfectionist and this song has reminded me that God doesn't need me to be perfect - I already am in His eyes.

I found this video on YouTube tonight and appreciate how simple and clean it is. Hope you enjoy!

UP!

Mike and I went to dinner and a movie with some friends tonight. We saw Up! and it was so cute.



Now we're sitting at home, listening to the thunder and rain outside and getting ready for another busy week at work.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Home Office

It's all about home offices at Kelly's Korner this week. We don't use this room too much, other than to help us keep bills, etc. organized but I think it's cute.



This is the view from the door. The desk and chair are yet two more pieces of furniture that my Grandad refinished and they mean so much to me. I got the organizer above the desk from Pottery Barn - it helps us organize things now but I know it'll really come in handy when we have children and are keeping track of all of our activities. There's a closet on the wall to the right of the desk.



This is the wall opposite the desk. The chest was my grandparents and survived 4 years of dorm life with me at college. The shelf above it was at my Poppop's house and the pictures on it are three vintage-inspired postcards I got in Nice, France in 2004. One depicts Nice, one Cannes and another, Monaco. Mike got me the plant last year for my birthday - needless to say, it didn't make it but I don't want to throw it out. At least the pot is still cute and green!

I can't wait to see everyone else's offices and the children's rooms last week were precious - I have so many ideas for when I need to decorate a baby's room! :-)