Back to School

Our laundry room had that awful roll vinyl flooring. Something which I could not live with. I wanted to replace it with something fun and bright that matched the blue tile in the adjacent kitchen. I've always wanted to do a floor in VCT, (think the kind of tiles that they use is schools) so that is what we used. We had our friend Jerry put it in for us and it looks absolutely fabulous.

We also finally got our new washer and dryer which are beautiful. Too bad I can't use the yet because the water supplies are leaking too bad. Mount dirty laundry is about to overtake our house.

Here's what the laundry room floor looked like before.




























Just for fun here is what the original floor in 1950 looked like.



















A little closer look.
The fun thing about the original floor is if you look really close some of those little squares are glittery.



















Now for the new.

Cutting down the tiles from 12" to 9". According to our flooring expert 9" tiles would be a more appropriate size for the age of the house and also since the room is so tiny we get more pattern in the small space.



















Here it is now. In all of its glorious beauty. I really, really, really love it.




























Wonderful washer and dryer. The space is pretty small so it's hard to get a picture of both of them together.
























































Now I just need to find some cute little shelves to put my soap and other laundry things. I'm also going to make a little cafe curtain with a funky print fabric. I've been searching but can't find the perfect fabric just yet.

Progress Report

I thought I would give you all a little progress video of sorts. There really hasn't been a ton of progress other than moving in tremendous amounts of junk. We still have a ton to do but it is feeling like home to us already.

Just the Beginning

We officially moved into our new house 6 days ago. The weird thing about it is I thought that I was going to be really sad to leave the place where we had lived so long, but I haven't missed it one bit. From the first night here at the new place it has felt like home. Like we have lived here forever.

In between opening boxes and moving piles of stuff I have been painting. Finn's room first, then our room. I knew what color I wanted to paint Finley's room for a long time. Our room not so much. I asked Matt what color he wanted and he said green. Loved his answer as green is my favorite color.

We also had our friend Jerry put in a new sub-floor in our room since there was only some old icky carpet padding in there. Since we can't afford carpeting right now I just painted the floor with patio paint for an urban, garage, home depot kind of look.

I also painted the closet in our room with some blue oops paint from Home Depot and added the cheapo closet organizer from our old closet. Notice how I didn't split the closet equally? My side is a little bit bigger. I would have taken even more space if I thought I could get away with it. I also re-purposed some Flor tiles I had by lining them on the bottom of the closet. I like the way it turned out.

Here are a few little before and after peaks.

Finley's room

The moment you've all been waiting for. The way too long, mumbling, house tour.

Sneak Peak

Here's a little sneak peak of some barrette sets and singles that I just finished. The top 9 sets are heading off to Otto and the bottom 8 are heading to my Etsy shop Digadig.

Perfect colors for spring!

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

I hope.

Dang, it feels like we have been waiting for this whole house thing to be over with for ages. We made our offer on September 1st so it's been like 6 months already.

We were supposed to close yesterday but someone on the other side didn't get the paper work in in time. Now we (not really us the selling agent is paying for it since they screwed up) have to pay another $900 rate extension on our loan. Not only that but we are so ready to start cleaning and painting before we move all of our stuff over.

Talk about a big letdown . Insert huge sad face here.

Hopefully, and I cross my fingers when I say this, we will be closed by early next week.

Then the harder part will begin. Cleaning, patching, painting, moving, and leaving our well loved teeny, tiny, home. Insert another huge sad face.

And the winner is.....

Isabel Clownsnack!

I entered Clown in the Modernica pets on furniture contest last month. The challenge was to take a picture of your pet on a piece of modern furniture. Now I enter contests and never ever win anything. Wait that's not completely true. I did win 6 packs of pre-fold diapers when Finley was a baby.

So when I entered Clown I had no real expectation to win, but we did. Thanks in part by all of my fabulous friends that voted for her and secured her a spot in the finals.

This is the winning picture.


















I know it is technically not perfect and I really should have paid more attention to the junk under the couch, but I do think it is pretty funny.

The hardest part of the whole thing was picking out our prize. I really wanted this Noguchi Replica coffee table but since the glass just rests on the base, I was afraid that a certain very rambunctious 3 year old would somehow hurt herself. So I ended up choosing the Easy Chair which is a replica of Pierre Paulin's "orange slice" chair.

We drove down to Los Angeles to pick it up last week. I love the tweedy orange color that I picked out. The chair is super comfortable and will look great in our new house. (which we should close on next week!!!!!)

Here are Finley and Clown posing for the camera at Modernica. They also did a blog entry on our visit.



























Thanks a ton Modernica!