Garage Stairs

Here are some before and after shots of our garage stairs!
Before...

After...

Before...

After...

Yard Work...

Well we don't have much of a yard for the kids to play in so that is our Summer project this year!! Putting in a yard on the side of the house.... here is what it looked like before....

After...so far!!

Here are a bunch of pictures of our progress....Lets start from the beginning! More before pictures...

From the road... You can see the side of our house and back deck....

Let the digging begin! A giant tree stump, gone!!

Making Progress...

Lots and lots and lots of dirt!

Making room for a retaining wall...(yes that is our cable line on the ground, no worries it is now fixed)

Wall going in...Tyler and his brother Ian managed to build this on Memorial day...

Along the road/turnaround...

Our little parking spot is now a little round-about!! I am proud to say that was my idea!!

This is the retaining wall Tyler built last summer, and grass he planted, in the distance you can see the new round about and retaining wall going in...

From the road...

We are going to keep the height of the grassy hill and put a fence on top of that all along the house and where the retaining wall is. The new side yard will be enclosed and give us a lot more privacy from the road!!

Our current driveway is to the left of the big tree in the very left side of this picture... this is the added roundabout area... from the road...

Decorative Shelf!

This is our first mantle that we mounted as a shelf because it didn't go well on our fireplace. I finally decorated it and actually like it!! Got all the decor from Hobby Lobby, all for 1/2 off. Love how it turned out, just need to get a photo for the frame!

P.S. Thanks K for helping me pick all these things out, you're the best!

Front Room Makeover!

This is our front room before we moved in....no blinds, white walls, no furniture...
I started painting a couple weeks ago... the walls are an "almond bark" color and then we wanted an accent wall...this blue was all wrong...

So we got a new blue and this is how it turned out!! Love it:)

Other end of the room...

Room-by-Room

This new year, Tyler and I have set out to organize and/or decorate each room in our home (may take more than a year!) We are assigning each room a whole month to organize and finish. For the month of January we are starting with the Craft Room and the Garage. I have taken on the craft room because it is where I do all my crafting and I want to have it organized so it is easier to decorate the other rooms we get to! Tyler is working on the garage where he does all his creating! So on our list.....

Craft Room- Organize Fabric (almost done), rearrange shelves, hang peg board, go through/get rid of junk. Things are coming along well in this room, a little messy still but I will update with pics when it is complete!!

Garage- Finish painting, finish organizing shelves/label bins, build work bench.

We are excited to start the new year with goals that will help our home stay cleaner and more organized. Next month we will be working on "Media" our computers are a mess and we have a box of old tapes that need to be put onto dvds! Hope your new year is full of lots of fun projects and goals:) We look forward to sharing our progress with you as the months go by!

Front Yard coming soon!!

Tyler built me a front yard!! Hopefully next summer the kids will be enjoying this little play area outside! He built the retaining wall and filled in the area with top soil. Then we seeded!
The grass is coming in now!!

Oh and the county took down that huge dead tree that was on the side of our house! It use to be to the left of the 2 trees in the above picture.

Rain Gutter Bookshelves...

Tyler put up some rain gutter bookshelves in the kids play room....(yes those are rain gutters that you find at the home improvement store!)

Here is where I first saw these....she has a tutorial!