Hmmm, what else have I been up to this past month?

I did get my downstairs bathroom and hallway painted a few weeks ago. I'm lovin' the bathroom, cuz it's a cool color, but the hallway wasn't quite the green I was going for. It's just hard to pick out the exact color you want from a tiny 1" square color swatch. Maybe it's just me, but I have run into that problem on more than one occasion. Of course, by the time I finish painting and it dries, I just wait and let it grow on me. I don't much care for painting, so I hate the thought of having to go back and try to get it more the color I really wanted. I just end up settling. Oh well, what do ya do?

So here's my hallway downstairs before:I should have taken the pictures before I took down all of the pictures and switch plate off, but I didn't. It was just really dingy, cuz the kids can't keep their darn hands off the walls. I thought if I went darker, it wouldn't get so icky looking so fast. Besides, I've had it this color for over 7 years. I am really ready for different!!!

Now here is the after:I like it now that it's been a few weeks. It is hard to take a good picture of such a small area though. I took these with my phone so they don't look the greatest. But you get the gist.

Now on to my downstairs bathroom. It was light purple in the before picture. This is because, when I painted it 7 years ago, Kristen was the only kid downstairs and her room was the same color. I was matching the two rooms for her. I have moved the kids all over the place since then and painted their rooms several times each, but I never got around to the bathroom. I didn't have much money to work with this time, so I was stuck using the same wall decor. It still looks good in there though, I think. I don't know, I like it much better now than before, but maybe that is just because it is different than it was. I think I'd like anything better. I like change. I get quite bored with the same ole same ole.

So here ya go, bathroom before:

Ok, so I'm a dummy. Apparently I didn't take any before pictures. This is the only one I have that somewhat shows the before color. Again, it was a very light color and looked rather dingy. This is the kids bathroom, and they seem to have huge difficulty keeping anything clean. I actually took this picture to show Terra my "I've had it way too long" picture. It's Home Interior and I've had it for over 16 years. That was back when I spent a ton of money on all of that stuff. Anyway, it's all I've got for ya as far as the before goes.

Now on to the after:I had to use Karen's towels that a friend of mine embroidered her for Christmas. They don't go with her bathroom at all, so I just put them in the downstairs bath. And the wash cloth is placed like that for a reason.... I had to use all 3 ya know. She wouldn't have it any other way. :) They all have her name on them. I did buy matching towels to go in there too though. Those will probably show up in the pics of the downstairs, whenever I get around to it. :)

I took these ones with my phone too. So, they don't look so great. I'm sure when I get around to doing the whole downstairs pics like I did of the upstairs, I'll have much better quality. Well, that is if my camera likes me that day. It seems to give me problem too. Maybe it's not the camera that's so much the problem as the user. lol. Oh well. But ya see, I may not have posted in the last month, but I did take pictures.

The rest of the upstairs

Well, here is the rest of the upstairs, finally. First off is Karen's bedroom. It is definitely all girl. Very, very girly. She now wants her room red, but that is very unlikely to happen. :) She has an exorbitant amount of stuff. I do get rid of things, but there are a lot of things we don't want to get rid of. Pack it up you say? Well, I have done that with some things. And hey, it is clean under her bed, which is more than I can say for anyone else in the family. It is organized, just lots and lots of stuff though.

This is the upstairs bathroom. It is between Karen's room and my computer/craft room. It is small, but it does do the job. :) It needs to be redone, because I am tired of it. I plan on getting to it pretty soon actually. I mean, it looks okay, but I am ready for new. It's been this way for 7 yrs. Definitely time for a change. I like change. A lot! Well, not the Obama kind of change. I'm talkin' about good change, not bad change. lol.This is the rest of my computer/craft room. I posted the wall that has my scrap booking desk on a previous post, so I didn't put it on this one. Again, lots and lots of stuff. The large shelves have a lot of my souvenirs on it, and the small one has all of my Precious Moments dolls on it. And awe, the glider in the corner is the one I used with all 3 of my babies. :( They are so big now. :( And here you have the desk I am sitting at right now. See the computer in the corner? Yep, that is where I am right this very moment. :) Aren't you glad you don't have to dust my house? ha ha:) I have so many "things". But, all my "stuff" is important to me. It all has some sort of meaning/special memory. Here we are in my room. I want to repaint it too, but what a pain to do so. I'll get to it one of these days. The white door is to my bathroom.Lo and behold, the master bath. Again, I am totally ready for something different, but that will happen one of these days. When I feel like taking a week out of my life to do so. A week for both my bathroom and bedroom that is. I still like it ok, but I do tire of things quite quickly. I would totally change my entire house at least once a year if I had the money.

Gotta love the litter box. NOT!!! I hate that stupid thing. When my cat dies, that is it. No more cats. I mean, I love my cat, but yuck!!! I hate, hate, hate the litter box. Did I say Hate? I have it in my bathroom, because there really is no where else I would rather it be. I have tried every room in the house, well, not the kitchen, but you get the gist. And it is Billy's job to keep it clean. I wanted to just put the cat in the back yard, but he wouldn't let me. So, the agreement came at that point that if he wants the cat in the house, he has to clean up after her. He said he would, but I gotta say, he can be a bit of a slacker sometimes. So there we have it. NO MORE CATS!!!

So, there ya go. The upstairs is complete. Now, onto the downstairs. I hope to get to that this weekend. I have to get Kristen and Hunter to get their rooms clean enough to my liking. That can be a challenge. We shall see. :)

Since I don't have anything better to put on here at the moment, I thought I'd give you all a tour of my house. Well, the upstairs living areas anyway. There are too many pictures for me to want to do it all at once. I have mentioned that I like to see the way people decorate their homes, so I thought I'd share mine. So here ya go...

This is the living room from 4 different angles. I love the color red, which would explain why there is so much of it. :)
I'm not crazy about the funky wall in the next photo. It's really a waste of space as far as I see it, but if we were to change it, it may make it difficult to get down the stairs without hitting your head. So, it must stay. ;0 I can't put much on it either because my cat will knock it off. But, it would look cluttered anyway, because I've tried it.I tried and tried and tried to get this picture without the glare from the mirror, but it just wasn't gonna happen for me. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. :)This next picture is the stairs, obviously, going toward the front door. It splits off at the landing and heads on to the down stairs area. We've lived here for over 7 years, and I haven't fallen down them yet. Knock on wood!!Now we are in the kitchen area. Just on the other side of the archway is where you would go down the stairs. I have a lot of crap up there that I need to dust. UGH!!! The next picture is part of the dining room taken from the kitchen side. The kitchen is split from the dining room with a bar on one side and counter space and sink on the other. Well, that's it for right now. My next post will be the rest of the rooms upstairs. :) Gotta love that red!!!