Flooring Makeover: Part 1

As I mentioned the other day, we recently tackled the living/dining room with laminate wood flooring. Jonathan's parents came up on a Thursday and helped out. I don't have the final "after" pictures taken yet. I was going to wait to take those after we got all the last bits of trim installed. Those bits of trim haven't come in yet, so I might just go for the pictures without. Anyway. Today I'd like to share pictures of Jonah helping out! 

Playing with some toy cars. He had to keep changing locations because of our  moving things around.

Daddy's little helper. I just love this photo!!

We Jonathan had to scrape up the backer board from where the linoleum was in the foyer. It was a rough yucky mess.  

Here we see our faithful helper lounging on the oddly arranged furniture.

All of the above are pictures that involve removing the nasty carpet. It took 2 1/2 days to get it all out. Then we got to move on to the exciting part. There was a LOT of measuring and RE-measuring. (that's the part they don't show you on those home improvement shows).  This last photo shows a bit of the finished product. Jonah was helping hammer the baseboard back in place.

And....the best little video....Jonah "measuring and marking" like his Daddy!

Dream Home Revisited

The other day I posted pictures of rooms I'd love to have in my Dream Home. Today I'm adding a few more. Enjoy. And happy dreaming!

This would be the perfect guest bedroom! I think of Anne Shirley and her love of the "spare bedroom"...Diana's Aunt Josephine promised to put her in the sparest of spare rooms one day!

And maybe this for a Master Bedroom:

with THIS bath:

and THIS closet...if this isn't the happiest closet you've ever seen, please, please let me see one that is:

Where would one wash those lovely clothes? Why, in a Lovely Laundry, of course!

(with this sink on the other side of the room)

And then, a few fun extras:

Tour My Dream Home

Hey there!

We might be out for a few days, making memories and having adventures, so I thought I'd post some pictures I've found on the lovely world wide web. These are all things, or ideas of things I'd LOVE to have in my Dream Home. 

Now, remember, the key word here is DREAM. I know that having ALL these things under the same roof would take more money than I'll ever have/be willing to spend. So, that being said...here is the outside:

and this is the kitchen:

(the main feature I love about this is the banquette seating for the breakfast area)

I guess we could have a formal dining room too, or in my case, semi-formal:

And the living room/family room:

and THIS room...well I think I may try to create this someday, no matter what house I'm in:

I just love it! 

I love the ladder, the open stairs, and the turquoise chandelier!

OR, how about this home office:

unfortunately, it is more beautiful than it is functional.

ok, well, this is enough for today. Check back later in the week for the upstairs!