We are back at it again!

Giant Orange Room -Attack!

The chair & couch where left behind by the previous owner, those are the only keepers.

We are back to work on the house and this time it's the largest room in the house. It didn't take us long after we moved into the house to figure out the orange room color just wasn't us. This room has gotten very little attention from me since we moved in. The chair & couch where left behind by the previous owner and I put a cheap table down and a fake plant...I really didn't feel this room at all. So it's time for a change.

The very flamboyant previous owner was a huge fan of bright colors, in poorly chosen hues. We think he painted in a drug-induced state because he missed sections, and globed on paint in all the wrong spots. Needless to say painting in this house is always fun. First we must assess the damage. Sand down his paint drips and globs. Then super prime the the walls. Priming is always fun because every color he left us takes like 3 coats of primer before we can even begin to paint the real deal. I used to love painting. After all painting a room gives you so much for so little. Thirty dollars and you have a whole new room. A new feeling, a new mood. This room in it's current state gives me the Halloween in March goose-bumps. Just like this poor dog gives me the "Oh my gosh, what did your owner do that for?!?"

Well we have a little prepping to do then we will add another layer of primer. YAY. More on this new project soon.

Here some more photos of the stuff we got on shelves and things we placed around the house so it looks like people live here. - This is all stuff we had from our last house. No new purchases yet...yet is the key word.

My front porch swing!

The door below is the one that would be prefect for that dorr knob (see post below)

We will call this the before and after part of this whole blog thing. Here is the room before I got my hands on it... the guy who lived here before us was a huge Peter Max fan so he dedicated his front room to the artist...not my cup of tea but i can see why he liked it.






So here my ideas for the front room: He did leave the white couch and arm chair behind so I think i will work those into the design. The ORANGE must go...I need a 5 gallon bucket of kilz on this house asap.



I will add more pics of the room as soon I can go shopping for neat finds.

The cleaning seems to be almost over with but that only means one thing... moving time. Lots of boxes and no people. Oh what fun this should be. I am too gitty to work right now, all i can think about it decorating the house and making it "bitchin" or whatever you all call it. All i think about it colors for the walls, furniture placement in each room, light fixtures...the list could go on for miles...so I will share a bit of it along the way. I will share the downfalls of an older home that become good points as time goes on. Slowly the house is becoming ours and slowly we will help the house shed its ugly shell and let it show us how great it is. The whole thing is so cool to me, I love houses and furniture so being a first time home owner is like heaven compared to the crappy old apartments and old rentals I have been in. I love the ideas below - they inspire me.