Catching up

So I am sitting here with a sick baby sleeping on me and thought.....maybe I should update my blog. There have been a lot of things going on over here, so where should I start? I briefly hinted that there were a few "things" with our house when we first looked at it. So much so that our real estate agent said, "are you sure?" when we said we wanted to put in an offer on it. I mean it could have been the overwhelming smell of pot when we walked in or the dried vomit on the carpet??? We saw potential through the smoke (literally)! The outside didn't really need work, here it is.

We have done a lot of things to the house in the 3 1/2 years that we have lived here. Most recently we have put in new floors and fixed the island in the kitchen. When we moved in this is what the kitchen looked like:


I think that it looks pretty good. However, what you don't get from these pictures is the smell...doesn't Rachael Ray talk about "smellivison"....if there was a "smelliputer"...or something...you would be getting the scent of a frat house basement the morning after a party and I swear it was imbedded in the walls! We literally primed and painted EVERY single wall! Please note the liquor bottles on top of the cabinets! See, I told you it was very reminiscent of a frat house! In the kitchen, we have painted the walls, removed a wall, painted the cabinets black, and most recently finished up the island. It had a faux brick finish on it which I liked, but once we painted the cabinets, it didn't really work with everything else. We thought about just painting the brick or adding bead board, but we ended up deciding to make it look like a cabinet. Here is the finished island.

I love how it turned out! I have to admit that I have been a blog stalker! I enjoy reading so many different blogs and I have gotten so many ideas from all these wonderful blogs. I saw the black cabinets somewhere in the blog world and the same with the island.

Here is the sweet boy who is not feeling too good today :-(