DIY Wannabe

You have officially listened to me complain (A LOT), share what this old home looked like before, and now you've seen what I did to the place so far. What's next you ask? What I have planned for the future!

{All photos are personal unless otherwise noted}

First off I hate a plan refrigerator!

If you have time to waste go to PInterest and search refrigerator decorations. You will be there for days laughing at some of the crazy refrigerators. 

But one caught my eye-that will take this...

To this...

{picture via A Diamond in the Stuff}

Next up is that bathroom. I have been debating what to do with this wall...

And I was being my indecisive self for the last couple weeks. 

I debated between the following.

{picture via Amazon}

This is only $15.99 on Amazon (not counting the towels.)

I liked this, but thought it would be more difficult to recreate.

{picture via Home Decor Photos}

This was my final idea, but I still haven't settled on any of them just yet. So that bathroom wall will stay bare for now.

{picture via I'm Busy Procrastinating}

This is our guest bedroom. 

Yes, you heard that correctly! Since the movers broke so many of our things they have to come out and look at everything. Meaning we aren't allowed to throw these boxes away just yet. I have Pinterest dreams of how this room will one day look, but guys furniture and redecorating and entire room is expensive (so this will have to wait!) 

The great mantle debate of 2013 ha! Josh won by getting his Flat Screen TV up their, but I will still get to decorate it. We need to work out the extension cord issue first. 

Then maybe something along these lines for the Holidays!

{picture via Pinterest}

Our last big project will be the office!

I think I have convinced Josh to make it an office/craft room!

I know it won't look anything like this...

{picture via Pinterest}

But a girl can dream!

What are your current home DIY projects? Do you have any suggestions for me?

Updating Our Rental Home

So far I have complained about renting/movers and shared some before pictures of our new home. Now (what hopefully you all have been waiting for) I want to share what we have done to our lovely rental home! Josh and I have a very distinct style that is hard to explain. We call it Modern 50's and 60's. We love everything from that time period and wanted it incorporated in our house. We "think" we pulled it off. We also wanted a color theme to be reflected throughout the entire house. Without even trying originally we gravitated towards black, tan, and pops of red. 

{All photos are personal and taken with my iphone, sorry not sorry}

Kitchen:
If you remember correctly I hated the kitchen more than anything else in this entire house. Trust me I wasn't being a brat. PLUS we couldn't paint it or update anything. I was stuck guys. So I worked with what I had. 

It looks about he same as before now it just has our stuff sitting on it. We decided to put splashes of red throughout the entire house. Our red appliances are displayed and we picked up a tan and red rug at target!

If you also remember from my previous post we had this hideous peg board that I had no clue what to do with. So like any other women I hit up Pinterest. 

My first idea was to do something along the lines of this...

I hated it. I got little baskets, put it up, and took it all down right away. 

Then I saw this...

And it worked perfect for our kitchen!

Our kitchen really reminds us of our grandparents houses (which I don't hate!)

What do you think?

Then we added touches of our love for Beer! And a random key ring we found at Target. I locked myself out of the house a week or so ago so this was necessary.

Living Room:
We loved our living room even before our stuff arrived. It has wood floors, a fireplace, and wood framing everything!

I have always dreamed of having a fireplace that was beautifully decorated. So when I saw our fireplace my mind started racing through all of those Pinterest fireplaces I had pinned to my Home Ideas board, but Josh had other ideas. 

Josh had always wanted his TV mounted above the fireplace. Relationships are about compromise guys, I had to give in. This is DEFINITELY a work in progress still. I will find a way to make it pretty and elegant still.  

We REALLY wanted the living room to reflect our modern 50's and 60's taste and I think we did a great job from the table lamps, couches, and decor.

This was Josh's main project. When you first walk into the house this is the wall you face so we knew we wanted it to be a statement piece. 

I wanted to originally liked (this vvv) idea. 

But Once we bought our record player we knew we wanted to do something with it in the living room. All of the Album on the wall our WoodStock performers. (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplanes)

We bought the table from Target (they made a fortune off of our move ha!). After it was built we didn't like the height of the table so we hit up Amazon for 8in legs that Josh added two days later. 

The final touch to our living room was a 50's or 60's era clock to tie everything together. We were so excited about the piece Josh had picked out so when the box arrived I tore it open to find this...

If you guessed correctly that was not what we had ordered. A quick exchange and a few days later we had the clock we loved...

Dining: 
We literally changed nothing about our dining room set up from our apartment. This beautiful centerpiece was added after we received it as a gift in the mail from Josh's parents. 

Main Bathroom:

If you remember this was my number 2 problem (And we all had a good 12 year old laugh at the bathroom funny of saying number 2 ha!) Since I once again couldn't paint I just wanted it to have lots and lots of rich colors. Josh had picked out great pieces from our apartment so we used those and called it a day. Well kind of...I plan to share all of the plans I still have to come later this week and this bathroom is the big debate (that will probably take up most of that post).

Office:
Go figure the one room that is Josh's still isn't even close to being done. He did shock me and buy a desk and chair which we just proceeded to sit all of our papers on. We keep saying this is getting done this weekend (and then life happens.)

Master Bedroom:
Since I already complained about the movers in and entire post I'm going to keep this short. They STILL haven't fixed a thing. Be prepared to see a very half finished bedroom, because of them. 

This is looking in from the door.

These drawers are still broken. All of Josh's stuff has to be sat on the floor-AND IT IS DRIVING ME NUTS. sigh. I can't wait for the moving company to get their act together.

But that doesn't keep me from having a nice bed. 

This is where the...sleeping happens. 

I almost didn't post this picture, because well honestly it's boring. 

As weird as this sounds we just haven't gotten around to hanging this clock in the 3 weeks we have been here. I guess we should make this a priority tonight.

Guest Bedroom: 
This will make an appearance later this week in the "What is to come" post I'm planning considering it still has the moving boxes in it. Josh and I decided since we won't have to many guests that I can have this closet all to myself (WOOHOO). 

Guest Bathroom:
Once again nothing to exciting has happened here. I added some hotel shampoos, conditioners  and moisturizers. Don't act like you don't steal them too!

Tomorrow will be my final post for now about our rental home! I can't wait to share what we have planned for the future! Lots more DIY projects! And maybe I will even share some of my holiday plans for the house (oooh ahhhh oooh ahhh)!

How was everyone else's house decorating experience? Did you have a theme throughout your house?

Five on Friday: Glasses

I have been to busy to even think this week, meaning my rental home posts will have to wait a few more days! Something exciting did happen this week though...remember those glasses I ordered (refresh yourself here) well they arrived this week! Woohoo! I really debated skipping my Five on Friday this week 1. Because I have been slacking all week and 2. Because I wanted to share my glasses, and there are 9 of them not 5. So I decided to share them all and pick my 5 favorites, sound like a plan? 

I need to confess something first, I hate selfies. You will never see just a picture of me unless Josh snapped it without me knowing. 

Example: 

Even here you can see my extreme camera awkwardness. My arm looks 10 miles long.

I wanted so badly to share what all the frames looked like on my face so you could get the full effect (what I won't do for blogging) so don't mind my silly faces or wet hair from just showering. Don't judge me please :) 

{all personal photos}

I opened my first box of glasses from Warby Parker . It was in the cutest box that had little snaps on the sides. 

I was greeted with this little note that promised amazing glasses. The back has step by step instructions of when you send them back.

I couldn't wait to rip into these bags.

Get ready for those awkward photos I promised you!

I am not going to bore you with what I thought about each and every one of the five glasses I received from Warby Parker. I will share that they fit tightly on my head and I wasn't thrilled with any of them. Their glasses are all incredibly priced and they have an awesome collection, but I personally did not find any I fell in love with. 

See for yourself...

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You can tell I really hate the next pair!

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And these were the types of faces I was talking about ha!

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5.

Then I opened my glasses from Glasses.com! 

Both places offer free shipping both ways which was fantastic.

These 4 are all a little more expensive then what Warby Parker offers, but the fit on all of these glasses was so much nicer (personally)! I did not love each and every pair for me, but they all felt like they were quality. 

 I look bored here? My apologizes.

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And I look scared here and a librarian. 

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You may not agree, but I LOVE these!

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These also.

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Five on Friday:

1//3//8//9//?

I couldn't decide of a 5th. I honestly didn't love 5 of them and that's okay. Number 8 are probably my favorite and maybe Santa will bring them this year since they are of course the most expensive glasses at $170! They are ray bans and I think they fit my face best.

Has anyone else tried either of these companies? What is your opinion! (and I want honesty here people!)

                Angi