The new floor plan

I finally have a floor plan of the new house.

I seriously suck at drawing out floor plans using any free software. I can sketch them on napkins, but on the computer? Forgetaboudit. Well, thanks to my awesome husband, he whipped up a pretty-much-to-scale floor plan for your viewing pleasure. He even went around with a tape measure. This is about a bazillion times better than any one I could have sketched up, so everyone give Ben a big ol’ fat high five.

Colored dots have been added to the floor plan to help you find rooms easier.

I am reusing all the images below from my My House is a hot mess, come on in! post. I’m including the same floor plan image over and over so you don’t have to keep scrolling to the top to see where each room is. Hopefully that is helpful and not annoying.

Family room (green dot):

Piano Room (yellow dot):

Kitchen and breakfast (peach dot):

Mud/Laundry/Pantry (light purple):

Master Bedroom (orange dot):

Boy and Girl Bedrooms (blue/purple dots):

Office and Gameroom (light blue/red dots):

Guest Bathroom (between the office and the game room):

Kids’ Bathroom (between the girl room and the family room):

Hopefully you guys have a better idea of the layout of the new place. I love looking at and drawing out floor plans. It really helps to visualize the space so much better. Are you a layout tweaker? I am a tweaker. I draw out floor plans and then tweak them until they are the perfect layout. I will move walls, swap rooms, change out closets, completely rearrange entire layouts of kitchens and bathrooms. It’s like a hobby of mine or something.

So far I have big dreams to totally gut and redesign the kitchen, do some tweaking to the master bathroom to make room for a larger shower, and enlarge the master closet by adding onto the house. Oh, and we think it might be kinda cool to turn the tub in the kids bathroom by 90 degrees and put in a door to the back deck. That way kids who have been swimming can enter directly into the bathroom instead of dripping water across my house when they need to use the potty.

I’m getting ahead of myself though. These are our big dreams. Who knows if they will ever become reality (except the kitchen. This is one room that I will for sure be redoing. I’m already so over it. It’s a terrible flow, design, quality, you name it.)

Oh, and PS, I’ve been painting our son’s room! Woot! We are so close to having one room in the house look new again instead of creepy scary. I’ll show you soon.


     

A few little updates to my daughter’s room

Well hello my friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. I appreciate all your sweet comments and support from my previous post about digging out of debt and following Dave Ramsey’s financial plan.

I’ve been trying to tie up little loose ends around the house and this weekend I tackled a project I’ve been meaning to do for probably a year. It took me a total of about 10 minutes. I don’t know why I put these little things off for so long! Both quick projects were in my daughter’s room. I’ve been trying to just finish up this room but it’s all the little finishing touches that I really drag out for far too long!

For starters, she has a full length mirror in her closet:

It has been leaning up against the wall and I’ve been meaning to hang it up so it’s easier for her to use. I finally got around to hanging it, and instead of putting it up on the wall behind her dresses, I stuck it on the inside of her closet door.

It’s so low because she’s a kid and is short! As she grows I’ll move it higher for her, but this height makes sense for her right now.

I have been getting more and more addicted to a new product lately. Have you guys seen the command strips by 3M? These things are the best! I really love the velcro ones for hanging pictures.

I have a serious phobia about wasting random office supplies (I’m whackadoo, I know) so to have these stretch further I like to cut them in half.

If you are using the velcro ones, you just take the top half of your cut and stick it to the bottom half. It’s like a two-fer.

I usually will stick the strips to my frame first, then peel off the paper backing and stick the whole thing to the wall.

One more little update I did was to hang a necklace holder under her earrings frame. I found this cute little knob holder at Hobby Lobby on clearance oh, probably a year ago?, and I’m just now getting around to hanging it. Once again, it took me like 3 minutes tops.

I hung it the same way – with the command strips. Just cut ‘em in half, stick them to the back of your holder, and then slap them up on the wall.

So much easier and less messy than a hammer and nails. And if you ever want to move your frames, there are no holes in your sheetrock. Can you see why these are quickly becoming my favorite go-to item?

Finally, two more little things to check off my daughter’s room list. So close!

PS, this post is not sponsored by anyone. I am writing about command strips because I love them.


     

I was a guest on the Down & Dirty w/Frank Fontana radio program

Hey guys! I hope you had a great weekend and an even better start to this week. I didn’t intentionally fall off the blogging planet last weekend; it just happened. Sorry ’bout that.

So, I’ve got some pretty exciting news to share. I was on the radio last week!

Frank Fontana from the Down & Dirty Radio with Frank Fontana show asked me to be a guest on their live online radio show about all things DIY. (Don’t worry, no one is dumb enough to have me on as an “expert”. HA! They wanted to talk about a DIY Disaster of mine.)

They pretty much wanted to heckle me about the peeling-paint-on-the-doors disaster I had a few months ago. My big claim to fame. I’ve been blogging for three years, and my big claim to fame is that I botched some doors with the wrong type of paint. At least I botched it real good. If I’m going to be made an example of what-not-to-do, I might as well screw it up really bad.

Being self-depreciating is a favorite hobby of mine, so of course I said,
“Sure. What the hell. Put me on a live radio show with two snarky hosts. Sounds fun!”

They are both convinced that the reason the paint on the doors in my house started peeling is because I have ghosts. I think they’re onto something…

So far as a blogger I’ve shied away from any publicity where I’ll have to speak, be interviewed, show my face on TV, or otherwise have any reason to embarrass the hell out of myself. I was born with Foot-In-Mouth Syndrome (heard of it?) and have never found a cure for it. In a moment of weakness I agreed to go on a radio program — probably because it was a segment pointing out how dumb I am instead of looking to me like I’m an expert on anything. (Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but I’m not an expert. Wouldn’t want to blow my cover I’ve got going on here.)

The intro to my segment, called Disaster DIY, starts at 3:12. This will go down in history as the very first time I’ve ever had my name mentioned on the radio. The real gossip begins at 40:20.

And in case you are wondering who had the air time before me? Steve-O. As in THE Steve-O. When I found that out, the first thing I asked the producer was, “Does this mean I’m allowed to cuss? What is this show rated?!”

*No curse words were said during my segment. Don’t worry, this video is rated PG.

(HERE IS THE VIDEO. If you are reading in a reader, you will need to click through to my blog to see the video.) And remember… 40:20!

Enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. Fortunately I didn’t say anything too stupid.


     
Related Posts with Thumbnails