Saturday, September 12, 2009

More a home than a house now....

We've been so busy since school started that we haven't had a lot of time to work on the house. Peter's been dutifully watering and mowing, so the yard looks great, but not much else has changed at the house.

I never took Home Ec in high school, I opted instead to take Band and Drama. Those were fun at the time, but haven't been a lot of help when it comes to decorating our house. I wanted some curtains, but as funds are pretty low, we haven't been able to buy any.

So, I commissioned my mom to help me learn how to sew over Labor Day weekend. "How hard can it be to make curtains?" I thought. (What an idiot).

Let me preface this by saying I've never used a sewing machine before. I'd seen mom do it plenty of time growing up, so I thought I got the general idea. But, seeing and doing are two VERY different things.

We set out on Saturday morning to Hobby Lobby to get material and came back with some really cute stuff. Our kitchen cabinets don't have doors, so I wanted to make curtains to cover them to keep out the dust and for general cuteness. I also wanted to make valances for the two windows.

Before mom and I set out for Hobby Lobby, Peter, mom and I went to Lowe's and Home Depot to check out their holiday sales. We had already gotten an awesome faucet for a great price, so we were in desperate need for a new bathroom sink and vanity.

We found a great one at Home Depot for under $79.99. We'd already gotten our faucet for $16 (it's a Moen and it was originally $128!), so we did our new bathroom stuff for less than a hundred bucks. I thought we did great!

While we were there we also got a new bedroom door (we didn't have one at all. The last renters Peter had got in a fight and punched a hole in it, so he took it down). We also got some cute little lights to go around the stepping stones to our front door.

Since our house has two "front" doors, (and the other one goes into our bedroom), we're trying to do things to let people know which door to come in.

All in all, we did lots of cute things and the house is looking really nice! Pics below!


A side view of our new vanity (with cool faucet) and our bathroom cabinet.

Close up of the vanity and faucet

Our awesome steal of a faucet!

A view of one of the cabinet curtains with the valance.


A closer view of the cabinet curtain (trimmed in the material the valances were made from).
Mom did these curtains, I did the valances.


My first thing I sewed all by myself!


Our new footlights for outside.