My apartment

This is how our home [apartment] looks right now. Enjoy!

[sorry about the panorama shots, I don't have a fancy camera and wanted to show the whole room.]

So, totally not a professional, but, its MY style and I like it. There are alot of things I want to change up, mostly with the dark wood furniture, so, if I have it my way, its not going to look like this for long! Until next time...

xoxo,
Jackie

First House

before 

living room before

dining room before

kitchen before

downstairs bath and laundry before

stairs before

upstairs hallway before

upstairs guest bath before

upstairs hallway before

craft room before

master bedroom before

master bath and closet before

Its fall y'all

I got everything unpacked, and for the most part, put away. I am starting work on my master bedroom makeover so that isnt going to be shown for a bit but I wanted to throw out a little fall home tour for ya. I usually dont decorate for specific holidays/seasons. Even for Christmas, Ill put up a tree and some stockings and call it a day, but this year I really want to go all out. I didnt spend much money at all, mostly because I use coupons and shop sales only but I did get alot and the house is feeling so cozy, now all we need is some real fall weather and Ill be happy.

xoxo, 

Jackie

One week in.

I really didnt believe I would have as much done as I do, but I blame it on the fact that Zack isnt here, and Im super bored. I started painting Wednesday night after work. I figured Id just do the dining room but once I got started and saw the transformation it was making I couldn't stop! I ended up doing the dining room and cutting in the entire living room that night. The next morning I got up bright and early and rolled the living room. It feels like it took forever but man, it was well worth it! This living room started out so dark brown that I was almost black. It was like a black hole and I was really concerned that I would end up having to do two or three coats just to cover but it actually covered in ONE coat! I was pleasantly surprised and will definitely be buying this paint again. In case anyone is wondering the color is Valspar's Frappe. On the swatch this color looks more beige/greige but in real life its straight up grey. We painted a swatch on every wall before moving in so we could see the color in every light at every angle and I'm so glad we did. At first I hated it, I thought it was too dark and too blue but after a few days it really grew on me and once I finished the first wall in the dining room I was in love. This color isn't dark at all and its the perfect grey, it really us beautiful and I cant wait to see it with my decor all put out.So, without further ado here are the before and afters! 

It is so light and bright now, it feels like a completely different house! The power of paint is amazing!

xoxo,

Jackie

We've moved!

We are finally in the new house and its so amazing. We have non-stop been working to fix it up and there's still a lot to do but I wanted to at least show the before pictures and give a little update as well. So, Zack and I came over on Tuesday and got a lot of yard work done. The back yard has three large bushes that probably haven't been trimmed in over a year, and the yard itself was covered in dog feces from the former renter so we cleaned it all up, mowed, trimmed one of the bushes and pulled a ton of weeds, it looks a 100 times better already. We also found this pretty rose hidden in the back.

Then, on Wednesday it was official moving day. We got all our stuff moved into the garage since the carpets were horrendous and needed a good shampooing and the whole house needed a major deep clean. We got all the cleaning done that night including shampooing the carpets and they looks so much better! Most of the stains, not all, but MOST came out, I swear Folex is amazing. If you ever have a tough spot you should definitely try it! Anyways, Once the house was clean we moved everything into the actual house and started on projects! Our first projects was to change out the hideous light fixtures and whats funny is, we didn't go with ANY of the original selections we made. We were in Lowes to pick up the glass pendant I originally wanted and we spotted this cute chandelier in the clearance section with no price on it. I called over one of the workers and asked him how much and he told me $40. A total steal.

There wasn't anything wrong with it except someone had cut the ground wire really short and probably couldn't figure out how to fix it so they returned it and it worked for us since we weren't hanging our light low, so we got it, along with the pendant. When we got home that night Zack put up the chandelier. It was his first time changing a light fixture and it went  without an issue, that is until we tried to do the pendant. As soon as I opened the box I noticed that the glass dome, that was supposed to be clear, was blue. I'm talking blue blue. By this time it was late and Lowes was closed so we just ended up returning it the next day and going with something completely different. It was a blessing in disguise that the glass one didn't work because I really love the little lantern one we chose instead. It plays so well off the chandelier!

before and after 

before and after 

both lights 

I also changed the two boob lights to simple drum lamp shades and it made a big difference as well.

boob lights changed 

So for now that's all the major things we've done. There have been a lot of little odds and ends things but nothing worth blogging, but painting starts Thursday so there will definitely be something good soon but for now Ill leave this post with a bunch of terrible cell phone before pics....

master 

master bathroom 

guest bath upstairs 

upstairs hall 

upstairs hall and office 

office 

living room 

living room 

dining nook 

dining and kitchen 

kitchen 

guest bath/laundry room downstairs 

xoxo,
Jackie