What I Am Loving Wednesday!! and Wandering Wednesdays!!

So, today I am linking up with Paisley Passions Wandering Wednesdays, so head on over and check out her blog.

I am also linking up with Jamie for her What I am Loving Wednesdays, because I am loving sooo many things today :)

So, the first thing I am LOVING is that I am done reno-ing!!! ( I mean as much done as we can be for now I still have plans to paint the bathrooms, and we still have to put the flooring down in the office... but for the most part we are done reno-ing for the next couple of weeks!!) I love that our weekends are going to be our own again, and we can just chill out and hang out with Hannah, I've missed this girl, even though she was here all weekend, my mom was watching her while we were busy doing the cabinets.

I am loving that Allison from is loving her necklace she won from Ashley at Life As I Know It, made by me (you can read all about that here and here). Thanks for your kind words Allison, I am glad you like it!!

I am also loving all my new followers, and I love getting new followers as well as finding new blogs to follow myself, as I am new to this blogging world. So feel free to leave me a comment if you are following my blog and I'll be glad to follow you back.

I LOVE the look of our main floor now in all it's renovated glory. This is just what we imagined when we bought this house, so I am soo glad we have seen it through. I mean we went from this

To this

Don't you just love it??

I am also loving the gorgeous weather we have been getting here, it was 24 degrees Celsius plus humidity on Sunday, it was soo beautiful, Hannah had lots of fun outside with Grandma!!

And last but not least I am loving this girl, I was snapping the after pics of the kitchen (and the pantry behind her), and she was babbling on and I wasn't really listening, and then I clued in as she got louder and louder "CHEESE MOMMA CHEESE!!!!!" and this is the smile she gave me.... How could I not take a picture of that....

And then she followed it up with this silly face that I had never seen her make before...

I cannot even express how much I love this girl.....

So, how about you what are you loving today??

Amy

After Pics!! Great Room and Hallway!! Manic Monday!!

So, yet again, we pulled it off!! We refloored our entire main floor in just two short weekends!! And better yet I couldn't be happier with the results!! We started off the weekend by emptying the pantry and my (SUPER FRIGGEN HEAVY) china cabinet, relocating these items throughout the house (if you wanted pantry food you had to go to the office... good fun... lol....not so much... but hey like I said it looks amazing!!

Saturday morning Ash and Mike came over and helped take up the old laminate flooring (as they are going to reuse it in there master bedroom as its still in great shape (only three years old). Then Eric got cracking on the floor, starting around 3pm (by the time all the prep work was done), and floored straight through until 10pm, when we could finally start moving some furniture (namely said SUPER HEAVY china cabinet) back into the great room, so we could go to bed (as all the china was chillin on our bed).

Sunday morning we got up and Eric started putting down all the quarter round I tediously painted Saturday afternoon. Then he went to work on the shelving for our pantry. We used to just have two shelves sitting inside the closet that for some odd reason had a hanging bar (despite not being close to the front door), which was a huge pain in the butt, as stuff always fell behind the shelves and was never seen again (until Friday night ...). We made the discovery I had purchased the wrong kind of track(with the guidance of a Home Depot associate), so we had to head back to the store to buy the right one (with only an hour to spare before the store closed). This is the point in the story to note that it was 8 degrees celcius out all weekend (quite nice), so we literally grabbed Hannah and the track and ran out the door. We got about 15 minutes from home and noticed it the sky looked dark behind us, and Eric commented that he hoped it didn't rain as the saw we had been using to cut all the flooring was still outside on the deck (waiting to be used to cut the pantry shelves...). Que the rain, not even a minute later rain drops splashed on our windshield. We decided it was going to be a super quick trip into Home Depot, so we went in got the right stuff (all of which took maybe 15 minutes), walked out of Home Depot and we are in a freaking blizzard. It was now snowing hard. GREAT!! We drove home as quickly as the weather would allow, and rescued our soaking wet saw, and we wondered if it was going to work, as it was clearly wet. So Eric blew it out with his air compressor, and fired it up. AND IT WORKED!!! YAY!! Thank goodness. So he finished up the pantry, we moved the rest of the furniture back in and Eric was supposed to relax as I reorganized the pantry. But someone had other plans for him, he'd just sat down on the couch and put his feet up, and BEEP!!BEEP!!!BEEP!!, his fire pager went off, car crash on the 401, out he goes, is gone about an hour comes home, says he's going to take a shower, is in the bedroom getting his stuff ready and BEEP!!!!BEEP!!!BEEP!!! (again...ugh), another car accident. Off he goes, out for another hour, finally home and really hoping for a good nights rest. Lucklily, no more calls for the night, we had a hydro outage, due a to a freak thunderstorm?? (sun, rain, snow and thunder all in one day WHAT?!!). But here are my beautiful floors!! I love them.... although Hannah has wiped out on them a few times this morning....

Looking down the hall... probably my favorite view....

dining area

can't wait to see these cabinets expresso next weekend....

New shelves in the pantry

now filled up

much better!!!

So, that's my reno weekend, so thrilled that it is done, only one more reno to go, we saved the best for last!! Stay tuned later this week for the before pics of the kitchen!! I'm linking up with Ashley at Life As I Know It for her Manic Mondays, so head on over here and link up and tell her what you did this weekend!!

Amy

Before Pics - Great Room

So we are gearing up for our flooring installation this weekend throughout the hallway and the great room (which encompasses the family room and dining room). Right now we have a combination of carpet and laminate flooring, and I can't wait to have it all match our recently redone master bedroom and Hannah's room (which you can read about here). So here are the before shots:

This is shot standing in the kitchen looking into the great room....

Again standing in the kitchen looking at the pantry door and down the hallway to the bedrooms

Our fireplace (and Hannah's toy bin....)

The china cabinet I am not looking forward to emptying

The hallway leading to the bedrooms, why they carpeted it I'll never know, as the first door on the left hand side in the main floor bathroom.... then the linen closet....

BYE BYE CARPET.....

Standing at the window looking at the front door....

Standing at the fireplace looking at the dining area....

Dining area again...

Dining area again leading out to our deck and patio (Lucky suntanning)

Standing at the fireplace looking towards the kitchen (can't wait to Rustoleum those cabinets next weekend)

So, those are my before pics, check back Monday for the afters, I am soo thrilled for this renovation. It's going to look amazing.

So our plans for this weekend are as following:

• Tonight my mom is coming to watch Hannah (and Eric is working afternoons) so I will be painting all the quarter round in the garage
• Tonight I will also be emptying the china cabinet
• Tonight I will also be emptying the pantry, which the before pic is super-scary and I'm not sure I'm ready to share it... you saw my other closets.... but on the upside, we are looking into getting a better organized system for in there as well (to be installed hopefully Sunday)
• Saturday morning, Mike and Ash are coming over to help remove the flooring and the furniture
• Eric starts the flooring and hopefully completes it all on Saturday
• Sunday install quarter round and go to Home Depot to get shelving for the pantry

So that's my weekend in a nutshell, it's going to look a lot like last weekend in here, disastrous, but it is soo worth it!! Hope everyone has a great weekend and check back Monday for the After pics!!

Amy

After Pics - Master Bedroom and Hannah's bedroom, and the closets!!!

Well, here they are.... as promised....

The floor in its natural glory

Master bedroom closet organizer (empty)

Other side of the master bedroom closet

Bed After

you can see in this shot the bevelled edges of the floor and how nice it matches our furniture

sneak peak of the super-organized-always-gonna-be-this-way closet



Had to include this super cute shot of the monkey and daddy before bed...



wow - do u see that organization??

you can see the floor!!!!!

And now onto Hannah's bedroom after.....

Hannah's closet after... much better ...

you can see the floor in here too!!!

So that's my reno is a nutshell? What do you think?

Amy