Family Room Reveal!

Matt and I have been working very hard for the past few weeks on our family room. We started out by getting a new couch.. that didn't fit in our basement. It's a giant sectional. But Matt and I are determined people and we made it fit. And we may have made a giant hole in the wall and chopped the couch in half to do so. But we did it. 

Here is a picture of our house before we moved in. The picture doesn't do justice on how bad the carpet was. I am pretty sure we got high off of illegal substances when we ripped out the carpet in that room. 

And here is the family room after we moved in. We painted the walls and got new carpet. Poppa K did his magic on the fire place area and laid some amazing tile. But as for decor, we were very lacking. Notice our beautiful DI couches, with no legs.

The room was just so boring. We debated over a bunch of different ideas, and we had many project fails until we finally came up with a winner!

We ended up doing some more wainscotting/board and batten. Since we had a ton left over from our kitchen it went up super quick. Whoever built this house did not know anything about sanding down dry wall seams. So we designed the board and batten to hit right at the seam so you can't see it anymore. Instead of fixing it, we just cover it up. That's how we roll. 

We framed some of Grandpa J's art work that my parents gave us for Christmas. It looks so good in the room and happened to fit perfectly in our $4 DI frame!

I made some framed hearts. Matt says they are too girly. Well too bad, because I like them.

Our coolest find was this light fixture thing. Our neighbor died (I didn't even know anyone lived in the house) and her family was having an estate sale (come to find out that she didn't actually die, she went to a nursing home. Matt got chatty with the family and got the real story, meanwhile I am spreading rumors that she died). Anyway, so we checked out the sale and there wasn't really anything cool. Then we stumbled upon this gem. There wasn't a price tag so I asked the guy if it was for sale and how much it was. He didn't know so he had to ask. Meanwhile I said very loudly " I wouldn't pay more than $10 for that thing. It's definitely not worth more than $10!" He fell into my trap and we got it for $10! We threw on some spray paint and hung that bad boy up! The best part is that it plugs into the wall, so no tricky electrical work required.

 It was another exhausting weekend, but we had so much fun making our family room feel more like a family room.

Spring Break? More like Spring Busy!

We've been bizy beavers as usual around here!  A few weeks ago, when the weather was starting to turn good, Matt came home and told me he was going to paint the shed that weekend. He was all geared up to get painting, then it snowed. But snow doesn't stop him, nothing stops him once he's put him mind to it! 

Here is the before of the shed in the corner. It also doubles as Shaiya's pent house.

 And here is the after of the shed. He even re-roofed the entire thing! Matt literally did everything while I was at work, I didn't lift a finger on this project.  I don't call him my Boy Toy for nothing!

In other news, Matt turned the big 24! We had quite the celebration! I love love love to spoil Matt. I knew I wanted to buy him a bike for his birthday, and so did he. He just kept telling me how much he wanted a bike for his birthday. But I also couldn't help my self from buying him a few other things, I think I may be addicted to buying things for Matt. 

Here he is with all his presents. Yes, I bought him a steam mop. Yes, I want him to do all the mopping. And yes, he loved it. I also got him a remote control helicopter. He was giddy with excitement about it. He broke it  2 days later. But it lasted 2 days longer than I thought it would.

His dinner request was steak. He only wanted steak. So steak it was! He couldn't stop talking about how much he loves steak. 

He also got his weight in candy, from me and from my family. He loves candy! The candy was gone in less than a week.

Last week was Matt's spring break, it wasn't really a break for him since we spent the majority of the week trying to fit a couch in our basement. But we did get away to St. George and Vegas for a few days. 

The first night we got to hang out with S&J and G-baby. 

It's weird that neither Scott or Jen have blue eyes... and Matt's eye's look just like Gracie's. So weird....

We played some killer frisbee at a park for a while.

Then we went on a sweet bike ride.

We hung out with this guy for a while in Vegas. He was a hoot!

  We got poured on while we made the 2.5 mile speed walk back to our hotel.

Even though the weather wasn't the best, we still had a lot of fun!

 I'll be finishing up our family room this weekend (hopefully)  and Matt has huge plans for the backyard (I'm hoping none of them involve me helping out). We'll post pics once we're all done!