New update!!

Sorry to everyone for not being around with any exciting DIYs lately:( DH and I have been every busy with christmas and our biggest news this year.....We're having a baby!!!! Our newest addition is due August 2011.  Dan and I, and our family are very excited for the new arrival.

This of course means some changes are coming to our household. I still have a few finishing touches to do the guest room including the completion of the trim. Which will get done as I soon as I start the trim in the babies room. My office is being sacrificed for the baby which is sad but for great at the same time:)

Without further ado here is our new addition

Here are a few ideas we have for a nursery. We already have the dresser and am ordering the crib (but in black, not colour in pic) soon. Now just waiting to find out the gender:)

Here are a few nurserys I love.....

My newest obsession is this wall. I think for sure we're going to do this!!

Guest room update!!!

Guestbedroom update:)

Sorry I have been absent for the last week or so. I've had a million things going on with work and home so have been to busy to update and work on the guest room. But here are a few more pics. I'm almost done. Just have to finish the trim and crown, finish the side table and add a few accessories, oh and paint the closet doors white!

Without making you wait any further here are some pics:)

I could easily become obsessed if stripes could always be this easy!!!

So after completing our masterbedroom last week I decided that the guest room needed some dire attention. For the past 2.5 years guests have come and gone from that room with no complaints. The bed was comfy, what more could one ask for. The room never had any style and I felt it was very plain. Reminded me of a college bedroom that had a bed and that was about it. I started with getting a beautiful new bed set, thanks mom for the great birthday gift:) Then I found  3 mirrors for $5 each that made for a perfect headboard. Recently I've seen lots of stripes online and thought it would create a perfect accent wall behind the bed. Thats all I've really done so far. The walls are painted, half the crown and trim are done. The nightstand is being painted brown then heirloomwhite over top with distressing afterwards. Still have lots to do but here is a quick peak. I have some great dark wood and chrome lamps for the room too. I may also build some shelves using leftover crown....depends how much trim we have left.

Sidenote the green on the wall is a bit off from the bedding but I think it work perfectly with the right accents.

I will of course post more pics as things change in the room:) 

I was featured!!!

Worked night shift last night. Which on a quiet night in the ER is where I have found some of the greatest inspirations for the projects I have done in our house. So at 3am as my eyes were getting heavy I popped over to theDIYshowoff and low and behold wow there was my headboard and blog as a feature!!!! I'm so excited to be given the opportunity to share my projects with others:) Huge thank you to Roeshel for selecting my blog to be shown:)

I have some great new projects in my head and will start a few tomorrow:) Stay tuned for updates on these this week!

p.s. all I did for projects today was finish my dear husbands night stand. I spent the day with him stocking his new truck with snacks for his trips and linens for his sleeper:)

One man's trash is a smart women's treasure

A friend of ours recently down sized his furniture and had this beauty sitting outside on his front porch waiting to go to the dump....can you believe he was going to throw this out!! Sure it's old, dated, and slightly broken but it's just calling out for some needed love. So I promptly said hi to friend and stole his dresser before the garbage man got his hands on it:)

For this project you will need:

old beat up dresser

Sandpaper

White spray paint (Beauti-tone semi-gloass white)

Minwac English chestnut stain

polyurethane

Shop towels

wood glue (if drawer broken)

paint and stain stripper
trim
nail gun

I started by stripping the top. This took several coats of stripper. I then sanded it with 60 grit sand paper then 100 grit paper. I applied 3 coats of stain followed by 3 coats of polyurethane.

Before you do below steps cut trim to cover the bottom lip, scallops were in before but not now!

Then spray painted the whole body with white spray paint. Allow to dry thoroughly. Then apply stain to the whole thing, work in sections like front, side, and back. After you apply stain to section promptly wipe off with shop towel. Stain will darken the paint and pick up the more distressed areas. Do the same to the drawers. My drawers had a great inset in it that I left the stain in. You could wipe it out if you want to but I think it adds to it. I applied 2 coats of the stain to the body. I then got some new handles and painted them black.

And your done, easy I swear!

Master bedroom remodel...is almost done:)

When we first laid eyes on our house I thought it was perfect, not a thing to change! Well when you move to middle of no where with no friends or family except for your husband (who works alot) and dog you get bored easily. So I decided to take on some remodeling. This bedroom has been nothing but a frustrating experience as I could not figure out what to do. So here we are after 3 different paint colours:) I finally found one that I love and creates that warm cozy feeling I was looking for.

The room still needs crown molding and to have the trim finished. I also ordered a great vinyl saying to go above the bed but it hasn't arrived yet. Room should be done done by next week:)

Here is the almost finished room:

OMG can't believe I ever thought this colour was a good idea!! Dan should have slapped me before I decided to paint all four walls this colour. Three of them were promptly painted back to cream!

More after: 

The door to the left is 2 inches taller then the other doors...makes no sense I know, thanks to the crazy carpenter who according to my dad installed the door frame upside down because the door is also 2 inches off the floor???? The reason is why there is only trim at the top, I had the store cut the 14ft pieces down but they were too short for this door:( Ah I'll fix it next week:)

Headboard:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/search/label/headboard

This mirror was a tile mosaic mirror that we got as a wedding gift. The tiles were green to match that ugly colour I mentioned above so this had to remedied quickly. I applied the same finish to this that I did to lamp.

A few years ago I painted these nightstands black.....poor lack of judgement I know. Well I stripped them back down but left bits of the black left to add to the aged look. I stained them using the same stain as the dresser. The thing that bugged me about these night stands is they had no feet which made them too short for our king size bed. After shopping around and see that the legs were going to cost me $80 for the 8 I needed I got creative. I used some left over trim that we had in the garage and created my own legs - cost free!!! I think they turned out fantastic!

Revitalized dresser:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-mans-trash-is-smart-womens-treasure.html

New lamp:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/2010/11/from-old-to-new-then-back-to-old.html I thought my mom was going to kill me when she saw these pics but she said I'm still in the will and she'll forgive me:)

Key Keeper

I totally stole this idea from Roeshel at the DIY showoff. I love how simple it is. Who would have thought to use individual little dishes to hold your keys. I'm sure Dan will not like it but at least we can keep our keys sorted out:) I searched high and low for the right dishes and finally found these which work perfectly! Total cost $12 including modge podge and huge sheet of letters which will for sure be used for future projects.