Showing posts with label #TheCoatsHome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #TheCoatsHome. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2018
CURTAINS + VALANCES
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
LIFE LATELY | JULY 2018
A little over a month ago Matthew and packed up our house and moved in with his parents for three weeks so that we could have our floors done (!!!!!). On June 22nd my BIL, Nathan, came over and helped us move all of our furniture into our garage and then helped us pull up all the old flooring (laminate and carpet). It was a reallllllly long and exhausting day, but we got most of it done by late that afternoon. Matthew and I finished the remaining up on Sunday.
That Saturday (the 23rd.) Matthew and I went and picked up our hardwood. It was extremely heavy, but it was exciting and we knew we were getting close to having the beautiful new floors that we had been saving up for.
Matthew's parents so graciously let us stay with them and fed us for a little over three weeks. We are so thankful for them and for that time we got to spend with them over those three weeks. As expected, there were setbacks and things didn't get finished by deadlines. We went by the house almost every day to check on the progress and got more and more excited as time went on. We got to move back into our house on our anniversary (7/18). Such a sweet day!
I haven't had time to take some good pictures of our house since we have had all of furniture moved back in and our house officially put back together, but I did take pictures each time we came to check on the house during those three weeks, to document the process.
My office
the living room
One of the guest bedrooms
Our bedroom
Upstairs hallway
Our closet
stairs/entryway
Guest bedroom
And our garage, where we moved all of our furniture to. This is when they had it only half full. I never got around to taking a picture when the garage was completely full.
Some pictures of when they started laying the hardwood and laying the tile
We had tile put down in our master bathroom, guest bathroom and laundry room and we LOVE it. This is the tile we chose.
We are so excited to have our floors done. We have been wanting to do this since the day we bought our house, so worth the wait! We also decided that we want to paint all the baseboards and trim in our house. We painted all the trim and baseboards downstairs last week and we are going to start upstairs next week. It takes some time, but we are just taking it one room at a time. The stairs were the hardest to do, but they look so much better now that it's finished.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
PATIO | BEFORE & AFTER
In this picture you can see the difference between the clean side (left), the clean, but still painted area (very middle), and the dirty and still painted side (right).
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
#THECOATSHOME: PLATE WALL
Our plate wall is finished and I love it! I have been talking about doing a plate wall since we got married and finally got around to doing it.
I started off with taping paper plates to our dining room wall to decide on the layout. They ended up staying up a little longer than I wanted because things kept coming up and I wanted to make sure that was exactly the layout I wanted, and it was! After a lot of research, I decided on and used these plate hangers, and so far they have held up perfectly.
When it came time to hang the actual plates up I laid them all out on the floor with the same layout and numbered them. I also numbered the paper plates on the wall and then added one plate at a time.
It took a lot of measuring and hopping off the chair to stand back and look after each individual plate was added, but it was worth it.
And since I never got around to sharing the other wall in our dining room, here it is. Matthew gifted me this beautiful sign for Valentine's Day this year and we both love it! It's a Bob Dylan song and the theme song from Parenthood. #parenthoodforever
I am happy to say that after a little over two years in our home we now have one room completely finished (excluding floors, hardwood floors will come one day)! To see what our dining room looked like when we moved in and all of the updates we have made since then go here, here, and here.
These plates are just a few of the many that were used at our wedding almost three years ago. I am so happy to have them up and the sweet memories that they hold.
To see all other posts in #TheCoatsHome series go here.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
#THECOATSHOME: POWDER ROOM MAKEOVER
I am finally getting a chance to share our powder room makeover. I posted our powder room inspiration here, and we ended up going with one of the wallpapers from that post. I am so happy with how it turned out, but I would be completely remiss not to give all credit to my dad for this project. My dad did the wallpaper and it looks amazing. I tried to do it myself, because how hard can it be, right? Joke was on me, for sure. Not only was it difficult, but our powder room is incredibly small, as most are.
I fell in love with this wallpaper and knew it had to go somewhere in our home. I thought it would be perfect for our powder room, since it's a smaller room and thought this would make it pop.
Here is the before - what it looked like when we moved in. Tan paint, textured wallpaper on the bottom half with a tropical border in the middle- connecting the paint and wallpaper. It wasn't completely awful, but it wasn't something I would have loved to have in our home forever.
There was also a plastic paper towel holder on the wall behind the toilet (you can see the holes in the wall below) when we moved in...not sure why they chose that location, but we took the paper towel holder down the weekend we moved in.
And the after!!!! We ended up picking up this mirror at Bed, Bath and Beyond and love it.
Also, can I just say that it was pretty difficult to take pictures of such a small area!
I love the way it turned out! Wallpaper can make such huge difference. In the future, we plan on hanging a few shelves on the back wall, above the toilet, and adding a couple of prints on them.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
ECLIPSE DAY 2017
Everyone's talking about it, so I'm sure some people are already over it, buuuuuut it was incredibly cool and a once-in-a-lifetime experience....so I am doing a full recap of our Eclipse Day!
We both decided to work from home since there were about 1.5 MILLION extra people making their way to Nashville for the day. Fighting all that traffic just didn't sound too appealing.
I woke up and cooked some omelets for breakfast and then we both got to work. My office is upstairs in our home and Matthew's office is downstairs, and Reagan could not decide who she wanted to hangout with so she hung out on the stairway between the two of us lol.
I wrapped up a conference call and ran outside with Matthew to view the initial contact. We downloaded a pretty cool app that had a timer on it and told us when everything was happening. Best $2 we've ever spent on an app!
After we saw the first initial contact happen we came back in and worked a little and would go back out and check every little bit until it was close to totality time.
After hearing a ton of horror stories online, I was pretty skeptical about the whole thing. I have awful vision already so I didn't want to ruin it anymore, but I did read that if you take a break from looking at it (with your glasses on, obviously) every few seconds then you would be okay. Fingers crossed that's true, ha!
Loved all of the filters for Eclipse Day!
And then it started getting darker!! We could hear the birds starting to chirp, crickets, our neighbors, and the timer counting down. When we hit full totality we heard a ton of people in our neighborhood cheering. It was one of the coolest experiences we have ever experienced.
So incredibly cool, literally, the temperature dropped and we stopped sweating for a full two minutes. Pure beauty right there.
The coolest day with the coolest (& cutest) guy, ever!
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