Ahhh home improvements

We've been so lucky to have been able to make some big home improvement to our house since we moved in, in April 2010. We've redone the bathroom from top to bottom, ripped up the carpets and redid the hardwood floors and most recently renovated our kitchen! All necessary improvements and we're enjoying all the updates!

Next up on our list are smaller scaled improvements but to me, just as important :) The first is one I've wanted to do since we've moved in - change/update the shutters and paint the trim of the house white! It's pretty funny that I didn't notice this until our new neighbor pointed it out a month after we moved in, but our shutters had squirrel cut-outs in them - yup, squirrels! Ehhh, not cool. Brian was able to easily get the shutters down one night after work and has primed the new ones. I'm hoping that this weekend while we're home he'll be able to paint the new ones and get them up, but we've got a lot to do this weekend so I realize that might be a tad ambitious. One can hope right? I can't wait until the shutters are up and trim is painted, I know it'll be the perfect face lift!

We've also done lots and lots of organizing around the house and a few weekends ago threw out about 6 bags of junk that we'd accumulated over the last few years. Boy, did that feel good! We've switched our closets around and are ready to start turning our spare room into a nursery! Tonight, it's a grey room, that is almost empty, with a "desk" for our laptop but in a few short weeks, it'll be painted a light green or yellow and have a crib!

Here are pics of what we've been working on!

Before - any yard work last year

 (can you see the squirrels??)

During - I prefer no shutters to the squirrels!!

The soon-to-be nursery!