Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted: May 9th, 2010 | Author: ab | Tags: ab, madeleine, Maw's Day

From me and my Maw.

And Madeleine and her Maw.

Bathroom Addition: Reno

Posted: March 26th, 2010 | Author: ab | Tags: bathroom, bathroom addition, demolition, hospital, House, madeleine, raging infections

You guys, I’m no hero. I’m just an ordinary citizen who is adding a bathroom to her house while her teenage daughter has been in the hospital with a kidney infection for 2 days.

Wait, I am TOTALLY a hero.

Workmen wait for no one, not even people who have to spend the night on hospital cots. The improvements continue apace. To wit:

1. Here is the original closet (check that wallpaper!). The other closet is behind the wall they knocked out to make the whole bathroom.

2. Yesterday (please note plumber’s butt).

3. And this morning.

4. A shot of the new closet that’s being built to replace the original closet(s). Y’all, they are making me CUSTOM METAL HANDLES for the doors. Can you EVEN?

This one’s for Erin, who needed some proof that I am not a decorating superhero. Our dining room. It has looked like this all week. Today, it looks worse. You’re welcome.

Thank you for all of your kind words on Twitter and elsewhere. The patient is feeling much better today, and I think we’ll all be home by Sunday.

Hooray!

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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Posted: August 1st, 2009 | Author: ab | Tags: bedroom, cute, decorating, House, madeleine, white

Before

My 5 year old child (she is actually 14 but that hurts to admit) is going to high school in a few weeks, so I decided she needed an all new big girl room design for her new big girl life. She went to a 3-week camp in mid-July, at which point Vince and I began working furiously to paint, refinish the floors, and redecorate her room. The whole thing was a big surprise, so I spent the last 3 weeks being alternately excited about the whole thing, and nervous that she would hate it. She didn’t. A lot.

Before

Admittedly, these are some awful before pictures (I had already started slinging stuff around, and the bed was originally against the opposite wall), but you get the idea. The walls/floor are the biggest improvements. They were in pretty bad shape.

I got most of the furniture at Ikea. Accessories/rugs are from various sources — Crate & Barrel, Urban Outfitters, eBay, thrifted.