still here, just wicked busy

Knee-deep in renovating the mud room and the laundry room, a surprise I really hope my husband likes when he returns from Afghanistan.  Shhhhhhh!

Of course nothing puts the fire under you to renovate like upcoming house guests!  Both my sisters are flying in for a little fun in muddy Maine time at the end of the month.  Do they care that my mudroom (used to) look like shite?  No, not really.  But I do.  The mudroom and the laundry room are the last two rooms downstairs that still bare the former owners style.  Or lack there of.

Take a peek at what I’ve been up to:

Nice and sunny isn’t it?  Impossible to not be happy in this mudroom.  Before, very understandable if one was a bit cross or ugly BUT NOW, no excuse!  Notice the little nook that wasn’t being used before for anything but storing buckets of mud?  I’m now filling it with shelves for all that paperwork that currently finds itself adhering to my kitchen island.

Tonight I’ll be putting another coat of trim paint on.  Can you believe the blueberry trim that was in there?  That was also the trim in my kitchen before too.  Dark and dreary!  Let me see if I can find you a before pic…

Isn’t that nice?  It’s really too bad that I don’t have a shot of what’s behind me, there’s a lot of wood work and it’s all that dark, dark blue.

Here’s an idea of what I’ve done with it.

Still a lot to do but at least it’s bright and cheery now!

Here’s the wall now, imagine all that wood DARK BLUE!

Now I just have to finish the trim and the edging in the mudroom and put all the shelves up and then it’s on to the laundry room!

What about you, what have you been doing with your spring feverishness?