Jacquelyn's Space

Home improvements and other improvements (hopefully, maybe).

Big things are happening at our house. It started with a new roof. Not too exciting but necessary.

Then we got a whole wall unit (closet/dresser/entertainment center) installed in our master bedroom. We redecorated the master bedroom as well. I chose a coral color paint with accents of teal. The colors are giving me a 1960s vibe but I am loving it! We got new matching nightstands for more storage as well as matching fancy lamps and mirrors. My husband installed new laminate flooring in the bedroom and we got some nice rugs. I wanted our room to have a more hotel-like ambiance; it would have that if we had a maid to make the bed and clean up after our messy butts.

My husband, one who never wants to be without a project and who cannot seem to relax, then decided to expand our patio by 8 feet. It is now about 26′ by 16′ off of our sliding door. It needed it because we were blessed with a hot tub by his sister and our brother-in-law. My husband added all new patio furniture and a smokeless firepit. Now we have the firepit and our old chiminea and it makes it nice a cozy out there…if the mosquitos would leave us alone!

Next up was our guest bathroom. My husband painted, put in new waterproof laminate flooring, new toilet, and a new vanity and mirror. He left the tub/shower alone because we hardly ever use it and it doesn’t look too bad. The whole bathroom came together nice. I picked a beachy blue color for in there and I have to finish it with some decorating touches. I am just thankful our old bathroom mirror came down in one piece because 7 years of bad luck we did not need. My husband and I have had enough bad luck to last a lifetime, haha.

We are going to re-do our master bathroom in the near future. I have the paint color picked–an aqua–but I have to pick out the rest of the fixtures/cabinets, and flooring. I think we will get to that after we are done with the rest of the house.

We have a new paint color picked out for our family room and my husband wants to put laminate waterproof flooring in there too. Oh yeah, we bought a new fancy reclining couch and reclining rocker for our family room. We just need to clean it out and maybe rethink the other furniture in that room because it has sort of become a catch-all room for furniture we took out of our bedroom (the family room and our spare rooms are catch-all rooms). We have laminate flooring to put in our other spare room, one we use as an office. The flooring in all the rooms on that side of the house (that wing, lol) will all match. We (or he, because it is my husband doing the work) had redone our biggest spare room for my nephew a couple of years ago with new flooring, new paint, and new furniture. Now that my nephew is gone, I am trying to organize that into my doll room and get it ready for slumber parties with my granddaughters and my niece. More on that later.

Now we are looking at getting new windows. That’s the next big home project. My brother came over and measured for those yesterday. He brought my niece Vada who is going to be 4 in July. I am trying to repair my relationship with my brother. This requires me to bite my tongue quite a bit, and practice a mostly Zen like demeanor. I have been practicing that for many years now and I am getting better and better. I may even be near expert level, ha. But we had a good time yesterday. I enjoyed spending time with my niece. I had some gifts for her from past Christmases so I got to unload those on her. She didn’t seem too interested in them though, but perhaps she was just feeling a little shy at first. As I always have plenty of toys on hand (I am so grateful to be THAT person!) I busted out the remote control Barbie car I bought for my favorite baby doll and my niece really got a kick out of crashing that around the new patio furniture. My baby doll had a blast too, even though I gave her car away and she lost her leg a few times and may have sustained a closed head injury. It’s all in the name of improvements though.