Updating the Master Bedroom!

So. Our room is great! Absolutely love it!

There is just one little thing that is driving us bananas. THE PINE WOOD TRIM around every single window and door.

Windows/Balcony Door

Closet Doors/Balcony Door

Windows on back wall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

So as you can see, there is a lot of it! And we want the modern look which is nearly impossible to achieve when you have trim surrounding literally everything.

We brainstormed and came up with several ideas. Paint the trim. Stain the trim. Put smaller trim around everything. Or simply no trim at all except the floor.

We chose the last option. This option is also the most expensive and time consuming to complete.

We removed the trim around the doors window and floor. It took about 3 hours for my husband and I to finish. That includes carrying those huge wood pieces with nails sticking out of them all the way to the garage across the house.

When we finished, I nearly had a heart attack after looking around the room and realizing what we had done. 1. We just bought this house a month ago. 2. This is one hell of a project to start with and complete. 3. Now what do we do.

So here is where we are at now...

Here is what we are going for...

Anyways so we had a professional come out and give us a quote for the work that needed to be done. We were originally going to do the work ourselves but why make it a 6-8 week job that might look okay when we could make it a 1-2 week job that will look great. The professional gave us a reasonable quote to make it look all pretty, so he starts tomorrow!

So we bought a house!

After 5 years of living in VA and renting homes, we finally did it. Let's face it. John and I have way too many kids to be renting a home and attempting to keep it nice enough through the lease to get our security deposit back in full.

Now, don't get me wrong...We like to have nice things and keep our home nice but if something breaks in a rental, like say a shelf being pulled off the wall from hanging on it or a whole top floor being flooded from putting a whole roll of toilet paper in the toilet, the urge and want to fix it isn't quite there.

For one thing, you don't feel like fixing a home that does not belong to you. Second of all, you are already paying the landlords mortgage, so you don't really have the desire to spend more money.

So anyways, our previous lease ended and we decided it was time to buy a home and make it a permanent move.

While searching on Redfin.com (awesome site with actual mls listings that you can browse for free), we found 'the one.' It stole our breath away and we were done with our search.

We decided to drive by it first before considering moving forward with it and the process of buying a home.

It was love at first site for me. It is so hard to find a modern home in Northern VA. Most of the homes in the area are a big square box, colonial, or Victorian. This house had just the look and feel that we wanted. It has the bones and potential to be that modern pad we have always wanted to own.

So we bought it!