Kids and Togetherness

 It's no secret that I want at least one more baby.  And for some reason, I am in love with the idea of them all sharing a room.  I want them to be BEST friends, I never want them to have their own room, at least share with their same gendered sibling.

 I never in my life want to hear "Get out of MY room". It is their room, "our" room.

Ok, the bedding in the last picture is REALLY bad, but I love the layout!!

Ok, maybe when they are tWeenagers I'll let them have a girl room and boy room, LOL.  They can all sleep in one place (of course change clothes in the bathroom), and homeschool together in another room.  I think it will be alot easier to keep clean without school supplies scattered about, and putting away laundry.

Being a part of this Rhyne Brine is a team sport, the better  you know your team mates, the more games you will win.  I want them to be together, to whisper to each other at night about whatever is on their minds, to all learn in the same room, the older to help the younger ones.  This is my dream!!

Presentation, presentation, presentation

My mom always taught me: Food tastes better when it is well presented.  As I am receiving more and more orders for paint jobs from my ETSY STORE, I thought it was time to bring it to a new level..

So I've been upping my game as far as my mail order paintings are concerned.

So I painted the crown at the top and wrapped it in a pretty ribbon.  What do you think?

I thought it would be a nice present to be waiting on your front porch!!

12 hour Office Redo

 
So Redneck (I call him that because his head is buried in the computer so much, that is all I ever see of him) got flown out to San Diego to meet with a head haucho about the computer application he's building.  We (me and 3 very tired lil' babes) had him  at the airport at 7:30am and he would be home at 10:00pm that same day.  So that gave me from 9am to 9 pm to work on his office.  So I called in the reinforcements, my awesome mother and father in law. They drove an hour (one way) to come help me paint and watch the kids.  What a life saver!!

Stephen works from home, which I love and so does he. I just always feel so bad that his office has never been touched with a paintbrush, especially when he spends so much time in it.

And I sort of expanded my "storage area" to the  back corner of his office.

It was about time to shove it all into the attic space.  One thing I love about old houses, they utilize every bit of space possible.

And the worst part, the window / window trim.  So bad, no caulk, too thin, puke!
So without further ad-due..

We gave it a nice grey blue color and built new window trim.  You may reconize the oar above the window that I carved for him for Father's Day. You can read about that post HERE.

Put up a drawing Redneck's late grandfather drew (who was also an architect).

And packed away all the boxes of cords and books. Put up a drawing from 2004, I did my sophomore year at UW for architecture school.

Fridge loaded with ice coffees.

But most importantly, the new window trim. He stares out this window all day, ok, not really all day, probably a glance here and there when he is thinking about a new coding string, but still.

I had 12 hours. And ZERO money (leftover paint and molding)... So I think it turned out pretty good.
(Still needs bookshelves and a new desk, but for for new, it'll do til we can build his outdoor office)

Office Dreams

I've been thinking a lot about hubby's office lately. It's disguising. Poor guy!

I wish he had a nice area to work in, working from home and all, I want to make it as awesome as possible. Hopefully next summer we'll have THIS built for him in the backyard.

Fingers crossed!

Drip drip drip

When we moved in to our 1916 home, the kitchen faucet dripped, and dripped. We wrapped rubber bands around the handle to the spout to try to keep it from dripping, nothing worked.

Redneck was getting quite annoyed as I replaced the back slider, and built a front porch but didn't replace the faucet. 

Truth be told, I want an AWESOME faucet, don't know exactly which one yet, but know I definitely don't have money for it and don't want to pay for one I don't particularly like.
I've been stalking FREE craigslist as always, and finally was quick enough to snag this one.

I know, it's not super cool but it works and does NOT drip.

It even came with an awesome sink but I decided I didn't want and am trying to give away on CL, dang no-show people. ERG.

Anyone in the Seattle area want a cast iron sink?

Laundy Room Progress

Remodeling a laundry with 3 kids, a husband and lots of laundry is not fun. Let me tell you.

So here we are before

Vinyl siding gone. Awesome lapboard wood siding probably with lead paint... still cool though. (I saved the wall under the windows)

Windows gone

Wall gone. Please notice that 4x4 post. It supported the roof line. I had to put a matching 4x4 post next to it to support the weight, remove the old one and move it down 5', to where the end of the door was.  Glad I went to architecture school or I'd probably have a laundry room disaster.

And here is the outside (still need to adjust / move the vinyl siding).

Did I mention this beautiful SOLID WOOD 8' sliding door was FREE. Had to drive an hour to get it, but so worth it.
I will also be wiring another light to go on the right side of the door, so there will be matching lights on both sides.

And onto the inside

Before (realtor shot with fish hook lense that I don't have)

More realistic before

And after.
I will be putting a shelf above dryer, with a large mirror and accessorizing.

I found this AWESOME milk can with a spigot. I'm going to put liquid laundry soap in it, well if the craigslister emails me back. I want it so bad.

And I'll also be putting in this great washboard. Then probably a small tin for dryer lint, a rectangle tin for dryer sheets, and a large vase with flowers.

Eventually we will be  putting stackable washer / dryer where the dryer is and why we didn't put another window on the small wall. Then where the washer / hot water heater (replaced by instant hot) are will be counter space.

Laundry Room Dreams

I have been very busy with the laundry room.  We got a 8' solid wood sliding glass door for FREE and I have been ripping out walls, moving supporting beams, rebuilding the walls around it, installing insulation, drywall, plywood, etc.  It's almost finished... but it's RAINY today! Ick! 

When we bought it

Here it is a week ago

So, here I dream...  

I will be building a seat and hook rack, like the above, on the wall that you can't see in the picture (well, you can see the outside of it). But I  think I'll do a mirror on the top!

And I just love these shelves

And of course Home and Harmony's Laundry, so country. Love it!

My local salvage yard, Second Use, had a washboard just like the one below for $20 and stupid me, didn't snag it.  Gosh... I've been having a lot of UNbuyers remorse... ERG

Loving the wood counter tops and vintage sign

And I just have to have that rooster, vintage from a weather vain