Vera

As you all know or most of you know we’re moving to a new home this week. We closed on the home and have been busy trying to get everything moved prior to the children starting school. School starts in early August where we are moving to which means that we won’t have much time to settle in before the hustle & bustle of school begins again. Everyone also knows that I work a full time job.

I’ve kept this blog private for a long time. You needed a password to access most of my material. I just didn’t feel that anyone would want to read my ramblings. I’m just your every day mother living a normal every day life. As normal as life can get for a wife, mother, friend, sister and employee. With moving comes a lot of standard things. You have to call and get your phone, power, gas, trash service, water, internet & cable turned on. Not necessarily in that order but you catch my drift.

I have so many things that I want to work on when it comes to the house. My house as Dan Faires refers to it is a big BLANK canvas. That scares the DICKENS out of me. I’ve learned to explain my euphemisms as not everyone understands the southern things I say. “Dickens” is a euphemism that means devil. The phrase is found in Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” for those that are interested. Contrary to public opinion the expression was very common years before Charles Dickens was born.

Dan Faires of CapsuleFurniture.com had some great ideas for my guest bathroom. That stuff on the walls is gone it was staged poorly in my opinion. He recommended enclosing the mirror with a custom frame, painting the walls and buying some nice accessories. The kicker is that my husband doesn’t really know much about fixing up a house or painting. His parents never did it and therefore he wasn’t subjected to DIY projects like me.

Now I’m going to have to tackle a lot more than the guest bathroom. My kitchen drives me crazy. I call it the white bathroom tile kitchen. Not a fan of the tile counters. I want those gone. Another DIY project that’ll be rather heavy. I want slate, granite, marble or something. Not thrilled with the tile counters at all.

However, Dan Faires and my husband agree that my yard has the most potential along with Dan Faires buddy Gary Kirby. Then again if I were Dan and I knew that if I won the fan vote I had to fix something in this house I’d choose the yard too. HAHA

I totally love my new house but there are a few things that need work. What are your opinions? What would you fix first? What DIY project would you tackle? Would you watch the DIY Network or HGTV for design inspiration. We already know that Dan Faires is the Design Star of choice that I would have fix my house with Emily Henderson running in a close second. Casey Noble is on that list too.

Tags: Casey Noble, Dan Faires, DIY Network, Emily Henderson, HGTV

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