Worthing Court: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tour of My Daughter's New House - Part II

Hey! Hey! Hey! I sure do hope all of you are having a fantabulous week! I can't believe it's Thursday already!

On Tuesday, I showed you the living areas of Ms. JB's new house.

You can see that post here if you missed it.

We'll tour the rest of the house and a little bit of the outside today.

As a refresher, here's the basic, very roughly drawn floorplan.

Miss M's room is the most "done" of the three bedrooms.

All of the furniture from Miss M's room in their previous house has been passed down to her little sister, Miss K. The furniture that is in Miss M's room now used to be mine when I was a teen. Let me tell how much that just blows my mind! Miss M is the second granddaughter to use it. My sweet Miss N, whom you haven't met yet, used it for a number of years. It's very well made French Provencal style furniture and was originally a soft green color.

All you have to do is take a look at what's standing in the corner to know that this room belongs to a pre-preteen young lady! Aaah, Justin - you heartthrob you. ;)

There is a headboard, but it's hidden behind the pillows. Ms. JB is thinking about doing a large stick-on monogram above the bed.

The chandelier is one of those very basic brass chandeliers that was purchased at a thrift store and then painted to go with everything else in the room.

Mr. J, who is Ms. JB's beau, did an awesome job of painting all of the furniture. It turned out great! The desk was originally the changing table that I used for Ms. JB. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was a wee little thing???

Ms. JB and Miss M are still trying to decide how to paint the room. They're considering a light shade of blue or all white with a few damask'ish stencils scattered around or all white walls with a blue and white striped ceiling. Any of you have any suggestions?

The pinboard is made from a mirror that I picked up at Goodwill a couple of years ago. It was one of those things that you run across and buy without really knowing where you'll use it. It was originally white. Ms. JB simply removed the mirror, painted the frame a glossy black, purchased an inexpensive cork pinboard, cut it to fit in the frame and covered it with a cute fabric.

You can tell that Miss K's room was a nursery once upon a time. She is only 3 years old, so she's quite enthralled with the Winnie the Pooh mural. It's actually quite good so it will be a shame to paint over it one day.

It worked out well that the colors in all of the hand-me-downs from her sister's previous room work well with all of the colors in the mural.

The mural completely surrounds the entire room. My pictures just don't do it justice.

Ms. JB's room is the least "done" of the bedrooms, but has actually seen the most work.

Remember the post that I dedicated to her on "How to Make the Most Out of Your Small Closet"? Well, the master bedroom only had one, tiny closet that couldn't begin to hold all of the clothes, shoes and everything else that needs to go in a closet. I was a bad blogger and forgot to take a picture of it, but it is located directly to the left of where I was standing when I took the above picture.

Now there's a new closet with mirrored doors and new built in cabinetry. Mr. J built it and did a superb job of making it look like it's always been there. It won't get painted until the paint color for the entire room is decided upon. The room isn't large at all, but giving up the few feet of floor space was so worth the added closet space. And of course the mirrored doors give the illusion of more space.

The dresser was a part of Ms. JB's teenage bedroom furniture and will be replaced one day. Are any of you old enough to remember pickled pine? Oh, how I loved that stuff once upon at time! The only piece of furniture that will remain in here is the upholstered headboard that was purchased at Tuesday Morning. It is still available and can be purchased here. It's very affordable and appears to be of very good quality.

She'll be tweaking it, but I really love the way Ms. JB has accessorized the top of the new cabinetry. It's filled with new items, vintage, heirloom treasures and thrifted finds.

I forgot to take my wide angle lens with me the day that I took these pictures, so I wasn't able to get any pics of the master bathroom.

But I did get some pics of the cute hall bath.

The vanity and mirror will eventually be replaced or painted.

A friend of Ms. JB's made these cute printouts which were placed in painted frames. I think they are just adorable and I love the gray and yellow mixed together.

Well, that pretty much completes the tour of the inside of the house.

Before you go though, I want to give you a peek of the spacious backyard. There are lots of plans for this space!

Mr. J was thrilled with this garage!

It may look like just a normal two car garage, but there is a large workshop in the back with steps leading up to a storage area on the upper level.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my sweet Ms. JB's house. It pleases this mama's heart no end that she is seeking my help pulling everything together. I'm having more fun with her than I can say and look forward to sharing things with you as time goes by!

I'll be linking up here:

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Meet Me Monday at You Are Talking Too Much

Your Cozy Home Party on Monday at Cozy Home Scenes

Motivated Monday at Be Colorful

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Tip Me Tuesday at Tip Junkie

Tutorials and Tips Tuesday at Home Stories A to Z

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

DIY by Design on Wednesday

Uncommonly Yours on Wednesday at Uncommon Designs

Show and Share on Wednesday at Southern Lovely

Show Me Extroidinary on Thursday at The 36th Avenue

Grace at Home on Thursday at Imparting Grace

It's A Party on Thursday at A Creative Princess

Open House Party Thursday at No Minimalist Here

Share Your Creations on Thursday at Kristen's Creations

Tickled Pink Fridays at 504 Main

Flaunt it Friday at Chic on a Shoestring Decorating

Feature Friday Free for All at Five Days...5 Ways

Feature Friday at Blissful and Domestic

DIY Link Party at AKADesign

Addicts (not so) Anonymous on Friday at Addicted 2 Decorating

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Weekly Top Shot on Saturday at The View From Right Here

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Overflowing with Creativity on Sunday at It's Overflowing

Sew Darn Crafty Sunday at Sew Many Ways

Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming

Simply Klassic Sunday at A Simply Klassic Home

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Tour of My Daughter's New House - Part I

I've had several of you ask to see pictures of Ms. JB's new (to her) house ever since I dedicated my post, How to Make the Most Out of Your Small Closet, to her back in March.

Ms. JB sweetly agreed to let me give you a tour now, even though not quite all of the unpacking has been completed and there are still scores of projects on her to-do list.

Ms. JB knew from the beginning that she wanted a 1960's - 1970's, brick ranch. That's what she set her sights on and that's what she got! I'm so proud of her for sticking to her guns until she found just the right one.

Let me show you the floor plan before we start on the tour. This is a very rough rendition and is not to scale.

I guess we'll start the tour in the most logical place, which is the entry. This picture was taken from the living room looking back toward the entry. The little table on the left is actually meant to house a sewing machine. It was a Craigslist score that Ms. JB plans to paint.

The entry is a small space so there isn't room for any furniture. Ms. JB added a painting that is one of many that our family has that was painted by my Auntie Syl. You can see where she's started testing different paint samples.

Did you see the foo dog? Ms. JB scored it on Craigslist. He's a large fella and was an ugly, blotchy red color to start with.

The living room is a bright space thanks to all of the windows in the room. Ms. JB plans to replace the blinds with bamboo shades and add drapery panels. Eventually, she wants to add built-in's around the window on the wall at the far end of the room.

The 8x10 chevron rug was purchased for an awesome price on Overstock.com. My girl loves color, so she has no problem working with the red couch from her prior home. It will be replaced one day, but for now it's just fine. There are other small pops of red around the house that help to tie it in. That little elephant lamp will be adorable once he's painted and given an updated shade. She still needs art for above the couch and you can see more test paint swatches. By the way, none of these made the cut.

Ms. JB had me busy making a few pillows for her. We found the blue pillow for a song at Christmas Tree Shops, of all places. The two chartreuse ones are made from napkins found at World Market and the one on the chaise is made from a drop cloth. Ms. JB is going to use her Silhouette (that she won!) to create an image to transfer onto the pillow.

Looking toward the other end of the room. The tv console will either get a coat of paint (maybe charcoal gray) or will be replaced one day.

The wicker chair was a fabulous score from a local thrift shop and the bamboo design lamp was a Goodwill score that she painted a chartreusey yellow. The green chest is vintage 60's and will eventually be painted. That's another one of my aunt's paintings hanging above the chair. I tried my best to talk her out of that basket, but she wouldn't budge!

From the front door, you can see straight into the dining area and into the sunroom beyond. The lighter blotches on the wall are more test paint swatches.

The table is a score from our recent shopping excursion to High Point Liquidators. {If you missed the trip, I sure do hope you can make it the next time!} For now, Ms. JB is using the chairs that went with her previous table. She's still not sure about whether to keep them, replace them or paint them. There's another one of my aunt's paintings above the fireplace. Eventually, there will be a rug under the table.

The former owner of this house was a contractor who made some major renovations to the house. We think there used to be a den where the fireplace is. Ms. JB will be adding a fireplace screen and wants to add a mantle too. She's still undecided about exactly how to treat the little shelf nook, but I think she's done a great job of styling it for now. The door on the right is the hallway that leads to the bedrooms.

The enlarged and totally remodeled kitchen was a major reason that Ms. JB chose this house. Kitchens really do sell houses!

The bar (she's on the hunt for new stools!), new cabinetry, marble backsplash, Silestone counters and cool features like the pot filler all combined together to make it pretty irresistible!

Lots of great counter space. Interesting tidbit - the Kitchen Aide mixer that you see to the left of the stove was purchased by my mother (who was a wonderful baker) back in the 80's. These vintage babies are well made and worth quite a few $$$ today. I had someone from a local gourmet grocery store offer me $600 for it, sight unseen!

I love this rug that does a great job of pulling all of the colors in her house together. It came from Urban Outfitters and is still available here.

A greenhouse window was added above the kitchen sink during the remodel.

The refrigerator is located adjacent to the stove and was included in the sell of the house. Here's a peek into the laundry room too.

There is a sunroom that opens right off of the kitchen/dining area.

Right now it's a mish-mash of hodpodge stuff, but Ms. JB has plans to turn it into an office space with built-ins on one end and probably a sitting area on the other end. The desk and chair are more scores from High Point Liquidators, though not on our recent shopping excursion. The bookcases were found for a song on Craigslist and are like brand new.