Aurora's Room

So do you remember almost 2 years ago when we had just moved into this house, I posted some before pictures, fully intending to do some fixing up and post some after pictures too?  Well, I finally have some after pictures to post.  At least of Aurora's room, and hopefully some other rooms coming soon.  So to refresh your memory, this is what her room looked like before.

I had thought about leaving the clouds on the ceiling, and changing the color of the walls.  However, over time the yellow kind of grew on me.  But the walls definitely needed to be touched up, and so we picked a lighter yellow, that was a semi-gloss finish, instead of the egg shell finish that was on the walls before.
With the help of some of my family we painted on Labor Day.

Then I made some curtains for the room, and a quilt and some throw pillows for Aurora's bed.  Then my husband and I went to a second hand store and found a dresser for the room.  We bought a night light from Ikea when we had moved in, and it had been in Cinderella and Aurora's room before.  We used the color of the night light, and the colors in the fabrics for the quilt, curtains and pillows to select some vinyl wall decor, which Aurora got for Christmas.

Here are the end results.

Our house

OK so I know people have been asking for pictures for a while, and so now I am finally going to post them.

I had started to take this pictures on the day we moved in before we had anything in the house. My goal was to have before and after shots. Before we moved in, and after I get the rooms looking the way I want.

Unfortunately my memory card got full, and I wasn't able to get all the pictures I wanted that day. So some of these pictures I took today, after we have somethings in the rooms, but they really are still before pictures, because I haven't done any of the decorating or painting that I plan to do.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

These first pictures are the exterior of the house. I took these pictures today. They look a lot nicer than it did when we moved in, because when we moved in all the trees were still bare, and it wasn't as green. Also my husband has been doing a lot of work on the yard, while he has been home helping me, after Sleeping Beauty was born.

Front
Back

OK so when you walk in the front door you are in the living room.


Behind the living room is the kitchen and dinning area.
That is the main floor.
If you go up the stairs you find 3 bedrooms and a bathroom.
This first room is the girls room. This decision was made because it is the biggest of the bedrooms (other than the master.) It currently has white walls, and a dark blue ceiling. The ceiling and walls have glow in the dark circles painted on them in the pattern of some constellations.

This next room is Guys.
You can't see it very well in the picture, but in addition to the sunshine yellow walls the ceiling is a sky blue, with little white puffy clouds painted on it. Cinderella saw this room, and decided it had to be hers. Unfortunately, it was the smaller of the two rooms. But I think I will compromise a little bit, and when we paint the girls room, we may paint some clouds on her ceiling as well.

This is the master bedroom.

And here is the bathroom.

So if you go downstairs from the main floor, you find the family room, and office.





This floor also has a bathroom, and the laundry room on it.

Then there is what we consider the bonus. There is one more set of stairs. If you go down it, you find what we plan to make the library,

the (for now) guest bedroom,


and two storage rooms.

Quite the upgrade from a 3 bedroom apartment huh? We like it, and are enjoying our time here.