Wanna Be Mama MD: Redecorating

Progress on our new house has been pretty slow but we are making headway. We now have what we're affectionately calling swiss cheese with doors. All the rooms have been washed and primed and our new electrical has almost been roughed in completely. I think we only need new wiring in the guest room and nursery and after I took these shots, little plastic boxes were added to each new outlet and switch.

Dining Room

Living Room

Once the electrical is fully roughed in and we have actual outlets and switches, we're going to use the same holes in the walls to run interconnected smoke detectors, ethernet cable for the internet and cable TV. That should conclude all the behind the walls work so we'll be able to patch the holes and prime over the new patches. I think we'll also replace the recessed cans with LED lights because the cans are pretty old.

Guest Room

Guest Bathroom and Entry Way

That scary hole in our entry way where you can see right outside was where the electrical was replaced for the outdoor porch lights. It was actually closed up pretty quickly but it was freaky to look out through what should be a solid wall. We also picked some really cool vintage/industrial style light fixtures for the entry way and entry hallway that I'm excited to see up there once everything is painted.

Master Bedroom

The master closet looks about a million times better primed white. We went back and forth on leaving it stained cherry red or painting it a neutral color and I'm now 100% sure we made the right choice. The room is so much lighter and brighter, so much so that I think we might leave it white instead of painting it grey.

Upstairs Hallway and Stairs

E and I have been toying with the idea of eventually adding a skylight to the stairway. It has a good spot for art with a little ledge but then there's all this ceiling space where a skylight would really lighten things. It's not high on the priority list so maybe we get to it sometime next year but I think a Solatube would look pretty awesome there.

Nursery

The nursery is probably the room I'm most excited about. Planning it out is fulfilling all the nesting instincts I can't indulge because we can't move in yet. Since the shape of our room is so different from the mock up we originally came up with, I've redesigned it to fit our actual space with all it's character filled nooks and slopes.