Goodbye, Art City

We sold our house in Springville in November of 2012. It was good, but kinda sad. We made a lot of great memories in that house, in that neighborhood, in that city, an that ward. Awwwww, I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. It was a very bright and happy place. Very humble, but the people were friendly, and kind. I miss the Springville library. I miss the SMofA. I miss the friendly first ward, I miss Reams. I miss my loverly friends. I miss our trees and garden and yellow walls. I miss my kids having close friends. I miss catching butterflies on warm summer days. I miss taking walks.
Things are different here. Not neccesarily worse, but different. Things are getting better.

Kitchen Makeover- After/Part 5

So there it is. Magenta Jewel and Paris Mint were the winners. I kept telling myself white cabinets were a cop-out but after painting them off-white I am really happy with how they turned out. The whole house feels much more open and clean and bright. Thank you Mark & Holly for helping paint the cabinets and thank you Justin for taking care of the kids while I was painting away.

Have I showed you our retro stove and double oven yet? It's at least 50 years old but works like a charm.  ;)

 I still want to tear out the carpet in the kitchen and put tile in or something. The projects are never ending. Any ideas for the kitchen floor?

Kitchen Makeover- Part 4

I didn't want it to be a boring kitchen so I experimented with some color.... Lots of color... You probably wish I this was the way we kept it. But it's not. Me and Justin agreed it looked like PeeWee's playhouse.

Kitchen Makeover- Part 3

Bye bye wallpaper! Thanks for your help, Lisa & Vanna! Interesting peach colour we found. I was actually tempted to try and re-create the old kitchen but decided against it. P.S. I am well aware it looks like I am high on marijuana in these pics. I think the wallpaper stripper was gettin to me.

Kitchen Makeover- Part 2

Bye Bye cabinets!

Kitchen Makeover- Before

Not even Francesca liked that wallpaper.

Bathroom After Pictures

The entire bathroom remodel only cost about $75 total. It was fun, and good experience for my first room. I look forward to tackling many other house projects in the near future. Stay posted.  :)

Bathroom During Pics

Removing wallpaper is hard work. The paper tiger is now my friend. I actually liked the vintage aquamarine color I found behind the wallpaper. I wonder what year it was painted. Thank you Mark for helping install the laminate flooring.

Bathroom Before Pics

I don't think I'll ever understand the whole "carpet-in-the-bathroom" thing.

Cypress Casa

Here is the house before:Here is the house with the primer:And here is the house after: TaDaThis is in the sunlight:!And here is Justin putting up new house numbers:  

Late afternoon shot:

The fam. Cypress is a wonderfuly fun color. It was a fun process seeing the change. One neighbor who is probably in her eighties came over and thanked me for brightening up the street. And my nice young neighber friend asked me for the painting companies number so she could get a quote to paint her house. I'm hoping my whole street will all paint their houses in brave bold colors. I am excited to be known from now on a the girl with the yellow house.

Some Pics of the Move

We were famous for the day at the Title Company.

This is us right after signing the papers at closing with our realtor (Justin's Stepdad) and our Loan Officer(Jackson Ogden).

And here is Justin and Francy in front of our huge pile of boxes a few days before the move. Yay!