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@Mrs D: Your DD's big girl room sounds awesome. You'll have to share pics!

I'm gearing up to paint/stain my kitchen cabinets. I'm painting the uppers a creamy white, and I'm not sure if I will stain my lowers darker or also paint them white. Kind of like this inspiration picture. We have a similar countertop and oak floors, and our current cabinets are oak stock cabinets. I am thinking about using chrome hardware though.

@Mrs D: There is so much blue in our house and I'm not fond of grey. Our kitchen is already blue, the living room, hallway, bathroom, H's room, and the master bedroom are already shades of blue (in case you couldn't tell, we like blue).

ETA: I'm going to repaint the kitchen at some point too, probably to a lighter blue. My living room is Palladian Blue by BM, so I may do that or a lighter blue since the room is dark.

@avivoca: I had the same thought as @Mrs.D: lol. I love the kitchen Tuxedo look. We have palladium blue in our master- gorgeous!

@Smurfette: where are you going for frames? I lucked up at Joanns the other day during a frame Sale plus additional coupon, but still so expensive.

My projects are pretty small: hang a pair of Anthropology towel hooks in the guest bath and hang the shower curtain from a higher point in the room. I'll need a new curtain too. Put artwork up that's been leaning on the floor and tabletops too long.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I'm loving it too! I hope it's not too progressive for my neighborhood lol, but it's got to be better than what it currently looks like (below). I also love Palladian Blue! I think it will look good in there, especially after I lighten up the uppers. Excuse the mess, I'm still cleaning them out.

@avivoca: I love those cabinets!

@avivoca: @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: my master is also Palladian Blue. It's one of my favorite paint colors!

@Mrs. Pickle: I did a similar growth chart, but just black tick marks and numbers. It's hung, but not quite finished. I need to finish it up before another birthday comes around.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I'm thinking about it. I am definitely going to paint the soffit the same color as the cabinets to fool the eye into thinking they go to the ceiling, and I may remove the header piece from over the sink because I feel like it blocks so much light. There is a horrible florescent light hiding up there, and I'd like to have it changed out for either a pendant or a can light. If I had the time/muscles, I'd unscrew all the cabinets/hood and move them forward an inch so they would line up with the edge of the soffit.

@Smurfette: Love this!!! Have you seen our portrait hall I posted on IG. It's seriously my favorite place in our house.

We bought a house this spring, so we've got lots of projects this summer!

Refinish church pew - DH bought a pew from the church we were married as a wedding gift for me. Now that we finally have room for it, he stripped and stained it to go in our entry hall.

Hang curtains - We bought curtains from Anthro for the family room but hadn't gotten around to hanging them until last weekend.

Sand/paint end tables - We inherited a pair of end tables from my grandmother. They're in desperate need of TLC. I need to see if the current, chippy, 50 year old paint has lead before we get started, but then we're painting them. Maybe navy?

Make a growth chart for DD1's room

Make curtains/crib skirt for DD2's room

Finish making DD2's Christmas stocking - this is my road trip activity for the summer!

@BandDmommy: Before this most recent move, my husband's hours were terrible too. It's nice to finally be able to do some of these projects as labors of love now, but before, he used to joke that "I'm really handy...handy with a checkbook"

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: @Mrs. Pickle: @Mrs D:

Here's the cabinets after a coat of primer and one coat of paint. It's already so much brighter in there now that the top is lightened up and I can't believe how much taller the ceilings feel.

@avivoca: I'm obsessed with how this turned out, we have close to the same color cabinets and I want so badly to redo them. What color is your trim in yore house? we have this same color trim and I've been scared to stain/paint the cupboards and make it seem "off"

@rattles: I love that pew!

@avivoca: it looks great!

@Smurfette: I love your frames. Where did you get them?

@rattles: I love the curtain fabric!

We finished the crib and put it in the nursery. I found some places I need to touch up before we get the mattress. I'm going to pick up a piece of wood for the growth chart this week. I'm ready to be done working in my garage. It's too hot! I decided that the size of the IKEA shelves will work just fine so I'm buying those instead of making them.

I just painted our entire new house. Every single wall, and closet, was pink. Shades of rosy pink. Dark pink. Light pink. You name it, we had it. I painted it all the same colour a really light (almost too light, but I honestly can't complain because it is so much better) greige. We replaced a couple light fixtures and replaced almost all of the light switches and plugs to white, from beige switches/plugs and chrome plates.

I need to:

- replace bathroom sinks with arborite and a new sink/faucets.
- finish a few closets from pink to "other".
- replace kitchen sink faucet.
- paint kitchen cabinets! @avivoca: I reeeeeally love your inspiration pic! I just pinned it!
- put up a couple gallery walls and spray paint all my collected frames black.

I have a LOT to do in this house. Which will all happen eventually since I can't afford to do it all at once. My mom and I will do the bathroom counters/sinks. This house is almost overwhelming with DIY updates, but I'm looking forward to the challenge!

I have pics but they aren't on this computer. I'll see if I can get some in here!