Pre-Jax Project #2: Master Bedroom

 Jax is coming at the end of March and we have a laundry list of projects we want to get done. Most, if not all, are home improvement projects.  We are coming up on 3 years in our home, and while it has flown by and I still think of our house as brand new, it definitely has some normal wear 'n' tear that needs to be spiffed up.

Some of these projects include:

• Jax's nursery
• the boy's playroom
• repaint all the walls in the house
• replace all the base boards
• fix the walls- we have rounded corners, and unfortunately, those and a 115 pound pit bull puppy don't mix well together.  every time him and the kraken fight and he slams his huge blocky head into one of those corners, they dent and then eventually the metal piece that rounds it 'pops off, leaving dry wall and even the metal piece itself exposed

We have already completed, within 99% at least, the makeover of the boy's bathroom.  Which, as you may have guessed from the title of this post was Pre-Jax Project #1.  I will get some photos and such up here soon.  I still want to get a little shelf for in there and a few other little trinket type things, but it's close enough to share I think.

We have now moved on to Project 2- our bedroom.

We started with the biggest and most obvious piece- the furniture.  We decided it was time we might as well go ahead and purchase a new bedroom set.  We've been talking about it for a bit, and decided now was the perfect time to do it.  

We went with this set which included the bed, dresser and mirror.

We also added 2 of these night stands.

We ordered them the Sunday after Thanksgiving and they wont be here for about 10 weeks. So, the goal in that 10 weeks is to figure out a new accent wall color, and then from there bedding, a rug, a few wall hangings, accents and decorations and we will be good.  

As I mentioned above, we are also replacing the base boards. Our current ones are a 4 in press board.  Cheap and not nearly durable enough for a house with 3 dogs and soon to be 2 boys smashing cars and things into them.  We are replacing them with a 6 inch solid wood base board.  I didn't really care much about the size, but Louis suggested we go the larger ones and I'm really happy we did.  Two inches makes a huge difference and the solid wood is really just a necessity that I'm sure we will be happy we did in a few years. So, we will do them in our room when they take our old furniture out.

We've been busy with Louis' birthday and Christmas and all that fun stuff, so shy of buying the furniture we haven't done much of anything else, but as soon as I start to focus some time and energy (what little I have!) on it, I'll post some pictures and such!