Good morning!
My weekend was a complete blur…I ended up baking and packaging 400 Glo bars on Saturday and Sunday. Ummm…hell to the yea!!!
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It was a craaaazy weekend, for both Eric and I.
I almost passed out in a ball on the floor when I attempted to do Whittle My Middle Sunday night. The ab challenge is still going well. I actually can’t believe it has been 19 days. You can check out my workouts this weekend on my Run page and my Abs page, as always.
This morning it was quite cold in the house so I decided to try out a hot (as in temperature, not spice) green monster. This was my second time having a hot Green Monster. I made one back in September, trying to recreate the hot juice I had at Fresh.
Hot Chocolate Banana Green Monster
Ingredients:
- 3 cups cooked spinach
- 1/2 banana
- 1 scoop Amazing Grass Chocolate Amazing meal powder
- 1 T chia seeds
- 1 T almond butter
- 1 cup hemp milk
After blending, I heated it in the microwave for 30 seconds and then stirred it well.
The result was pretty blah. I much prefer my green monsters cold!!!! This just didn’t taste refreshing to me at all. I will stick to my Green tea to warm me up and keep the GM’s cold. ;)
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Now onto the renos of the weekend!
In case you don’t remember…this is what our entry way looked like back in January 2009 when we first started working on it. We stripped the wall paper on the wainscoting and the border (not shown below) to start with.
Here I am in January 2009 scraping it off.
It was not fun and took us hours and hours and hours!
We sort of abandoned the front entry way for a few months because we started working on other renos, like the family room and living room.
Last week, we finally picked out the paint colours for the entry way. It took us about a week to decide. We knew we wanted the colour light and neutral.
Eric’s job this weekend was priming! My job was baking up my orders. We both put in long 14 hour days both Saturday and Sunday. What a team.
I was so happy because I convinced Eric to buy the Non-VOC paint!!!!!!
Wow, what a world of difference. It was just wonderful not breathing in the nasty fumes. It is worth it for our health and the environment.
Our friend Steve came over to help, and it went by so much quicker. Plus, Eric had someone to chat with. I had the music blasting in the kitchen and it was a very high energy day. That is until I hit my ‘I can’t bake another batch’ wall around 7pm.
Don’t worry, this 70’s style crystal chandelier is on its’ way out. Do you think we can sell it on Ebay??? ;) I picked out a new chandelier for my birthday back in May and it has been sitting in the box ever since! Eric and the boys will be putting the new one up next week.
Until then, we rock it 70’s vibes in our house…a disco ball perhaps?
They didn’t have time to prime the Cotton Candy Hallway. It looks even more pink next to the stark white! Eric will start this pink hallway tonight. We also forgot about the front closet (shown right). Agh! So that needs to be done too…and empty out all the stuff and donate it to good will.
It looks so much better even with just the primer on! The boys did great work.
Before and mid-way: (don’t mind the reno mess!)
Cute story about Sketchie: Every time we walk up or down the stairs, he runs under the plastic and runs along the side of the stairs to scare us, lol. So cute.
Next up after priming the pink hallway is painting the colour on the walls. We chose Biscuit by Sherwin Williams and Pure White by SW (for wainscoting). I think it will be really nice and bright.
Long term goals for the front entry way:
- New flooring (we are thinking slate)
- Paint the front door to make it ‘pop’ (any colour ideas?)
- Furniture (I’d love a nice cabinet- will probably thrift one off Craigslist)
- Art for walls
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Do you have any walls in your current place that you are desperate to change the colour? Have you ever lived somewhere where you hated the colours on the walls? Did you change them?
Back in university, I rented a house with some other girls. Eric and I removed all of the glued-on (and smoke stained) yellow wallpaper. It took forever because of the glue. Then we painted my bedroom a beautiful forest green (accent wall) and pale lavender. It looked so much better. I also had a bathroom that was the nastiest shade of green that you can imagine. I was too lazy to do anything about it though and just lived with it.
Fresh paint can do wonders- just like a new haircut!
I hope you enjoyed your (holiday) weekend! :) Let the Christmas season officially BEGIN!!
Your entry way is gorgeous! Will you decorate that staircase for Christmas? I do it and I love it!! :)
I am sooooo fussy about paint colors it takes me forever to pick one out! Right now I have 3 samples painted on our hallway, I can’t decide which one and will probably try out 3 more samples.
I love the staircase in your house…so dramatic!
Courtney
Adventures in Tri-ing
It looks so much better without the pink! I am very picky about paint colors, when I moved into the husbands house he didn’t have a single wall with color on it. It was all white! We now have a red bathroom, and a yellow dining room/kitchen. Finally color!
Beautiful!
Enjoy!
You are quite the baker!! Man oh man :)
Can’t wait to see the new chandelier!!
Looks great Angela!!!
I asked PB to have his place painted before I moved in. Not only were the walls semi-gross, but the colors kind of, well, sucked. HA! So I picked out pretty neutral yellows and blues and whites and the place looks GREAT now! I especially love our kitchen which is this warm cafe latter color!
The entryway looks great with just the primer! Can’t wait to see the end result! Also, love the glass that your GM is in! So pretty!
OH my goodness, I think I am in LOVE with your gorgeous staircase! I wasn’t a blog follower back in January, so missed the first pictures you posted and had never seen these beautiful stairs before. :)
My husband and I are still in an apartment until I finish my master’s program, and because most of my classes are online I’m home working all day. In our first apartment, we didn’t paint and I almost went crazy looking at the jail-cell dingy, off white walls all day, every day. When we moved, we painted our bedroom a great light blue and our family/dining/kitchen a butterscotch color. SO much better!
Your entryway is gorgeous!
both houses we’ve lived in, we’ve completely renovated, like tore down walls and everything. but sometimes just a fresh coat of paint can brighten up a room and make it look like new! and its so much easier than building a wall….
The dance floor… errr…. entryway looks amazing! I can’t wait to see the final product- the yellow tones will warm it up so well with the wood staircase!
I think that you could totally ebay or craigslist the light fixture. Maybe CL is easier though, because you don’t have to worry about shipping it?
Your entryway looks awesome already! I can’t wait to see it with the new paint. I am currently in the process of painting almost every room in my house. It is hard to find time, so everything is a work in progress right now, as I’m sure you can understand. I just painted my dining room area a soft pear green and I love it! Painting really makes a huge difference for a pretty low cost. :)
wow your house is gorgeous..i cannot wait to start to have my own place like that! good luck on the renovations!
I love renovations! Please keep us updated!
Paint color can do WONDERS to a room! I love all the Restoration Hardware Colors! You can’t go wrong!
oh boy, we just renovated our entire house a year ago. LOTS of work! And I adore my colors now…before, not so much!
and I agree, a fresh coat of paint can do wonders!
Thanks for sharing…I love the detailing of your home!
so beautiful.
HA HA ! Biscuit… I read that title and was excited to see an Angela redo, a healthy maybe GF biscuit or something… then got caught up reading about your exciting renos, forgetting about biscuits until I saw the paint color.
:)
Maybe I’ll have to work on a biscuit recipe today…
Sadly this island is a mold heaven and we need to repaint soon. Here they just repaint and repaint and well repaint some more to cover over the darn mold.
my second house that i bought, here’s the story, the house had A LOT of wood paneling.. ew! the master bedroom had it too, yuck. the bathroom off the master had the nastiest dizziest wallpaper. The first spare room was bright pink, wasn’t too bad i guess. But the other room was “themed” the previous owners painted it really bad.. tan walls with cactus’. they made it a desert theme. it was terrible! haha
I’m doing renos to my house,too.I believe there is a special place in Hell for whoever created wall paper.Most of my time is spent removing it.Blah!!It will all be worth it once it’s over and done with.I still need a color for my bathroom, but the kitchen is Lemon Chiffon from Sherwin Williams.cc
I love your front entryway! It looks so nice and I can’t wait to see the final product :)