Baby "Pistachio" Blog: Making our house feel like home

Alright, so I'm back on the blogging thing...hopefully this time I'll actually be more regular on this thing (I'm sure I'll be saying that a lot over these next few months, year,s, etc.... :) ). We moved into our new home in December (actually closed on our dating anniversary December 19th). Once we got settled and got over taking care of a sick little Bree, we moved into making the house feel like home. Decorating! I will take credit for most of the interior ideas, but Jason did a lot of work implementing my ideas. Here's the rooms we have finished so far: Bree's nursery, Bree's playroom, Guest bathroom, Guest bedroom, and the Master bathroom. On top of decorating these rooms, Jason realized that many of our interior doors didn't shut or latch. Apparently our interior doors are the cheapest of the bunch and didn't even have working hardware. I originally thought we were going to just replace the hardware, but Jason had other ideas and decided to upgrade most of the interior doors on the 2nd floor. Of course this required him to paint, sand, frame, and rehang multiple doors. And this equaled a ton of time spent working on doors. In addition to the changes inside the home, we also replaced the roof and the windows on the front side of the home. We knew we were going to have to replace the roof after the inspection prior to closing. We decided to not wait in case we get a nasty winter next year. The windows were Jason's project. In March we hit an unseasonably warm period at the same time Bree was sick (again....a blog on that to follow). Unfortunately since the former owners painted almost all of the windows shut and because the windows don't have screens, Jason wasn't able to open the windows when it was 80 degrees outside. And this led to a very grumpy daddy. It took a lot of convincing for me to swallow this project as we had just finished the roof. And after price checking, we realized that replacing windows is not a cheap project. Hence the compromise......we'd replace the windows on the front side of the home and then later the back side. I will say that the new windows are very nice and make it easier for me to water the flowers in my window boxes. Let us know what you think of the rooms!