Poppies at Play: Parade of Homes

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Parade of Homes Linky Party!!!

***Welcome Welcome Welcome***

To the 2nd annual Parade of Homes

LINKY PARTY!

Where YOU are the star of the show!!

If you've somehow missed the parade, get caught up for goodness sake! Start at #1

I'll be giving you a tour of my home to get the ball rolling!

Hello! I'm Andy...the girl variety. Short for Andrea

This is my lovely family, and home is wherever they are!

{I love the look on The Joe's face in this picture}

(Picture by Val)

Welcome to our home!!

In the summertime this door is never shut.

We obviously wouldn't want any homeless flies in Eagle Mountain, we're pretty gracious like that.

Our homemade shelves hold family pictures.

I love to look at my peeps when I'm coming and going!

The blue bench is made from a queen sized headboard.

Here is what I call the yellow room, but none of my kids catch on to which room I'm talking about.

You know....the one that's yellow?? ((Huh, Mom?))

I picked up some $4.99 cabinet doors at IKEA in the "as-is" department and tacked them to the wall.

I love the yellow, but it does need white to tone it down!

I really love to sit in this room and read.

Another homemade shelf with some of my vinyl designs.

Also a place to hold your jackets when you come for a visit{{hint, hint}}

This is the room where we do most of our hanging out.
We decided to buy two couches instead of a loveseat. We have a lot of bums that need a place to sit!

Fake plants that I can't kill on top of another IKEA "as-is" treasure.

I cut a cabinet door down to use as a table top.

I picked up a couple of inexpensive lampshades at Ross and dressed them up with white vinyl.
I'm loving them! It's an easy way to add a little pizzaz to your shades, and it's so easy to change the look!

The traditional "lots of white things in one place" picture. Gotta have it!

Our family room bumps right into our kitchen/dining area.

We have a freakishly high bar, so we had enough room to make a shelf underneath.
Not at all functional, but it looks cute.

I found the barstools at a garage sale for $5 each. I know...insane in the membrane.
I spray painted them, reupholstered with easy wash fabric and put knobs on the back.

My kids favorite part of the house:
The candy machine!!

I found it at at thrift store and gave it a facelift. If the kids finish all of their jobs in the morning, they get a quarter. They work pretty dang hard for it too! It's GREAT! Then we take out the quarters and use the money to buy more candy for the machines. Full circle baby.

Here's a shot of a door turned into a pegboard for my aprons
and my favorite painting in the whole world, painted and given to me by my talented cousin Rebecca.

The Joe makes pizza every Friday night for our family and friends. I had to make a sign for him!

We have our Farmhouse curtain rod shelves over almost all of our windows. They can hold their own when 10 little hands are yanking at the curtains and they give me a place to put knickity knacks.

My sanity whiteboard.
This is where I write the menu for the week, my shopping list, extra activities and the kids jobs.

Here is our mudroom-ish area.
It never ever EVER looks like this. The children's coats and shoes spontaneously multiply and completely take over. I don't know why I even bothered painting it..Lol.

My daughter's room. Can you tell I have a color crush on blue and green?

Snippet of another girl's room

Laundry room with our homemade shelf and beadboard trim

Here's our bedroom..Ooh la la..
I made a faux headboard by tacking trim to the wall and painting the center.
The ladder shelves are also homemade.
I definitely had to get strategic to give you a shot of our bedroom. The other half is utter chaos, especially after this crazy week! Luckily it's SPRING BREAK next week and I'll have time to CLEAN!