New Additions

A lot has been going on at Ardsley- so, I wanted to take the time to show you some of the new additions to the bedroom, living room, and office.

 First up is the deer head in the living room. I took some pictures of the process because- it was a process. I love this laser level that we purchased from Lowe's. It suctions to the wall. It has been pretty handy so far. When it suctions to the wall it is kind of noisy but it was super helpful. The picture hanging hook- well I am just amazed it holds that deer head. But it has been at least a week since we put the deer head up and it is still there.

My boyfriend has allowed me a lot of input into the house- but sometimes I come over to the house and he has just decided to do something that I had no idea about. So far it has been all good stuff- but my favorite thing he has done so far is add baseboards in the office.  In this picture you can see the office with no baseboards. It looks pretty unfinished. 

After: Office with baseboards

The office also got a new door. Three doors needed to be replaced in the house- the office door included.  I really liked how the old door looked- it had a bunch of glass panes, but it was not in great shape and it only had a screen door to prevent someone from busting all those pretty panes of glass in and being inside. The new door still has glass but there is a security door that adds more security. 

Another room that got some additions is the master bedroom. The additions was bedding. My boyfriend had college bedding that was ok- but he didn't have a dust ruffle or a sham that matched. I spent weeks online looking at every website I could think of looking for "manly" bedding. Now, could I find gender neutral bedding- yes. However, I found it impossible to find bedding that looked like a man lived there.

We ended up creating our own between a couple of stores, Bed Bath and Beyond and Target, and I like the finished product. Please ignore the fact that the shams do not have pillows inside them.

Master Bedroom!

One of the first rooms that was painted was the master bedroom. My boyfriend wanted to paint it a blue color. We settled on this color- which I think turned out pretty well. Before the room was white and now it is this fresh blue color that looks great with the floors now that they have been refinished.

Here is what the bedroom looked like before:

 I love the doors in older houses. Another feature I randomly noticed is how the doors lock. There is a tiny peg next to the handle that you press in to lock the door- I think that is pretty cool too. Something else that was done is this room is that the closets got lights put in them and a ceiling fan was installed. 

Here is the room during the prep work and as you can see I took a break from taping to take this picture. Taping trim is one of my least favorite things to do. But, it is a necessary evil. I wish I would have taken a picture of how bad the paint on the window frames was and what the condition of the old windows was before they were replaced. 

This is after the room had been painted and the windows had been replaced. I really love this blue color!

I choose this room to post about today because just this past weekend we got blinds for this room and another one of the guest bedrooms.  

The blinds are great. They are wood and beautiful. They are Levolor. We considered faux wood blinds, but the price difference wasn't that much and my boyfriend really hated how the pulls on the faux wood blinds looked. 

One great thing about the blinds was that the wood blinds didn't come in the size we needed for the windows- but the Levolor blinds can be cut down at Lowes for you. We just picked all of them up about 20 minutes later when they were done.