One Month Anniversary and a Sun Room Facelift

This weekend was our one month anniversary in the house. We celebrated by giving the sun room off of the kitchen a much needed facelift. We have been using the space as a dumping ground for empty boxes and anything else we don’t know where to put and as my niece Leah was so kind to point out, it was a big mess. I mentioned that we took out the carpeting when we moved in and the hardwood underneath is in rough shape, which we plan on refinishing at some point but not right now, otherwise the room just needed a cleaning out and a throw rug to make it a livable space.

The biggest motivation to get this space more functional was the need to have an additional place to hang out downstairs. I have been complaining (a lot) that on Monday nights when Mark races I am banished to the cold upstairs and how we needed another space for me when the living room was in use. Thus Jen’s sunroom was born.

Photo from listing

All in this room facelift only cost $100, which was the purchase of the throw rug from Marshall’s. Everything else we already had expect for the super cute Moroccan end table that Mark’s parents gave us yesterday (honestly we went over hoping to find something in their stash and they didn’t disappoint).  I am pretty impressed that we had enough stuff to basically fill up the house.

Paint didn’t cost anything because we used the leftovers from the living room. I literally used every last drop but I was able to finish. Thanks to a snow day I had the day to paint. Lolita was a royal menace most of the process and I listened to some records. Today’s playlist included; Marvin Gay, Rob Stewart, Simon & Garfunkel, BIlly Joel and Jack Johnson.

Now I have a place to hang out, do some art and write blog posts. Mark likes the room so much he said he is going to start reading the paper in here. Having the extra living space downstairs makes a big difference to the overall feeling of the house. Not bad for $100 and a few hours of painting (okay 7hrs).

Other things around the house: The washer in finally fixed so no more Big Daddy’s Laundromat for me, but something is leaking now and a fuse blew in the kitchen and bathroom today and it scared Lolita and me. It was ticking for a long time and was really smelly afterwards.