My Favorite Room: Master Bedroom/Bathroom Suite

It's Show and Tell Tuesday with Andrea at Momfessionals and today's theme is My Favorite Room. When we bought our house, it had a rainbow of colors: brown, green, orange, red (not yet blogged about) and purple. But my favorite room in our house has to be our Master bathroom, actually it's our master bedroom suite. I love going up after dinner with the kids to take baths, they have a little play area that they play in while we get the bath going, they run around like crazy people, it is just fun family time.

But before I show you the after pictures, I thought I'd show you some before. To show you how far we've come. This is what we started with...awesome right? haha, yea right!

How 70/80's is that wallpaper back there? And that tub, could barely fit me! And it was the most shallow thing you ever saw, like could you even really categorize it as a bathtub type shallow. And the carpet, carpet in the bathroom is just weird...

You can't see from the photo above, but guess what was behind the bathtub, yept...this lovely blank space.

Getting a little closer, you can see that it's just some floor board down there, didn't even have real flooring. I believe it was supposed to be a place where you can plant things...cause everyone needs real plants in their bathroom right?

We started to try and take the wallpaper off ourselves, since we were painting the rest of the house. See how much wallpaper is missing? That took us probably 10 hours of work. Then we decided to have some professionals handle it...best decision ever.

Notice that none of the paper came off in chunks, it was all these little bits, super frustrating.

When we moved to the house, Mr. wanted to get a claw foot tub. So we knew we were going to tear it out, that and the carpet...yikes that carpet was a hot mess!

It may look like Mr. did all the work, but really we had someone demolish it for us while we were at work, the guy that did it had fun.

As you can see, we had the cabinets stained. When we got our stairs redone, we had the same guys stain the back of our front door and these cabinets to get rid of that oak color... We much prefer the dark color.

So onto the fun part...

Okay maybe not fun, but at least we're seeing progress priming and paint.

Then onto flooring! That was such a happy day!

 

Then the most awesome thing in our bathroom, the clawfoot tub! I wish I could find the pictures of the guys installing the tub, it was crazy! It took three guys and 20 minutes to get up our stairs.

Now we're getting somewhere!

 Oh and I never showed you the before closet pictures. While going through the pictures I found it. It was totally not functional and really weird, with no clothes hanging space.

Mr actually redid the closet for me. I like to hang everything up, so I knew I wanted a lot of hanging space...and that is exactly what he gave me. Click here to see the after pictures of the closet.

Those pictures above were taken about 5 years ago, and this is what it looks like as of right now:

Yes the drapes are wrinkly, and no matter how hard I try they will just not come out! Super annoying, but eventually we want to get something else in there. At the time, we just wanted some privacy and went to Big Lots and found some cheap curtains, they work for now.

Our messy counters...if you notice we only hand one light in each fixture on, we found that having all 9 lights on at the same time was just too blinding and just wasting electricity. Sorry for the dark pictures...

The bathroom, we only changed the color of the room. Eventually we'd like to redo this, but for now it works.

The favorite part of the bathroom, are these pictures of Baby Fox and the bathtub

And the phone shower handle...in bronze. I just love it!

This is our bedroom taken from the bathroom. Last night the kids were playing while the bath was running and I was taking pictures.

We can't wait for the kid toys to go away, so we can really enjoy this fire place...

In these chairs with a foot stool and a table to put warm drinks!

Our bed, Baby Fox stole the other bed pillow. See those shell necklaces hanging on the bed? We got those on our honeymoon, and they've been there ever since.I really want to put something above our bed, but just haven't figure out what, just yet...it's only been 5 years, I need more time! haha.

TV area

Baby Fox is really into soccer right now, and that bag on the right is to be donated stuff.

So that's my favorite room in our house. I guess I should say favorite area...well the kitchen is pretty awesome, but that's just because I get to eat yummy food there. What your favorite room? If you've blogged about it, link it in the comments!

 Also linking up with Tuesday Talk

Low Key Weekend

This weekend was actually pretty low key. Surprising right? I had Friday off, so it started out with walking Baby Fox to school. Mr. decided to work from home, so we all walked him to school. Mini Fox was sitting in the stroller, too lazy to get her out to take a picture.

Every time we walk past this wall Baby Fox has to walk it too.

After we dropped him off Mr. stayed to work while Mini Fox and I headed out for some errands and shopping. Shopping tuckers a girl out...seriously this hardly ever happens during the day. You know cause she's been awake for a total of 2.5 hours.

We picked up Baby Fox from school, they got some naps in and then back in the car for our favorite trip. Can you guess?

Don't worry it was in the driveway when I took this

Yep Costco! Every single sample had to do with fish or being vegetarian...can we say Costco was really trying to appeal to the Catholic crowd and it being Lent and no meat Friday.

After Costco, the kids watched Brave, while I fixed dinner.

Saturday I was up really early for a sunrise hike. A few friends from the gym do this 5 mile hike every Saturday so I decided to join them this week. We're facetiming a friend that couldn't make it and was in Michigan doing a R.I.P.P.E.D training session (this is the class that I take Monday and Wednesdays).

The start of the hiking trail. Awesome photo bomb right?

It was SUPER tough, just like the said, but there is something to be said to the quiet early mornings and beautiful scenery. Up to the top of the first major hill and the prize was a beautiful view of the ocean!

They said, see that hill, that seems like that's the top, but it's not...darn!

So let's go a little then stop to "take a selfie" but in reality I'm really resting, LOL.

Top of the second hill.

And this is still at the top of the secondish hill, I've walked just a little further. I saw this and really wanted to catpure the light peaking through the clouds. I think this picture is pretty amazing, but it doesn't really do what I saw justice.

I headed home and it was only 8:15! Score, workout done, now to get ready for the baby shower I had to go to. On my way out Baby Fox got hurt (he was standing behind me and I didn't realize it and I stepped back right on his foot...with my heel...poor guy.) and Mini Fox was so concerned that he was crying that she came over to give him a hug.

It was a long drive, but so worth it to see some old friends. So you see the pregnant girl in the middle? Yea she's due in 3 weeks, don't ya just hate her? She's wearing heels and looks gorgeous!

 The shower was really fun and I got to catch up with some old friends, and I didn't have anyone to watch, think about, feed, wrangle. It was awesome. Plus I got 4 hours of drive time to just think and not do anything.

Sunday was super low key and the only thing we did was go to swim lessons.  Swim Baby Fox swim!

Getting a jumping in treat for doing well on his swimming.

Ms. K showing him how to kick properly.

Learning the back stroke...he did pretty awesome at it if I do say so myself.

Then I made lots of food for the upcoming week, and laid around and did NOTHING, I watch 3 episodes of The Originals while the kids napped. I contemplated actually doing something, but said, nah, I'm going to veg and it was pretty great.

What did you do this weekend? Anything more fun and exciting than me? Next weekend I'm doing my first night away from Mini Fox, but it's a much needed break and fun time with some old friends.

 Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments, Bella & Lisa for Weekend Link-up,  Meg for Mingle Monday and Erin for Weekend Snapshot4