Thursday, July 13, 2006

Making the House OUR Home

After a whirlwind of decisions - should we stay or should we move to Houston-we decided to stay. With that being said, we started working on our mile long list to turn our house into a great home that we always wanted. One of the check list items is to replace our window treatments. We are installing 31/2 inch wood plantation shutters up on the entire front of the house, wood wovens in the basement and dinning room and honey comb shades in the back, upstairs bedrooms. The honeycomb shades and the wood wovens were installed last week. We love them, especially the honeycomb shades b/c we think that it's the main reason Joshua napped for 1 hour and 40 mins on Saturday and 2 hours and 30 mins on Sunday. Wow! That sure beats his 30 min naps and then me driving him around for another hour ever weekend.

Dinning Room w/ the Wood Wovens

TV Room in the Basement

Guest Bedroom in the Basement - No More Worrying About Kids Spying TT

Honeycomb shades in the back bedrooms

We decided to install blackout honeycombs so when the shades are down, it's dark in the rooms. The blue room in Joshua's room and you can sorta get the idea how the shade works. And yes, I know the crib is backwards... we had to turn it about 8 months ago because Joshua was climbing out of the side where the rail is lower. The green room has its shade down and you can get a better idea how it darkens the room when it's down. We hope that Joshua will permanently napl like he did last weekend and if he does, these shades are worth every penny and then some!