Current nightstand

So we have an old wooden crate we're using as a nightstand at the moment and I love how old and rustic it is. 

Maybe I love sleeping next to old rusty nails?

One down, One to go

We got one of the rolling racks done!  Yay!

 

 

Here's a shot of the casters.  We just ordered some off etsy that are from the 1920s? I believe.  They were a little smaller than I thought but not bad

Seriously love the stain!!!!  In case you're interested it's dark walnut by Minwax.  Love it so much we'll prob use it on everything.

Eventually they'll go into the second bedroom but for now it's in the living room as we still need to paint that room.  But we (mostly Chaynce, ok just Chaynce) made this from scrap materials so we only paid for the stain and casters. Score!

Rental Progress/Update

Remember how I had this lofty goal of getting everything unpacked/painted/updated/pretty a month after we moved in. I was soooo wrong.  But I have to tell myself we really have gotten a lot done in the last month.  We got Internet!!!  (which was actually a huge process as we didn't have phone lines in the house for dsl and we're kind of in a dead zone for mobile broadband but we got lines ran to the house and finally got it all set up for not too much money. Yay!)

The first room we tackled was the front bedroom which we'd be using as our room.  We got it painted finished sewing the duvet cover and moved our bed and TV in there as not much else would fit in such a small room.

 We went with a medium grey paint and antique white trim/ceiling.  You can't see how nice it looks in this pic but this is the only pic I have right now. We love the flour sack duvet cover, we got it from H&M and added some material to the outside as they only had a twin size.  We need to add more pillows and find another set of pillowcases but that stuff has been moved to the end of the to do list along with adding decor for now.  There's just too much else in the house to do.

Next we went to do the bathroom.  It's been a much bigger process than the first room. 

Right side of the shower before

Right side of the shower cleaning out all the rotted/crumbling stuff

Clearing out all the nasty at the top of the shower stall

Left side of the shower, same story.  Don't you love the rotten floorboards?

The bathroom is mostly done now.  I need to do another coat of paint but there's been much puttying/silicone/scrubbing/caulking going on in there.  It's going to look infinitely better and I'm excited.  We also were able to find some old rusty metal meat drawers on craigslist that we're going to be using for a storage cabinet next to the washer/dryer that I'm really excited about.  It was also only $5/drawer so very cheap for something vintage industrial that we love.  I'll post pics when we finish the bathroom.

Other than that we've been winterizing the doors, got a microwave, got a couch, got the shed cleared out (mostly), got a lawn mower, one rolling rack is almost finished (I'm hoping tonight), and I think we'll try to paint the second bedroom this week (fingers crossed)