The current state of affairs.

So it's been forever since I've updated the blog, and for that I'm sorry, but while I wasn't blogging, I was finishing up my third year of teaching! Since I survived, I decided I should probably start working on the house again! Isaiah works in the farming industry so he doesn't have much free time either, so when we do work on the house, we try to knock out an entire project in a very short amount of time, like crazy people. The other side of that is us taking about an hour to work on something (which ends up being mostly set up and clean up)!

Our house is starting to look and feel more like a home now! I have a couple before pictures and several after pictures that show some of the progress over the last three months! :)

Back when we first got the house. :)

Today. :) Full of wedding stuff, red furniture, and board games!

Our kitchen when we moved in. :)

The same view from our current fridge placement. We're trying to figure out what exactly to do with the odd space in our kitchen, but we're thrilled that our kitchen isn't tiny!

The front bedroom when we moved in, with green carpet and all!

The front bedroom today (as I finally unpacked most of the stuff)!

The empty boxes from moving, our new curtain rod for the living room (Threshold from Target), and the beautiful oak mirror my dad made that still needs to find a home on our wall. :)

Our front door. :) [Elephant Gray, Valspar]

Our Kenmore gas range. :)

The linen closet portion of our linen closet...

and the paint store portion of our linen closet. :)

My desk in the front bedroom (complete with Mrs. Meyer Clean Day Lavender countertop spray, which is my FAVORITE). 

The before from our master bedroom...

And the after! The walls are Elephant Gray, by Valspar (the same as the inside of the front door).

Our dresser and TV. :)

AND the inside of the closet! We used Autumn Fire, by Valspar (the same paint as the outside of the front door).

And we painted the vents white too, and I think it looks awesome. :)

A bolder picture of the closet. :)

And that's how things are looking nowadays! We have high hopes for some other projects around the house, but with work and wedding planning, it'll take some time. :) Thanks for stopping by and being patient! We're learning to love working on the house together, and we're excited about all the fun stuff we get to show you down the road!

After April showers.

I had my first bridal shower over the weekend and was given quite a bit of fun stuff for the house! I am thrilled to say that all of my thank you cards are written and most of the things are unpacked just waiting to be used (and a few have already been put to use, like the dish scrubber...)! 

The lighting in our living room at night leaves much to be desired (which should change sometime!) but I wanted to show you a little bit of what things are looking like now. Pardon the low quality iPhone pictures...

Our living room has furniture once again! Isaiah finished painting last weekend and my mom and I vacuumed tons of dust out of the furniture and put it back where it goes for now. :)

We still have some paint to scrape off the window, but the after is SO much better than this before...

Our dining room finally looks like a dining room. :) The desk in the corner should have a new look one of these days, and that will hopefully be the home of our piano, a buffet (which we're still on the lookout for) and who knows what else. :)

Since we painted the outside of our front door, and the living room walls, the inside looked pretty sloppy being a nasty off-yellow. We chose Elephant Gray by Valspar. We have it chosen for another project that should be done within a month or two. :)

(See, I told you the lighting was bad!)

Before:

After:

There is SO much change since we bought the house just two months ago! I'm pretty impressed with us being two amateurs with two (beyond) full time jobs and planning a wedding, not to mention taking care of other house stuff that's not so fun. We'll share more on that later!