Remodeling Again???

No, I'm not that crazy - a home remodel once in 100,000 years is enough for me.  There are a few little updates I want to make to the house though.  To be honest, it's more fun little projects than actual work.

When we did the big remodel last year (Check out posts ONE, TWO, and THREE) we had the whole house, including the ceilings, repainted.

But guess what they forgot??

Poor air vents!

Yes, those are the air vents.  Now I forgot to take a picture of what they actually looked like on the ceiling, but let me tell you, compared to the freshly painted, white ceiling, those stuck out like a sore thumb!

Thanks to my very creative friend, Amy, I was able to make these look 100 times better for about $2.00!

That's Amy at her Small Group Birthday celebration!

All I did was SPRAY PAINT them!  I got a can of semi-gloss spray paint, had Darrin take them all down, and spent about 10 minutes outside painting them (and the screws!).

The Before and After!

I think they look so much better.

All finished

 And now the ceiling matches and that makes me happy!

The color didn't come out that great - the ceiling is white and wall is blue, but you get the idea!

Like I said, I have several projects I want to start working on, but the next one is going to be tackling this bad boy:

I'm going to paint it white, well shabby chic white probably.  It's going to go in the spare bedroom so Darrin has his own set of drawers.  Right now I have taken over 6 of the 8 in the dresser in our bedroom!

Do you have any big projects you'd like to start this year?  I'd love to hear about them so share them below in the comments!

Almost a Landlord!

Woo hoo - I think we have a renter for my house!  They verbally committed today and want to move in at the end of the month.  I can't tell you how excited I am - mainly because this the first (and only) couple I showed the place too!

I'm going to miss my living room!

I must admit, however, I am super sad to move out.  This was the first place I owned - and all by myself.  Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to start my life with Darrin, but I liked the feeling of independence and success I felt for making it on my own. 

Anyway, I wrote up a Rental Application to send tonight and wow did I feel like an obsessed stalker.  I'm pretty sure I asked every personal question I could, but I just want to make sure there are no surprises.  She's a teacher though so I'm pretty sure everything will be fine but after a CRAZY rental issue that happened with some of our employees at work I'm trying to be overly cautious!

And as if that wasn't good enough news for the day, I talked to Margarita (yes that is her name and yes it is a different Margarita than my bf from college!) today and she told me Home Depot is going to get us new flooring for free!!  For those of you who don't remember - or don't feel like scrolling down a post or two (lazy lazy readers!) - we have a little...a lot...MORE than a lot of issues with our floor.  Hearing from Home Depot was the icing on an amazing day - made only better by the fact that Darrin sold his couch tonight and got WAY WAY more than it was worth (in my opinion at least). 

Now I'm watching So You Think You Can Dance and starting to look forward to our trip to Charlotte on Friday.  Also, anyone else think Mitchell and Caitlin are all kinds of Awesome!!  I can't decide if I like them or Melanie and Marko better! 

Have any of you ever rented your house?  Was it a good experience or did it leave your wishing you hadn't?