Sad State Of Affairs

After 8 years of marriage, and almost as many in grad school. We were finally able to buy a home. We were so excited. I had major plans on what we could do to update our 1950 ranch. Then reality hit.  It started with our very blue kitchen. My mom came to visit and we decided to start with the country blue cabinets. Here is the before:

Here is the after:

Yup, it's not great. We had to paint and paint the yellow (I think six coats. Words of advice, three coats of primer over country blue) and after all that work my friends still asked me if they were a green color. Yup, blue and yellow make green. :) Also, for whatever reason, the hardware doesn't want to line up right anymore. Maybe it was mad about the spray paint???

So, three weeks later this is where we are at.

This leads me to the many other issues I would like to tackle one day but don't know when or how. Anyone good at removing many layers of pink carpet from a bathroom floor by any chance??? Or a carpeted kitchen? How about the water spouts that come up from a hole in our kitchen floor? I guess it is handy if you want to fill up a large bucket. I currently use it as a hook. Very vintage, right???

 

Now on to the room I would really like to makeover for my little boy, Dallin. He loves living in a house. Last week, out of the blue, he told me he hated having to live in an apartment. Then he told our neighbor how he use to "live in a very, very, very, very small apartment, now I have a HUGE house." (just to clarify,  1,100 sq ft is not huge but it feels that way to him.)

So here it goes. That is what Dallin's room usually looks like (this is embarrassing):

In case it was not completely obvious, Dallin loved stuffed animal. What in the world do I do with all of them? And yes, those awesome sheets are the same sheets my mom took to college with her. Totally vintage, right? (as long as you don't look at the holes) Our big problem is all his toys need to fit here:

Hmm....anyone else figure out kid toy storage? You could be rich. Also, what do you think of the awesome roller shaded? They grace most of our house. We did choose to remove the dingy lace curtains that were over the awesome roller shades.

One last picture:

 

Not much to see. Oh, other than the awesome pink carpet.  Ask Dallin how much he likes that. He keeps asking me to rip it out. There is hardwood underneath. And the head board is not attached. It was from craigslist and my attempted to make it look less like a prison cell.

It's a boring, messy blank slate. While it is a vast improvement over the apartment bedroom that was more storage than a place for Dallin to play, it still needs some serious help.

Dallin wanted to share what he wants to do in his room. He got a little shy after we started. And I guess there was some confusion on wallpaper and paint. it is because I keep mentioning how much wallpaper we have to remove in this house.

Dallin's Room from Nicole Richins on Vimeo.

So many possibilities, but no direction on where to start.