home tour: master bedroom / master bathroom.

This is our master bedroom in all its glory.  It has super fancy wood paneling.  Seriously... check that stuff out.  Darker/richer than the rest of the paneling in the house and no knots.  It's really gorgeous paneling.  

Two things bug me in this shot.  One, if you look closely, you can see how crappy a job the previous owners did on the trim when they replaced the windows.  I don't know if they just stained it wrong or if they chose a bad wood for staining, but it's a splotchy mess.  It's a small detail, but it drives me insane.  Second, the quilt at the end of our bed.  I bought this when we lived in an all-cream apartment and I loved it.  It was bright and airy and gray!  Everything I needed.  Now I think it looks washed out against the paneling.  I'm hoping my aunt might consider whipping us up a new quilt with some brighter colors.  But until then, it stays (hello budget!)

This is my nightstand.  It's usually not this clean.  We made them from a finished wood top and hairpin legs.  I'll post about that sometime.  The lamp is from Target.  The pillowcases are from Ikea.  I love these pillowcases.  The orange pillowcases have seen better days though and just aren't as white as they once were.  I'm on the lookout for something new.  I want something with a bright pattern that isn't too matchy-matchy with the rest of the bedding.  That's apparently really hard to find.

Behind this folding screen slider thing is my closet.  Yes, my closet takes up an entire wall.  I can't even fill it because I don't really have a lot of clothes.  It's at least 1/3 empty.  You also get a glimpse of Rich's man corner - complete with backpack, random axe, and his red plaid hat.  Rich may not be from NH originally, but he's learning to fit in pretty well.

This is the wall across from our bed.  The pocket door to the master bathroom is on the right.  These are old dressers from our last apartment.  The apartment that had no functional closets, so I bought a pair of these and forced Rich to use them.  The other one currently resides in Rich's closet.  His closet setup drives him insane, so a renovation is probably in our future.  This dresser above is way to large for the space, but does the trick until I stop being lazy and sell them.

The master bathroom.  I try not to think about this room much despite the fact that I use it everyday.  It screams 80s to me.  I wanted to demo it as soon as we moved in, but then the general costs of homeownership got in the way.  The bathroom will probably be renovated down the line - maybe 3-5 years.  It's a completely functional bathroom and nobody uses it besides us, so it's not a priority right now.  Notice how weird and square the toilet is.  Notice how everything is a slightly different shade of off white.  Notice the same crappy linoleum floor tiles as the other bathroom.  Ugh.

Fun story.  When we first moved in, the pocket door to the bathroom had been removed.  You can't see directly into the bathroom from the bedroom, but the bathroom is still a little too close for comfort.  The reason why the pocket door had been removed?  The previous owners set up a vanity on the other side of the closet and put a light fixture over it.  Seriously.  They chose a light fixture over having bathroom privacy.  We changed that pretty quickly.

home tour: the guest bedroom / bathroom.

The guest bedroom.  Rich is determined to make our guest bedroom the best guest bedroom ever.  It is on its way.

We're slowly piecing things together.  As with everything else - we're on a budget.  We bought a great new quilt, but threw on our old bedspread for an extra layer of warmth this winter.  We picked up the tables at a thrift store down near Rich's parents.  Originally, we just bought one and used it as a coffee table in the living room.  Then the thrift store slashed the price of the matching table.  The much lower price worked for our budget and we had some great end tables.  

This is our kind of sad looking gallery wall.  I wanted some time to grow into it.  You know, take my time to find and make stuff I loved.  Now part of me wants to just throw up anything and make the wall look a little more full.  Just replace filler stuff as I find and make the stuff I love.  We'll have to wait and see if a ton of frames just happen to fall in my lap in the near future.

This is our brown/peach bathroom in all its glory.  The peach might be on its way out, but that wallpaper will be there until it starts falling down.  The floor needs to be replaced.  It's some crappy peel and stick linoleum that was leftover from when the previous owner re-did the master bathroom.  It's purple-ish and doesn't match and drives me slightly insane.

We picked up the wild boar carving at a flea market.  Now, I'm not the best at picking out art.  I second guess my choices and get bored with stuff easily.  The wild boar changed everything.  I smile every time I see that little guy and he will always have a place in my home.  One of my favorite purchases ever.

the culprit.

That, my friends, is what caused water to gush wildly out of our ceiling a few weeks ago.  The pipe was COMPLETELY corroded.

The pipe burst on a Saturday night and the plumber came to fix it on the following Tuesday morning.  We were unable to find a shut off that allowed us to have partial water, so we just shut off the water main and made due for a few days.  I totally recommend this approach.  The plumber told us that if we had them come the day we called (Monday), it would have cost us double.  And if we called Sunday it would have been even more.

Rich paid attention to the plumber work and thinks that he could do any sort of similar repair in the future.  We decided to skip the DIY fix this time in order to start a relationship with a local plumber in case of an actual emergency down the line.  Also, there might be some plumbing work we aren't comfortable doing as we start to renovate the bathroom.

anniversary present.

I said in my last post that we had big plans for our house.  Turns out, our house has big plans for us.  Enter our anniversary present from the house...

What is that you might be asking?  That's just a burst pipe in our basement bathroom.  If we turn the water main back on, that thing is gushing like a fountain.

Thankfully, the basement half bathroom has been a hot mess since we moved in.  Here's a picture I took during the home inspection:

This is a tiny bathroom.  With a huge utility sink (that's not even properly attached to the wall and is resting on bricks), a full closet, and no toilet.  The full closet (on the right hand side of the photo) may have also been a tad moldy, pre-leak.  

We knew the bathroom would have to be gutted even before the leak showed up.  But now it's moved up on the project list.  Pretty much to the top of the list.  The plan is to a) fix the leak, b) gut the room, and c) slowly refinish it as our budget allows.

The plumber comes tomorrow morning.