Life with the Rogers

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Floor Plans

July 3, 2007 at 3:20 am · Filed under decorating, dining room, home office, living room, north dakota

For my family:

As all the family down south will appreciate, I have updated the floor plans for our house. As you may remember, there was a bit of confusion from a certain gentleman when relaying the house specs to his wife when he was in ND and she was in GA. Curtains were bought, furniture was planned, etc etc. Upon arrival in ND, however, the true layout of the house was revealed. This, of course, was after many hours of trying to guess the floor plan from the southern family contingent and said guessing was, in fact, wrong. Windows appeared as if from nowhere and walls were put up overnight.

Anyway, here they are since you can’t be here to see in person and I have yet to get a video camera.:

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Painting and Other Renovations

April 2, 2007 at 8:29 pm · Filed under decorating, dining room, living room, painting

It’s official! One room is COMPLETELY finished! Well, except for the AMAZING lamps that Josh created from old tree stumps…they will be featured in a later blog. He has to re-wire the rest of the room before we can place the lamps in there, right now there’s no place to plug them in! Anyway, the living room is DONE! My awesome sis, Deb, visited last week and helped me TREMENDOUSLY by painting my house for me. :) I helped, but it was her expert cutting in that saved the day.

Over the weekend we went to Sherwin Williams and picked up “Searching Blue” for the living room, “Harvester” for the kitchen, some kind of amazing green that i can’t remember the name for the front sunroom, and a really cool enamel red for the kitchen cabinets.

Here’s my messy kitchen nook. Eventually what i’d like to do is have Josh build small pantry shelves on either side of the entry way which I would cover with my wonderful fabric that is currently in my sewing basket. I’m also going to get a white pedestal table as a breakfast table to go in here. Josh will make a bench to go under the window and around the corner. Maybe paint the bookshelf/hutch i have in there white? Right now i have absolutely NO pantry. Nice.

The pictures don’t convey it completely but it is so COZY in that room with the warm wall color, the big HUGE comfy couch, and amazing big thick wood trim everywhere. The ceiling fan which was originally in the kitchen completes the craftsmen style that the whole downstairs has. Once i get my sewing machine in the mail I’ll make the curtains and hang them up on the big windows. :)
THe sunroom isn’t quite so dark, it’s really a more earthy green. I can’t wait for all the nursery’s to start stocking their flowers and plants. We did go to Walmart and buy some lilies and hyacinths last night but that still doesn’t fulfill my insane desire to grow things! Maybe I’m frustrated because I only have 4 real months of grow time here when I’m used to most of the year in GA?

Now see my beautiful fabric curtain that i made with some of my fabric. It will also get a valance of a different fabric but I need a sewing machine to finish that piece.

Picture the curtain next to the new cabinet color of red enamel for a french provencale style:

That’s all I have to show for today. Next time I’ll go into a triade about the reno in the soon to be powder room formerly the downstairs coat closet. That’s an interesting story. :)

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Living Rm to Dining Rm

March 24, 2007 at 3:25 am · Filed under decorating, dining room, living room, sofa

So we switched the living room with the dining room. The reason we did this crazy thing is because we got a really good deal on a GREAT sectional sofa. The only problem with the sectional was that it was 110 inches long. Yes, that’s right, over 9 FEET long. 4 seats on one side of that bad boy! Since our living room wasn’t exactly making the best use of space anyhow, we decided to do a switch-er-o.

These are a few pictures of the big papa. That last one of the sofa includes the ottoman that my dad made that we affectionately call “the big cheese” because it bears a striking resemblance to a Wisconsin cheese wheel.

I am also including some semi-finished pictures of our dining room and my favorite room, the downstairs sun room. The upstairs sun room still has some issues with the mess and boxes, etc to deal with before I snap any pictures in that room. (Notice dog #1 sleeping in his favorite chair)


Notice #2 dog sleeping upstairs in his bed on the floor of our room. How I love the bizzles!

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