Master Bath “Inspiration Board”

A big thank you to Jen for putting this together for me for our master bath reno that we’ll hopefully get to do in the near future.  I haven’t had any time to look into details (except found that cute vanity from costco for a great price) and she has such a good eye for this stuff!  What do you guys think?

Sneak Peek of the Nursery

We did a lot of DIY projects in here and I plan to share all of them and post pics of the finished nursery this week (just put cute new knobs on her dresser last night) but here is a teaser for now.  The bedding we chose didn’t come with art for the walls so Len created these in photoshop and we painted the mats and framed them (details to come in a later post).  

And a pic of the munchkin in the glider in her room:

More details and pictures of her nursery to come soon…

HGTV… Call Us! (Master Bath Reno Related)

I just sent in our info to HGTV’s Renovation Realities.  I really wanted to submit our info to Hammer Heads or Carter Can, since they actually help with projects, but they only want people in the LA area.  Boo.

Well, the reason I submitted our info to them is because we have a major master bath reno that we’d LOVE to do in the near future.  We need to save up a little more money first but it’s definitely high up on our list of home improvements.

Here are a few pics of the master bath when we moved in:

vanity area

left wall

back wall (sink)

right wall (shower)

We haven’t done much to it except paint it a super light ivory color (which we hate) and put in a new light fixture.

This pic is looking from the master bedroom… there is an archway into the vanity/closet area and then a pocket door into the actual bathroom:

Here is the layout how it is now…

Here is the new layout that we came up with… after many ideas on what to do:

We are going to be on a strict budget so moving plumbing and electrical too much isn’t an option.  What do you think?  Do you think not having a tub is a bad idea? We never use it (in the last 2 years I used it once for 5 minutes when I was in labor!) and we have a guest bathroom with a nice tub.  Oh and keep in mind we have NO linen closet right now which is a huge pain, we keep our towels under the sink!

We’ll take any input you guys have.

Hello Gorgeous

I LOVE the pops of yellow in this room.  It inspires me so much… now if only we could afford a new sofa, chairs, curtains, throw pillows and a rug (not happening, that stuff is wayyyy too far down on the list of things we “need”).

photo courtesy of washingtonpost.com

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Casamacho (+1) is back… it’s true this time!

Well, it’s been over a year since this blog has been updated and we’ve done so much to the house and have a new addition to our family! 

This was me during most of 2009…

Our little girl, Sienna, was born in August and is almost 6 months old now.  We are just so in love with her and have been spending every waking moment with her so we don’t miss anything.  She changes by the minute! 

But now we can finally put some more time and energy into our house again and the Casamacho blog.  Yay!  Can’t wait to share what we’ve done around the house lately… oh and to share the final kitchen reno pics!!!   I realize I never did that, sorry.

What’s to come:

-Final kitchen pics
-Foyer update
-Sienna’s nursery
-Master bedroom decor
-Upcoming projects
-Baby stuff*

*Sooooooo since I’m a new mommy now it’s only natural that I’d want to talk about mommy stuff too so just to warn you some posts might be parenting related, baby related, etc. 

Like the post before this said…. STAY TUNED!  For real this time…

We’re Back!

Sorry we’ve been M.I.A. lately, but with the holiday season it had been very hectic.  But, we’re back and ready to share some more of our home improvement projects!
 

Tahiti Dreamin’

Wouldn’t you love to live here for a while?

With this as your backyard?

Or here?

With your backyard looking like this?

And your bathroom like this?

We just loved our honeymoon to the French Polynesian islands (Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora)!  The sunsets were gorgeous and we wanted to display a few photos around the house so we decided to take this photo that we took of a sunset on the island of Moorea:

And split it into three separate photos (using the crop tool in shutterfly) to frame:

  

We used white frames from Target and hung them at the entrance of our master bedroom:

My inspiration for this was from This Young House.  They framed three sunset photos from a trip they took and hung them in their bedroom and we loved the idea.  Thanks TYH!

Tour Of Our First Apartment

I have some old photos of the first apartment that we moved into together back in 2005 (and stayed in for two years) that I thought I would share.  It was a one bedroom/one bath apartment that we rented on Long Island (NY) with really nice hardwood floors, white walls that we couldn’t paint, a tiny galley kitchen and noisy neighbors that we could hear through the vents. 

Although the couch was a little big for the space (front door is right to the right of it), it worked out great for when people slept over.  It’s extremely comfortable and we actually still have it in our living room now.

I still remember what we went through to put those three Ikea shelves on the wall!  We actually painted the largest shelf white and put it up in the laundry room of our home now and plan on using the other two as well.

The galley kitchen was cute in the beginning, but after two years really started to get on our nerves.

This area served as a dining room, office and storage.  The table was from a family member and the desk and shelving was from Ikea.  Didn’t I tell you the wood floors were gorgeous?

Our only bathroom was… cozy.

Our bedroom was a really good size and we were able to buy a few substantial pieces of furniture, which we still have in our master bedroom now.

Hope you enjoyed the little tour of our first place!  A tour of our 2nd apartment (first in FL) coming soon…

Number One Fan

We need a new light fixture with a fan for our master bedroom.  I found a few today while browsing the Lamps Plus website that I like and was hoping you could help us decide.  

 

This one is not in the running since it’s $650.00 (!!) but I thought it was pretty cool:

Let us know what you think!   Thanks.