Beautiful Beth's

Here we now are touring Beth's Beautiful home. As you can tell, she has a very great style and loves the country/shabby chic look.

Originally, this was the first room in the house--this picture was taken standing in the front door. They turned it into a dining room.

Here it is as a dining room. It is the first room you walk into. The hutch is actually a dresser. It was originally a medium oak that we painted and antiqued. For a while, it served as a TV stand:

The kitchen. We didn't get a completely before picture. This one was taken mid-makeover. Originally, the walls were a dark caramel color. Here they had already painted them blue, but as you will notice that didn't stick. This is the kitchen and family room completely done. One thing we like in this is the kitchen chairs. This was just a cheap kitchen set from K-mart, but we spray painted each of the chairs a different color to add some more character.

Here is a little bit closer look at the kitchen. These cabinets were a base dark oak when they moved in. My brother put wainscoting over the laminate panel in the middle of the cabinets and then painted them white and added the pulls. This is one place where we are shooting ourselves for not taking the before picture because you just can't begin to understand the difference it made! I tried to blow this picture up so you could see the details, but it wasn't the clearest picture to start with, so it you still can't see too much. Too bad! So cute!

Here is the little boys bedroom:Here is the guest room. Beth is the only girl in her house, so the guest room went all girl!

Here is the downstairs family room. We need some opinions: this house is about to go on the market and realtor thinks this wall should be painted over the same caramel as rest of the walls. What do you think? Keep the stripes or go with an all brown theme? Vote on the pole at the top!

The play room: This was once a large open room into the family room, but my little brother close this part off. We love it!

This closet door is covered with chalkboard spray so the kids can draw on it.The Office:
Here it is before......and here it is after...

The is a cool idea from a neighbor of ours. These are just regular clip boards that had paper modge-podged on it. In the picture 2 above there are little pineapple cans hanging on the mirror that also had scrap book paper modge-podged.

Here is the Master. Please admire all the amazing paneling. We just love it! It has such a cute rustic look. My little brother is the author of all the paneling.

The Master Bath

Here we are in the nursery: