January Superlatives: a house log
Note: This is a retroactive post that I cobbled together in December of 2011 so I could make this page full of monthly recaps for the whole year (our first in our new house!). Yup, I am simply a bit type A. So here is what we tackled throughout the month of January – high school yearbook style.
Best Deal: Somehow snagging an energy efficient front loading washer and dryer for $638 (not each – total!) thanks to a ton of stacked discounts. And then we took it down another $75 by getting an energy efficiency rebate from our county. Huzzah!
Most Likely To Have A P-Diddy Reference: This post about rearranging our built-ins. It was hard! But so worth it.
Best Looking: Our tall, dark, and handsome built-ins, once we brought in a few coats of deep teal paint.
Most Ourdoorsy: Our leafy new duvet for our bedroom. I must admit it looks fairly cute with a pooch and a baby on it…
Most Hilarious: Discovering that we subconsciously take on our biggest most house-disrupting projects every. single. year at the same time: over the holidays. What is wrong with us?
Most Calming: Ripping out some crowded corner shelves to give our fireplace room to breathe. Oh and there are a bunch of caulking pointers in this post for anyone dealing with wall holes.
Most Likely To Do Secret Demo: Me, while John’s watching Clara. I could not stand the granite lip around the sink in our bedroom, so I made it look a lot less sinky (and more funriture-y) by ripping that baby out and then caulking and painting.
Most Reflective: Hanging a mirror in front of a window to make sense of our bedroom sink (now we can look straight ahead when we brush our teeth instead of craning our necks to see things in the medicine cabinet that used to hang on the wall to the right).
Hardest To Remember: The name of the soft blue-gray-green color that we used to paint our bedroom.
Most Disturbing: This post about the mirror that used to live on the back of the guest room door (that is right, it reflected your whole body as you sat on the porcelain throne).
Most Popular: This post about what we were nearly named surprised us by being one of the most commented posts of the month.
Most Overdue: A video tour of our new house (at last). If you are on a smart phone you will have to click here to see it.
Most Welcome Additions: Our new energy efficient front loading washer & dryer. And yes, I can in fact reach the buttons!
Most Romantic: Painting the mirror above our sink white, which makes for some fairly dreamy contrast in the evening.
Best Supporting Napkin: This gal, who fairly much inspired our whole house palette.
Sweetest: At last hanging things on the wall in Clara’s nursery. Oh and we included details about how we secured a mirror over her crib so we’d never have to worry about it falling or getting knocked down.
Biggest Fail: This baaaad choice of a shower curtain for the guest room. Oh well, live and learn. And thank goodness for returns.
Biggest Tools: Us, as we detailed all the tools and Hands-on supplies that we own in this post (yes, we in fact laid them all out on the rug and took photos like crazy people).
Most Indecisive: Picking a soft gray wall color for our living room, hallway, and dining room (yup, we painted a bunch of giant swatches – and it worked!).
Most Cloud-Esque: Painting our giant living room and extra wide hallway that carefully selected soft platinum gray color. It was plenty of rolling and cutting in – but totally worth it.
Best Discovery: Finding this remarkable note hidden in our hall bathroom by the previous owners.
Most Sore: Us, after painting all of the wood trim in our living room white.
Most Likely To Result In A Giant Piece Of Furniture Being Delivered To Our House: This rundown all about hunting for the ideal jumbo-sized sectional.
Most Swatch-Glad: This post about bringing home a ton of fabric samples while searching for the right one for our bedroom curtains.
Weirdest Post I Ever Did Write: This one about some new Target pillows. I am such a dork.
Most Rambunctious: Burger going cray-zay on our new bed pillows.
Most Domestic: Me and my bedroom curtain undertaking (ok, so it did not in fact include sewing, but there was some ironing involved).
Creepiest Inanimate Objects: Our cabinets, especially since they are consistently watching us…
Biggest Surprise: Our giant Ikea sectional’s arrival (aka: Karl, since his formal Ikea name is Karlstad). Here we are putting him together on video:
