Reed's Nursery

Since I finally have Reed's nursery mostly put together the way I want it, I thought that I would share some pictures! I know I have a few readers who are expecting babies of their own, so maybe I can give them some ideas. I eventually want a few more things on the wall, maybe a John Deere picture or two, and who knows what else!

 Here's the view from the door.

 Here's the crib. My mom sewed everything!

 You can see the pattern better on the curtains, John Deere, of course!

 My wonderful Aunt Robin, at Alabama Slacker Mama, made his banner. See her for all your banner making needs!

 Here's his walk-in closet.

 As you can see, I have the clothes arranged by size.

 Here is a close up of one of the size dividers I made. I love being able to look in the closet and know how much of each size I have.

 I also have this closet organizer hanging in there. It's very hand for storing blankets, shoes, hats, anything! Also, to the left of it, I have all his bibs hanging on a hanger. Good way to have easy access and to keep them organized!

 Here is his changing table. You may recognize the "REED" letters from the decorations at my church shower. I tied some ribbon around them and let them dangle.

 The changing table has a door and three shelves. Two locker organizers fit perfectly inside the door, and thats where I store diapers. I found some baskets in the craft section of Walmart to store other goodies in too. The top basket has everything I may need to change his diaper, second basket has burp cloths, and third basket has his rattles/teething rings/pacifiers.

 This is his dresser. My Uncle Marty, who just so happens to be married to my Aunt Robin, made that dog lamp for me when I was a baby. My mom and I re-covered it, and turned it "John Deere". There is also a clock hidden behind the piggy bank. Even though Reed can't tell time yet, it's handy in the middle of the night!

 The last piece of furniture in Reed's room is the bookshelf. Once I get all my childhood books up here, it will be full!

 This is the nightlight I made for him. Very useful for those late night feedings! You can see a tutorial on how to make one here. Oh, and I actually made it about 12 hours before I went into labor. Who knew?! haha.

 I ordered these John Deere tractor hooks a couple of weeks ago, and we just have gotten them hung up. I actually have one more, but they need to be nailed into a stud, and it wouldn't fit here! I'm trying to figure out where to put it.

And last but not least, here is the closet door, complete with the giant ribbon that was on my mailbox, and a John Deere diaper stacker. Since I already had a place for diapers, I use this to keep receiving/swaddling blankets in. Works pretty good!

Anyways, hope y'all enjoyed the tour and maybe those of you who needed it, got some ideas!

House Tour Part Four!

Well this is the last part of my house tour, except for when I take some pictures of the outside, but that will be when there is something out there besides mud! This tour is of the two "brightest" rooms in my house, the dining room and kitchen!

Dining Room

Our dining room has a "farming" theme in it. We have a table that seats ten, and in that far corner, we have an antique hall tree. Hanging on the hall tree is an old cotton pick sack.

Here's our china cabinet with all our John Deere "fine china" in it. There's a stalk of cotton standing in the corner, and above that, on the shelves, are some old fruit jars. In the fruit jars there are some cotton bolls, cotton seed, and some spindles off a cotton picker.

It's hard to tell here, but the big picture on the wall is of a cotton picker in a cotton field. Some of our good friends bought that for our house warming gift. In the corner on the floor (hidden by the chair) is an old churn and a "Taters N Onyuns" bin. (Yeah thats how it's spelled on the lid, lol).

Kitchen

Here's the bar and log bar stools in the kitchen. I love the end bookshelf on the bar. It's where I keep all my cookbooks.

We have all stainless Whirlpool appliances. Here's the microwave, cooktop, and double ovens.

Here's the refrigerator, sink, dishwasher, and the other side of the pass through to the living room. I can watch tv when I clean up the kitchen or cook, yippee.

This log table is in our breakfast nook. I'm still looking for the perfect curtains for those windows.

Thanks to everyone who followed along on our house tour! Its your turn to show us around now!

House Tour Part Three!

If you have missed parts one and two of my house tour, please click here!

The Living Room

This is our gas fireplace and surrounding bookshelves. That is actually fake rock on our fireplace. Notice that you don't see any dvd players/directv boxes/etc?? We made a hole in the wall behind the tv and ran our wires through that hole. On the other side of the wall is a hall closet. All of our tv boxes are sitting on a shelf in that closet. We use a thing that boosts the signal of our remotes for them to be able to reach to the closet.

Here's our two couches. They are hard to see because of the glare out the patio doors. They are brown leather and the seats recline. The seats also glide on the love seat. Very comfy!!

This shot shows the pass through between the kitchen and the living room. I really like the glass cabinets overhead. They were my idea!

This picture shows the couch color a little better and also our log end tables. They are from the same place that made our bedroom furniture. If you look at the ceiling, you can tell that we have a tray ceiling. We painted the tray ceiling and the fireplace wall a darker color than the rest of the walls in the house. I think it looks pretty neat!


The Game Room

This is one of my favorite rooms! On our house plans, this was supposed to be a formal living room, but who uses those? I thought it would be a great place to put our Wii and X Box, and I could decorate it with all my Nascar stuff! See that big tv? I won it from Aarons at a race at Talladega in 2005!

I love the border and the blue color. It's the same blue that I used in the laundry room.

That glass display case if full of my diecast cars. Everyone needs to say hello to Kenny Schrader standing there. You can kinda see one in this picture, but there are double glass doors that we can close off if anyone gets too excited playing their video game!

This is the other side of the room (and other glass door). That black blob in the corner is two race tires. I have some rims in the other corner!


The Office
This is our bookshelf that we have full of our books from college, and thats the "bill paying" desk.

This is the desk I'm sitting at now!


It has a closet because this room could've also been a bedroom. Thats an antique mail desk beside the doors.

This is also the least finished room in our house. I want to decorate it with Alabama football memoribilia. I have a little bit as you can see here, but I definitely need more on the walls!

Thanks for touring the house! Stay tuned for another tour! :)

House Tour Part Two!

If you missed Part One, click here!

Today, we are touring the laundry room and bathrooms!

This is the laundry room.

My washer/dryer are "turqouise sky" Electrolux brand. Oh how I love them. No farm wife should be without them. I also have two upper cabinets in each corner of the room and a mop sink.
You can see the color of my walls pretty good in this picture. This is also the washboard that belonged to Lance's grandparents.
This is my pantry and stand up freezer. The one thing I wish would've been different about this house is the pantry. The laundry room didn't turn out exactly like it showed on the house plans, and the pantry wasn't supposed to be right behind the door, but we weren't around when it was framed, so now we just deal with it.

This is our master bath.

Here's our jacuzzi and fancy window.

This is Lance's sink and walk in closet. I have one exactly like it on the opposite wall. You can see my closet door in his mirror.

I'm decorating this bathroom with "rustic" tin signs that have shotgun brands/fishing brands/etc. on them.

Our shower/toilet area is in it's own little room. Our shower has two seats in it. Perfect for just sitting under the water when you've had a hard days farming. Too bad we can't afford to do that, haha.

This is our hall bathroom. If we have kids, this will be their bathroom.

We have double sinks in one room...

and the shower/toilet area in another room.

I love the decor in this bathroom!

This is the guest bathroom.

It has a John Deere plaid shower curtain

and bathroom accessories.

I've also hung some signs/car tags on the wall.

Last, but not least...Lance's bathroom in the garage!

This is where Lance goes to "defunk" before he's allowed in the house!

As you can see, this is where we hang our smelly farm/chicken house jackets,

and also our dirty shoes.

I hope you enjoyed House Tour Part Two, stay tuned for Part Three!