Color Code A Crowded Key Ring

There's nothing worse than getting to your front door and fumbling around for what seems like hours to find the one key that will unlock the door ahead. Not only is it annoying but it's probably not the safest way to go either. To help you spot your house key, car key, or office key in a jiffy, just splash a few dabs of colorful nail polish on the ends of your keys and let dry. Not only it super cute, it's also super helpful! Hopefully this will make your day a little less hectic!

FREE PAINT SATURDAY AT ACE HARDWARE

If you're out and about today {which you should be, 'cause it's Saturday WHOOP WHOOP}

and have been wanting to try out a new color in your home stop by an Ace Hardware and get a free quart of paint TODAY ONLY!! Let me repeat, FREE. The best part is, its not just one or 2 colors they're giving away here, you can bring in a paint chip or tell them the color you want {even if it's not a Clark + Kensington Paint} and they will match it to the exact color you want AND IT'S STILL FREE!

And as If it couldn't get better, there's primer already in all of the paints you get so you won't even have to buy primer!! This deal just couldn't get any better

*It's one per person per store

Today is the last Saturday they are running this promotion EVER, so take advantage of it while you can!!

Wanna hear a secret?

We got the grey paint we used to paint the master bedroom in our new house seen HERE

for free {last Saturday, when having another free paint Saturday}. We saved $75 on paint by going into 3 different Ace Hardwares and got a total of 6 free quarts or paint. Is that bad?

Well I hope not, 'cause we are doing the same thing today! Ha Ha Ha

So grab some friends or just some random people you find in the parking lot and get them all to ask for the color of paint you want and you'll paint a whole 1, 2, 3 rooms for free!!

Hey, in the long run you're just trying to support your local Ace Hardware and take advantage of the nice deals they're offering ;)

Have a great weekend!!

Renovation Part 2

 { If you missed the Renovation Part 1 click HERE }

It has been a full week, between painting, and packing, and mentally preparing myself for the start of a new school year happening in 1 1/2 sad short weeks... I'm pretty dang exhausted and stressed, and school hasn't even started yet-go figure.

Anyway, enough of my complaining, while we continued on our no-wallpaper-allowed escapade, we actually took a quick detour and hit up the weird light pink painted second family room. Yes, it was actually light pink, a dingy light pink.

To help you get this visual in your head here is a close resembling swatch to what the god awful color looked like:


Now, you're probably thinking "Oh my gosh it's not that bad, it's actually kind of pretty" and that I'm over exaggerating. But to be honest, this is a pretty color, it would be splendid as a nail color but not a room color. 

So we got to painting...



For this paint color we actually mixed 3 neutral tans together and came up with this color. If you want more info on the color click HERE and scroll down!



Here, you can see the contrast between the old & new paint, but this doesn't accurately show the gaudy cotton candy pink... I couldn't quite picture it correctly.

This was once we had completed the room, but the paint hadn't dried yet.

I will post after pictures by the end of the day of the completed room {hint: It looks sooooo much better}

Next up on our redo list was this yucky looking light fixture...

This thing looked like it had taken a beating in the last 70 years...

Can you believe that's the same grey paint we used in the master bedroom?!?!

That's the cool thing about painting is it's like your wiping away a whole other decade{or in this houses case almost 7 decades} of chapters in the houses life,

and starting a whole new one.

In the last house we lived in we didn't do any updating or painting, we just left the house as we found it. So this whole painting renovation process has been new to me and I have to say I love the power of paint! It transforms a room, or in our case most of the house, into a completely new house with completely new memories to come.

Phewww, another round of renovations done and a few more to come, stay tuned!