Weekend remodel

After waking at an ungodly hour of 7:30 and getting ready for swim class for Sophie followed by believe it or not Mason's first "REAL" hair cut , I have always done it myself,then on to project fixer upper #55 maybe? funny can a 4 year old house be a fixer upper , YES when it is not to your liking, any way , installing pine tongue and groove flooring. Who knew Home Depot sold unfinished pine flooring, well its cheap and easy to install, thanks to my wonderful crew husband cutter and wood carrier Sophie and nailer Mason all went smoothly.I purchased my first brad nailer ,wow what a dream , why didn't I just get one long ago. It was interesting to pull up the oh so ugly carpet which was called oatmeal , but in reality is some kind a pinky biege, to find only one cigarette butt and hot glue and 7 screws none of which actual penetrated the wood, to secure the newel post , interesting...so we bought a new newel post and will put that up tomorrow, and finish the rest of the install and distress and stain the floor.

Here are a few pics of how it its going.

The boys did play

Recently my husband Todd went on a trip to L.A. and stayed in Burbank where all the big studios are , he works in animation and met with some contacts and friends while he was there , now I can't say I am not a bit jealous that he went without me , I have always wanted to visit , but I am glad he got to go. So here are a few pictures of the boys, Todd and Burt Ward(aka the "Robin") ,and Todd in the Monkees car , and him under the Hollywood sign.

Looked like fun .

Ever evolving ...

I think that "decorating" is a process , you could hire someone to do it for you or do it yourself, but it evolves over time or should , of course we have all seen a room decorated in the 70's that remains to be shrink wrapped from the past , I love listing in the MLS that mentioned "maintained" which means trapped in the past to me , or needs gutting really, green shag and nastly paneling, poor layouts kitchens and bathrooms in desperate need of a wrecking ball. I have always moved every 3 years or so , with a new blank slate to make my own in what ever style or colour I love for the moment , but since we have invested so much in our home and life here I find myself tweeking what we have which is even more fun than I thought making all the improvements that I dream of.I am not fond of builder homes , they come very bland , and going through with all the updates that I would want at the time of purchase would have added $50,000.00 or more,not an option, so I have been slowly improving one step at a time.
My latest improvements are the lights in the kitchen, I found these very affordable fixtures at Home Depot , $50.00 each , of course considering the difficult task that the electrician had trying to put two boxes where there was one and getting them in the location I wanted wow I have so much respect for the trade, I am still waiting on the bill ,but it will be worth it , it looks incredible, where most have a small awkward table I have a huge island ,and my new lights are the icing on the cake.
The photo of the sink is the first improvement we made , I found that Kholer sink for sale in the paper for $100.00 and the faucet on ebay about 5 years ago. I love my huge sink it has 3 bowls , although I would love an apron front sink but one big bowl or two , I don't know maybe.
I have put in the photo of the previous light fixture as well. What do you think?