This weekend we did a small project but a lot of shopping! We put up the fireplace mantle and it will look A LOT better once we take down some of the brick and paint it. I did not know if the mantle would really work on brick – the website said it would, but come on, with this house you can’t follow any rules. Luckily, the mantle does work on brick and will allow me to decorate for the holidays while we continue the other projects. We started to price out the fireplace inserts. I’m thinking they made this one on their own when they built the house as these sizes do not exist anywhere I have looked yet. That may mean all of the brick will come down and I’ll come up with something else, we will see.
We found the new front door we want, but in doing the measurements came to realize the previous owners lifted the floor and cut the front door to fit. Ugh! We will do it right, so front door is picked out but will take 28 days to arrive, so will use some cheesy flooring on the landing so that the door fits properly (rather the right way). We also picked out the new soft water system so that will be next weekends project. Home Depot started their Black Friday sales and I was able to order 2 vanities for upstairs for the price of one. Now that is a DEAL! They are supposed to be in by Nov 19, so Ciera has until then to figure out her new bathroom color and shower tile as after Thanksgiving that will be the main project.
Ciera and I also managed to make some marmalade sweet rolls, didn’t turn out too bad and it is always a mystery when we try something new due to the gluten-free flour. Sometimes things are just too gritty or taste like too much flour when trying to get the right consistency, these turned out alright.
Bones to Beauty 