How many Christmas trees are too many?

Wizard of Oz/Guest Room tree. I've made changes to it since I've put it up and I'm not completely done with it yet. But here it is so far.

Main bathroom tree

Master bedroom trees

Kitchen Tree

Sports Tree

Main Entry Hall Tree

Sun room tree which is my Charlie Brown tree.

Plus all the little trees outside.

And I still continue buying them.

I think it's a sickness.

How about flooring?

Nothing is straight in this house, floors, ceilings, walls, etc. We've decided to go with it, gotta love an old crooked house, right? It's only horrible when you have to do flooring or try to measure up or down from a wall. But yet, I hated the carpet and it had to go. With 2 dogs and 3 cats carpet is so not a good idea.

 Here is the horrible matching carpet and walls. Keep in mind that ugly box step to the kitchen for later.

My rug even looks horrible against it.

So one day while browsing pinterest, I came across a flooring post that would be WONDERFUL for my floor! The idea came from Quarry Orchard, even though they didn't even know what it would be when they started. I was happy to learn from them and took it all to heart!

 We ripped up all the carpet and padding. Gross huh? We (he) then removed all the carpet tack strips and together we pulled out the 5 million staples from the padding. The couch stayed in here the entire time because I ran out of room to stash furniture, it was like a maze in my house.

They didn't know they were staining the planks, we did. So when we found minwax stain for $2.50 a quart at ReStore, we knew we would stain the sub floor a darker color than our planks to show through the grooves. And it dries much faster than paint, so it was perfect! Somewhere along in this mess, I decided the horrible already painted to look like brick fireplace had to go, and before I knew it, I was priming it too.

Since this was a big job, we went to Sutherlands for the plywood and had THEM cut it into planks. We used 1/4" sanded red oak and had it cut in 5 7/8" strips so they would come out even. The living room joins with the guest room, sun room, kitchen and our bedroom/parlor. The kitchen has allure flooring in it that was chosen so it could get wet. The guest room has original hardwood floors that are kind of dark. The sun room floor is hard wood that is painted red. The bedroom/parlor has carpet but oh what a surprise I found under it. We weren't trying to be all matchy matchy so we decided to go with wide planks and a light stain because of the dark walls. We chose 1/4" so it would be flexible with our crooked floors.

We used ipswich pine for the plank stain, also purchased from Restore KC, nice huh? We did all the staining outside and between the 2 of us it didn't take too long because it dried quick. We also did the poly outside but it took a lot longer because we didn't have the room to lay it ALL out to dry between coats. That and it finally rained here on and off all week the week we decide to work outside, figures huh? We used 3 coats of poly on each plank. We used a poly made by Rustoleum that was only $24 a gallon versus twice that for other brands. They didn't have much feedback on it at Home Depot but since it was Rustoleum, we thought why not? It looks good and I see NO problems with it so far. I'm sold!

Now that's what I'm talking about! It looks 2000 times better in here now!

Remember the little box step? I told him my vision for the new step and he made it come to life. Even better than I imagined. Yep, that's one of the things I love about him! Isn't it fabulous?

I'm off to take care of some more details in the room now.......

I'm partying at:

Flaunt it Friday
and
Show and Tell Friday
and
It's a HodgePodge Friday
and

The Wizard has a new home

So recently I told you about a hutch top we bought for $9.99 here. We also had an end table we picked up on the side of the road somewhere (that I cannot find a picture of) that we used for this project. My fabulous husband built a base, added the legs and TaDa!

 

It's my new Hutch to hold all of my Wizard of Oz Memorabilia! Well ok, it still doesn't all fit, but more of it fits in this one than the last one!

I had acquired a toddler size pair of ruby slippers somewhere along the line and took those out, added them to a frame I had painted and TaDa, I have a new wall hanging!

I adore those hanging shoes! The only problem I encountered was how to cover up the insides of the shoes. Of course my head jumped to paint and stuck there so I had to call my Mommy who suggested stuffing them, Genius! I added the birdhouse sign above it that says "There's no place like home" to tie in all the birdhouses that I also have in my sun room.

I hung this poster up only to have to move it to another wall so I could fit my other two pictures up. My walls are mostly windows and I'm running out of room!

And since one thing leads to another and I moved my Wizard of Oz stuff out of the entry hall, I had to move a few other things around to dress my entry hall which is still a work in progress.

Yep, a lot of empty frames while working on placement. I'll work on filling them later ;)

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