We're Here For a Year | 3 Months In Home Tour

Phew! We made it to Friday! Is anyone else struggling this week? I tell you what, those three-day weekends hurt more than they help it seems! I feel like I have been playing catch up all.week.long. In fact, you guys almost didn’t get a post today because my week’s scheduled projects just didn’t get done. But then I got the sweetest comment from a reader earlier this week, and it totally motivated me…

…Would you consider doing a whole house tour? I know you feel like things aren’t “done”, but I really would like to see your new house, as it is in progress. It will give a greater appreciation once reveal time comes. I still have trouble envisioning the space as we’ve only seen snippets here and there of projects since the move in tour. No stress, no need to clean up–PLEASE keep it real! But a little photo tour to show where you are in the process basically mirroring your move in tour would be really cool.

I thought this idea was brilliant! While I have been keeping our Kansas Home Tour pictures updated with each new project reveal, I realize I show updates and projects both here and on my contributing sites, so it can be hard to keep up with the most recent changes. Also in an effort to keep images looking clean and pretty, I zoom in a lot so you can’t/don’t see the unfinished spaces all around. But since this past weekend marked exactly three months in this 6th home of ours and I like to keep things real around here, I figured the timing couldn’t be more perfect to show you exactly what we’ve accomplished this far! But I will squeeze my disclaimer in now: I don’t yet consider any of these spaces done. I’m going to show you the pretty spaces as well as some of the unfinished corners, and even give you glimpse into my through process and upcoming projects.

As my sweet reader pointed out, the last time I walked you through the entire house was one week after our moving truck arrived. Let’s pick up there, and I’ll show you exactly what the house looks like today. Admittedly, some of these photos are from previous posts, but most are shots I snapped yesterday specifically for this tour. Let’s get to it!

The last you saw of our upstairs family room, all the boxes were gone and we were completely unpacked (hurray!), but nothing quite had a home.

Family Room Before

Three months in, this is what the space looks like today! We bought a new couch, re-arranged a few times, added curtains, installed a fantastic striped wallpaper feature around the fireplace, bought quite a few plants, and hung some oversized art. The major projects left to finish in this space are to update our “where we’ve lived” prints (I obviously have a frame but no print for Kansas yet, and I want to re-do them all in a different color palette!), figure out a new coffee table/ottoman situation (too much white! #didijustsaythat?), and finally decide on some throw pillow fabrics.

MAKING THE CASE FOR CURTAINS

DIY FLOATING ACRYLIC FRAME

TEMPORARY WALLPAPER FEATURE

Family Room | 3 Months In

Family Room| 3 Months In

Family Room| 3 Months In

Family Room| 3 Months In

Let’s move into the dining room! Here is where we were at after the moving boxes were unpacked!

Dining Room Before

And here we are today. Admittedly, this space is super tricky to photograph because of the windows and all the green, so I don’t think you can get a good sense of what it looks like from these pictures. Which is a shame, because this space is coming together quite nicely. The only new element in this space so far are the flowered drapes…everything else came from the last house, just not all from our last dining room. Remaining projects in this space are to slipcover or re-cover the white parsons chairs (can’t decide on a color! suggestions?) and add a fourth wallpaper art to complete the set around the mirror!

MAKING THE CASE FOR CURTAINS

WALLPAPER ARTWORK

Dining Room| 3 Months In

Dining Room| 3 Months In

Over in the kitchen side of the kitchen/dining combo right after unpacking…

One Week In Kitchen

We’ve added some black barstools (which are from Target and I LOOOOVE them!) and some no-sew roman shades. Honestly, I don’t think much more will get added in this space. While I’d love to add some more color and personality..it is only a year, remember 😉 #famouslastwords

NO-SEW ROMAN SHADES

Kitchen| 3 Months In

Let’s walk down the hall and check the progress in the master bedroom! Here’s one week after move in!

Master Bedroom Before

And here is the bedroom today! The biggest and most dramatic change in here is the new bed! We are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary this November. We have been in quite desperate need of a new mattress for some time, so we decided to upgrade in size and style as an anniversary present to ourselves. The bed is from Joss & Main. It’s navy velvet with silver nailhead trim, and I am just smitten with it! Most of the new pillow covers were sewn up using fabric from my stash, and the grey curtains used to hang in our last bathroom.

Master Bedroom| 3 Months In

Master Bedroom| 3 Months In

Master Bedroom| 3 Months In

Our gorgeous grey French Provincial dresser sits opposite the bed, and we decided to hang the mirror differently this time to take up some more visual space on the larger wall. This is where the beige walls are really, really bugging me – oh how I miss our dark, moody walls in our last bedroom…the dresser used to just pop! I’m not painting this wall nor am I re-painting the dresser, so I may just have to live with this strange monochromatic look for the year. Although I do wonder if some more colorful styling and accessories would help? Thoughts?

Master Bedroom| 3 Months In

One wall/space I do want to tackle though is just next to the windows where our laundry baskets sit. I want to re-cover the laundry baskets and then come up with some fantastic renter-friendly wall treatment there. I’ve got some ideas I’m working through!

Master Bedroom| 3 Months In

The master bathroom looks exactly the same now as it did 12 weeks ago!

Master Bathroom| 3 Months In

Master Bathroom| 3 Months In

Back down the hall, let’s peek at Henry’s room. Here it was after unpacking…

Henry's Bedroom Before

And here is the room as of yesterday! We added the faux built-in and some pom-poms to his bedspread. I also made a fun bulletin board that is now completely covered in all of his school creations!

FAUX BEDROOM BUILT-IT

POM-POM BEDSPREAD

DOTTED BULLETIN BOARD

Henry's Bedroom| 3 Months In

Henry's Bedroom| 3 Months In

This room is one project from being completely done, and it’s right here. This spot opposite his bed is next on the list…can’t wait to get started!

Henry's Bedroom| 3 Months In

Let’s head downstairs! Here is our front entryway/landing one week after moving in!

Entryway Before

And here is the mini command center we added to serve as a family drop zone. This is easily one of the best things we’ve done in this house as far as function goes! Total paperwork lifesaver!

COMMAND CENTER REDUX

Entryway| 3 Months In

Entryway| 3 Months In

Down at the bottom of the stairs is our second family room/playroom. This was one of the first spaces we got up and running…here’s the last you saw it!

Playroom Before

I featured a whole bunch of our playroom organization solutions over at I Heart Organizing a few weeks back (read the full feature HERE!). In a quick nutshell, we added feet to the IKEA Kallax shelves to raise them off the ground and re-made new/refined basket labels. We also added a gallery wall on the one long wall, and setup an art table behind the couch. Left to do in here: window treatments (this weekend!!!), a wall feature behind the televisions, and some new pillows!

PLAYROOM STORAGE SOLUTIONS

RENTER-FRIENDLY HANGING SOLUTIONS

Playroom| 3 Months In

Playroom| 3 Months In

Playroom| 3 Months In

Playroom| 3 Months In

Right off the playroom is my home office/craft room/studio. Just until a few weeks ago, the room pretty much looked exactly as you saw it last…

Craft Room Before

But then I added a fantastic wallpaper treatment, swapped out the black counter for a white one, and updated the cornice box from our last house. You guys, I love this room so so so much!

RENTER-FRIENDLY WALLPAPER INSTALLATION

Craft Room| 3 Months In

Craft Room| 3 Months In

Craft Room| 3 Months In

As much as I love those two walls SO MUCH, the other two walls in the room still need some…ahem…love and attention. Considering I spend a majority of my week sitting at my desk, you’d think it would look a little better than it does….

Craft Room| 3 Months In

Ouch. And yea…there is this too…the pink towers. It was a total whim (remember, my motto is to “just try it!” and just try it I did!), and now I need to fix it. I’m just not sure what I want yet so it stays pink for now. Yikes…

Craft Room| 3 Months In

The last room on the tour is our laundry room. This is what the room looked like before our truck even arrived. Then it spiraled into a complete disaster as the landing zone for anything I didn’t have a spot for. I didn’t get pictures of the crazy in-between phase…

Laundry Room Before

But now the room looks like this! I’m not quite ready to show you the whole space (next week I think!), so consider this your sneak peek. I actually had no intentions of doing anything to our laundry room, but when inspiration strikes, you just go with it. I think this might be the cutest laundry room I’ve ever seen!

ROLLING LAUNDRY CART

Laundry Room| 3 Months In

Laundry Room| 3 Months In

Laundry Room| 3 Months In

I’m actually going to stop the tour there and not include any outside spaces today! The garage is SO bad right now friends, I can’t even bring myself to photograph it let alone show it to you guys. We are mid project, garage-sale prep, AND still figuring out the right storage and it is a total disaster. And the deck. Well, that’s been given quite the end-of-season makeover and I’m super excited to give you a proper reveal, so I’m going to hold out on that one too!

So there we are! 3 months in to our 12 months in this house. I’m incredibly pleased with what we’ve done so far. Admittedly, we’ve settled into that stage where nothing seems urgent. We’re settled in and the house feels decorated enough…we’ve gotten caught up with daily life, and some projects have been put off and put off. Seeing the house as a whole and articulating my hopes and plans for each space here today has been really motivating to me. I don’t want to be working on this house until the very end like I was with the last one, so it’s time to get into action and move forward with some of the projects I have in mind!

I hope to check in like this at the 6 and 9 month marks before doing a final home tour before we move next Spring. Of course, there will be lots of little reveals along the way, but I think it’s fun to see how much can be accomplished in a certain period of time. I hope you found this fun and inspiring for your own home, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on what I’ve done, my ideas moving forward, and some things you’d love to see me try! And thank you so much to Heather who suggested this great post idea – xoxo!

Happy Weekend, friends! See you back here Monday!

See You Soon!
Megan