Weekend Report: Home Improvements

This weekend was spent doing home improvements. Yay. Well... it will be yay. It's currently at the slightly annoying phase but you get that right? 

We finally had the plaster repaired in M's room this past week and this weekend it was finally dry enough to prime. So  we did that. Tomorrow we will be able to start painting. We never did anything to her room before her arrival. We left it the same yellow color it already was and just bought some grey crib sheets and whatever. 

Not quite as bad as this but the poor kid needed some updates. The color I've had picked out for a long time now is Benjamin Moore's Lily Lavender. 

I am excited. With this big room makeover we are going to get her a big girl bed too. As soon as I find one I like. But the bedding? Well I can find bedding I like for days. 

This Minnie Mouse quilt and sheets from Ethan Allen? Swoon swoon swoon. Those little indents in the quilt are little tiny tasteful Minnies. Seriously I love it so much. It may be hard to top it! 

Pottery Barn kids also has some adorable options. But first... find a bed. Which has been surprisingly more difficult than I imagined. 

We also started stripping our banister and baluster. The previous homeowners slapped a coat of the cheapest white paint on them and it was dirty and gummy and gross. Plus the kids had chipped some pieces off. Underneath the white was a lovely olive green. Yuck! 

But tell me your thoughts on what I am told is a very on trend design of white spindles and natural wood toned banisters? The thing is our baluster is the cool and ornate piece. Maybe original to our 97 year old house, maybe? I don't really know but it's very pretty. And the wood grain is beautiful, which we just found out yesterday. 

But do you like the wood baluster and banister look? 

Our baluster looks the most like this one.

Or do you like the wood banister and white baluster look better? 

Or should we just paint it all white again which was the original plan before I found out the wood was pretty and that this two toned step thing is in fact a thing? 

Otherwise the weekend was pretty unremarkable. My Vikings and their poor backup quarterback were trounced...but the Packers lost too so I can handle it.