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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Sunday
Mar302014

Before & after (finally)

Okay. I know these are late. Here are our before and after pictures from our bedroom project. (Sorry it took so long...technical difficulties as I'm trying to learn a new photo system and such...which I still haven't figured out; thus there's no formatting or anything fancy here, lol.)

 

One of our favorite things about our new room is this reading area and fabulous orange chair. :) The ottoman serves as a little bench when it's not being used as an ottoman. We think the orange goes quite nicely with the frosted jade paint on the walls. (I love that the color looks different depending on the light and time of day...varying from more green to more blue.)

We moved that dresser and are trying to find a new home for the tv. We're planning to get a flat screen tv to put atop that new corner unit, but are in no hurry. (Incidentally, in case you were wondering, between this dresser and the one in the first picture, we only actually were using two of the drawers. We rearranged things in the closet to accommodate that stuff so don't need any drawers in the bedroom.) (If I get really ambitious, I may actually take the drapes down and iron them one day. Probably not, though, lol.)

Here's a picture looking in from the doorway. Don't you love the new light fixture and floors and curtains and all?! The flooring is bamboo and, so far, is lovely.

And here's the view from the attached bathroom. Micah says our bedroom looks "royal" and I'm inclined to agree. :) The bed is a metal frame and a long story, but we love it. (The throw pillows are currently living mostly on the corner unit, btw. They're also nice on the orange chair.)

That teal-ish drape in the forefront is in the bathroom...more on that in a minute... ;)

Reader Comments (2)

Lovely!

March 31, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterNan

Wow the new room looks amazing!

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMelinda

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