Ayres Insanity

Some pictures of the casa for your viewing pleasure... Mi casa es su casa... ok, actually it's just mine ;)  The sitting room, or as I like to call it, the visiting teaching room Were we picky about this stair railing? Yes, yes we were The heart of our home, and usually messy This island deserves it's own zip code. Impressive but awful to clean The great room where we spend most of our family time The master bathroom. I hear double sinks save marriages Who wouldn't want a chandelier above the tub? An antique from grandma and one of my favorite pieces The master bedroom would be more of a masterpiece if only I could keep the kids out Oh the love (and hours) I put into these puff quilts for the girls! And every other detail of this girly room, including the sparkly walls... They're SPARKLY! Superhero room, check (Russ & I refinished that dresser, he even hand painted the knobs. Snaz...

  We have been in our home now for 7 months and are feeling pretty settled. I love this house, everything in it was hand picked by Russ and I. We have been painting one room at a time and I have designed every inch to my liking and it is everything I've ever wanted, in fact I never dreamed we'd be able to have a home like this and I feel so blessed.    The weather was quite good in February, and my neighbors were, to put it mildly, anxious to get the fence up, so we were in a pretty big rush to get the yard going before the fence would make getting machinery back there much more difficult, so we got right to work on landscaping... and I have learned that it is not my strong suit. I can work miracles on the interior of a home, but sadly, I do not have a green thumb. We were referred to a fantastic handyman named Grant who we hired out to do the whole project. He poured a concrete patio with a fire pit on one side of the yard, built a retaining wall along t...