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It’s Springtime in Seattle!  Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and the sun is streaming through our windows as I type.  It feels so good to be in a home full of daylight…until that daylight starts illuminating dust on the floors and scuffs on the walls and crusty char on the stovetop.  And so it’s been home improvement month at Chez Schnell (insert sympathetic sigh for Shane here).  I’m cleaning with a vengeance, scrubbing the oven and repainting walls and generally sprucing things up in this little abode of ours.

Our downstairs white walls received a fresh coat of paint (next time Shane suggests we hire someone for all those hard-to-reach places, I think I might cave…).

The air plant that Mitch and Kathryn gave me for Christmas found a home in our dining room, along with a couple of new friends:

The white pot that’s been sitting empty on our table for the last two years was finally filled with a fresh green succulent:

Our bookshelves have been “West Elmed”…

Our bathroom received new art on the walls and a fresh zig-zaggy bathmat:

And our front yard was just planted with a row of newly blooming flowers in cheery shades of purple.

And with all that, project spruce-up is nearly complete – we’ve still got windows to wash and dust bunnies to evict from under our bed, but things are shaping up around here*.  Shane has been dreaming about this little lake-view plot of land for sale in Mount Baker, but I don’t know – I think we’ve got a good thing goin’ on in this place…

*This post was sponsored in part by our good friends at West Elm.  Ok, not really, but they owe me one, right?

This entry was posted by kellyschnell on April 14, 2012 at 3:37 pm under nesting. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Nance says:

    Wow, things are getting all spruced up! Nice work!
    No mention of the grout??

    PS – I do not like that pic of Shane dangling over the stairs AT ALL

    April 15, 2012, 1:03 pm

  2. kellyschnell says:

    Thanks, Nance! And you’re right – fixing the shower grout was one of my most satisfying feats!

    Worst part about Shane dangling over the stairs was that once we saw our paint job in the light of day, it looked kinda terrible (painting white over white is harder than it sounds…). I had to go over it all a second time yesterday (and you should have seen my gymnastics!).

    April 15, 2012, 10:49 pm