Weekend Warriors!

So this weekend, JM and I sacrificed our weekend to getting work finished around the house. Not so fun, but it was very needed! We moved into our new apartment at the beginning of July, right when I was in the middle of studying for the bar, so needless to say, the essentials were taken care of, but none of the decorating was really finished.

So on Friday night I cleaned our master bathroom while JM painted the majority of the master bedroom. On Saturday, after sleeping in and trip to Home Depot, we finished the master bedroom and then worked on the bookshelf from freecycle.org. It is an old piece so we gave it a makeover to fit in with the rest of our decor.

Before picture...we had actually taken off a piece of decorative trim on the top

Here, JM is straightening out the curves for the piece to have more modern lines

Lots and lots of paint

The finished product (sorry it's not decorated...I'm not even sure it's dry)

Btw, we did decide to take the windback recliner we found on freecycle as well. It has not been such a great find as the donor forgot to mention that she is a smoker! So after a half of a bottle of extra-strength Freebreeze, it smells a little better, but as you can see from the pictures, this chair will HAVE to be reupholdstered.

On Sunday, the morning was utter chaos. Little did we know that our alarm clock was messed up so while we had slept in too late, we also did not know why we were so terribly late to church. As it turns out, we thought our clock was 10-15 minutes fast, when in reality it was 8 minutes slow...guess that explains it. Sunday afternoon we spent cleaning up our projects and hanging curtains in our bedroom (which turned out to take a great deal of time due to the metal studs that encase our window and wall).

Finally, Sunday night, in need of a break, JM and I decided to head down to National Harbor.

We ate seafood on the Potomac River and had a great time enjoying the pleasant and very mild weather. Now, if we can just get to the guest bedroom!