Ding dong the bamboo’s done. (And the lighting and the paint.)



6 months.
1 trip to Ikea.
17 breakdowns.
842 sq. feet of cootie free bamboo flooring.
At least 20 gallons of paint.
My furniture isn’t pretty enough to live here.
Heck, I’m barely pretty enough to live here.
Comments off.
By pgoodness on 12.17.09 11:51 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @pgoodness
GORGEOUS!! Congrats! (and those lights??)
By Magda on 12.17.09 11:52 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @themaggers
It’s beautiful and it’s all yours!
By Jen on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @jayesel
holy crap it’s GORGEOUS. Those floors are fantastic. I wanna come VISIT.
By TUWABVB on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @TUWABVB
So happy for you guys! I love the floors – we’re shopping for hardwoods now and that color is amazing!
By Katie on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @katiekillian
Beautiful! IKEA FTW!!!
By Just Shireen on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @JustShireen
Pretties!
By Jen L. on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @jennelsonlane
Squeeeee! I LOVE your light fixture!!!! Also that post? Would kill me. I would run into it on a daily basis. I iz clumsee.
It looks so beautiful, Casey! Gosh, I know you’re happy.
Jen L. Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@Jen L., It’s not a post, it’s a column. So sorry. Am clumsee AND don’t know arkitekchure turms.
By VDog on 12.17.09 11:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @VDog
EFF YES!!!! Loves it!
By Em on 12.17.09 11:55 pm | Permalink
OOOOO ahhhh. Gorgeous.
By JaeJay on 12.17.09 11:59 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @jaejay
It looks wonderful! I love bamboo flooring. Enjoy your cootie free house!
By Claire on 12.18.09 12:01 am | Permalink
Twitter: @clairelc6
that’s such a pretty color for bamboo! it has a great zen feel to it! Have fun breaking the new floors in!
By kelly on 12.18.09 12:09 am | Permalink
Twitter: @kelisha
It certainly is a thing of great beauty!! You are, indeed, a woman of excellent taste.
Well done =)
By April G. on 12.18.09 12:11 am | Permalink
Holy cow! That looks amazing! I love your light fixture.
By Miss Grace on 12.18.09 12:14 am | Permalink
Twitter: @grace134
OOH chandelier pretty pretty
By Olivia on 12.18.09 12:18 am | Permalink
Are sock sliding contests allowed on your new floors? If so, we are so having one on Monday!
Nanette Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am
@Olivia, That’s exactly what I was going to say! (Except the Monday part.) I just wanna slide around them there floors in my socks!
By erin on 12.18.09 12:30 am | Permalink
Gorgeous!!!!!
By Joanna on 12.18.09 12:36 am | Permalink
Oooo, pretty!
Congrats! You guys deserve this!
By Abby on 12.18.09 12:57 am | Permalink
Twitter: @sweetbabboo
Gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous. I’m totally jealous of your brand spanking new look.
And of course you are pretty enough to live there.
-Abby
By Kimmie on 12.18.09 1:00 am | Permalink
Twitter: @kimsueellen
Damn gina…do what I did, cry and beg and plead that your couch was too ugly…then get a new one like I did. (although we did have that downeast store.) LOVE your house, can’t wait to stay there.
By Overflowing Brain (Katie) on 12.18.09 1:11 am | Permalink
Twitter: @overflowinbrain
GORGEOUS.
Also? You have more square footage of bamboo than I do in my whole apartment.
Overflowing Brain (Katie) Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 1:12 am
@Overflowing Brain (Katie), And by that I clearly meant you have more bamboo than I have square feet of anything total. I don’t have any bamboo in my apartment. We have carpet that the cat has eaten most of the corners of because he’s “special.”
By Emily on 12.18.09 1:20 am | Permalink
Twitter: @franksbeans
I love love love it!! great choices all around!
By rachel-asouthernfairytale on 12.18.09 1:31 am | Permalink
Twitter: @sthrnfairytale
Casey, it’s gorgeous.
I’m so happy for you, honey.
Now, tell me how on earht you took that pic of addie blowing out the candles on the cake. It is amazing.
By Skye on 12.18.09 1:40 am | Permalink
It’s beautiful! I LURVE IT!
By Krista on 12.18.09 1:58 am | Permalink
Twitter: @marriedlife
Wow, stunning! Can you come work some of that magic on the house we just bought??? Yes, seriously, we have papers mostly all signed, now we’re just waiting on technicalities… I can’t believe it!
By Bridget on 12.18.09 2:19 am | Permalink
Twitter: @iveyleaguemama
So, so beautiful! Looks like there’s plenty of room in that kitchen for me to come show you how to *really* cook great corn-on-the-cob. (I will forever believe that my way is better until proven otherwise.)
By Hillary (aka Mrs. Einstein) on 12.18.09 3:13 am | Permalink
I am so drooling over your bamboo right now!
By ClassyFabSarah on 12.18.09 6:27 am | Permalink
Twitter: @ClassyFabSarah
Ho-ly COW!! Amazing.
You know what my favorite thing about new flooring is?
Being made to take off my shoes at the front door. Seriously, I love that.
By Durga on 12.18.09 7:33 am | Permalink
Twitter: @durgaO
BEAUTIFUL FLOORSSSSSSSSS I COULD EAT OFF THEM!!!!!!! OMGOOOSH SOOOOO SOOOOOO GORGEOUS!!! I LOVE TYPING IN CAPS TOO! XOXOOOO
By Melanie on 12.18.09 8:51 am | Permalink
LOVE!
By Marie Green on 12.18.09 9:14 am | Permalink
Twitter: @lifeinatinytown
Wow, awesome! I love how it turned out. Love the light fixtures. LOVE! Don’t worry, IKEA will be there for you to pick up some prettier furniture over the next months/years!
Continue to enjoy your fab new place!!!!
By DesignHER Momma on 12.18.09 9:44 am | Permalink
Twitter: @designhermomma
loooooooooooove it. Well done my friend.
(when does the money truck deliver the bags of cash for us to go shopping and accessorize?)
I’m salivating to pimp this pad out proper…
By Jenny on 12.18.09 9:57 am | Permalink
It looks fabulous! Furniture is one of the first things we purchased when we were finished with school. New couches, entertainment stands and TV’s. Now I want a new kitchen table mine is OLD!
By Angela on 12.18.09 10:11 am | Permalink
Great work and congrats on getting that part done. Its fabulous!
By Erika on 12.18.09 10:23 am | Permalink
Twitter: @erikareyes
It’s amazing Casey! I’m lusting after your bamboo floors! GORGEOUS!!!!
By kris on 12.18.09 10:37 am | Permalink
Twitter: @onecuteblog
I am in love with your floor… holy cow… so gorgeous!!!
By OHmommy on 12.18.09 10:42 am | Permalink
Twitter: @ohmommy
Oh, Casey…. it’s gorgeous!
By Kate on 12.18.09 10:52 am | Permalink
What a great holiday gift! Your home is amazing.
By lceel on 12.18.09 10:56 am | Permalink
Twitter: @lceel
What a nice place. Well done, Casey.
By Bianca on 12.18.09 11:04 am | Permalink
Twitter: @biasia
Very classy and beautiful! I can’t wait to see more.
By Josie on 12.18.09 11:10 am | Permalink
Twitter: @duckyponder
AH. MAH. GAH.
Gorgeous. LOVE IT!
By Mommy Daisy on 12.18.09 11:17 am | Permalink
Twitter: @mommydaisy
Wow! I love it. That dark color flooring looks amazing!
By Shannon on 12.18.09 11:21 am | Permalink
Twitter: @ShannonWN
OMG the floor is so dark and sexy! For some reason Bamboo to me was always pale. I am so doing this in my new house in England. That is, when I sell this house in SC, Find a house in Gloucestershire, move over…. Ok I just freaked myself out!
By Engineer Bob on 12.18.09 11:21 am | Permalink
Wow, the transformation is amazing! It really looks great. Congrats and enjoy your great looking house and cootie freeness Casey.
By Kristabella on 12.18.09 11:27 am | Permalink
Twitter: @kristabella
So pretty! When can I come over!
So happy for you!
By Dani on 12.18.09 11:32 am | Permalink
Twitter: @laughstooeasily
I think this may be the first time my boss at the architecture office I work in has walked by my computer while my Google Reader was open and given an approving look.
The house look fabulous.
By Azucar on 12.18.09 11:43 am | Permalink
Twitter: @jet_set
It looks so clean and fresh. Yummy.
By mommabird2345 on 12.18.09 12:22 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @mommabird2345
OOOHHH, the house looks GREAT!! Can’t wait to see more pictures.
By Jenny on 12.18.09 12:25 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @ncjennyrose
Thank you for helping me choose colors/flooring/lighting for my new house – this looks amazing!
By AmazingGreis on 12.18.09 12:28 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @AmazingGreis
Wow, that looks AMAZING!!! So, so pretty and you are definitely pretty enough to live there!!! Yaye for your own house that’s finished!!! XOXOX
By Candace on 12.18.09 1:00 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @jondace
HOLY WOW!!!! It’s beautiful! I’m so happy for you guys. You deserve this, BIG time! ENJOY!
By SciFi Dad on 12.18.09 1:11 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @_SciFiDad_
That turned out really well.
By Maureen on 12.18.09 1:43 pm | Permalink
Wow, it’s beautiful!
By Jenn Bo on 12.18.09 1:56 pm | Permalink
Congratulations on your new space. The colors look beautiful. (Also, the blowin-out-the-candles photo in the sidebar is rad; the wispy burnout from the flame and your daughters facial expression make a great photo.)
By Jolene on 12.18.09 2:05 pm | Permalink
Congrats! Looks AMAZING! My husband and I have built two houses, and every time I’m like, we can NOT move our old stuff in here, but every time we do…
By Val G. on 12.18.09 2:40 pm | Permalink
Oh my goodness! What a difference. It doens’t even look like the smae house. The paint color is perfect. I am lusting after your floors. They are so beautiful. And that chandalier is so much fun.
By Angie B. on 12.18.09 2:52 pm | Permalink
Oh Wow! So pretty! Happy holidays in your new home! (Thinking about how I can ask my husband for a new house for Christmas next year?)
By Mom in Vernal on 12.18.09 3:05 pm | Permalink
That is amazing. I love it. Can’t wait to see it. I know you would do a great job.
By Mom in Vernal on 12.18.09 3:07 pm | Permalink
That is amazing. I love it. Can’t wait to see it in person.
By Barb @ getupandplay on 12.18.09 3:28 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @getupandplay
Ooh, pretty!! (Only one trip to IKEA? That’s a freakin’ miracle!)
By Mei on 12.18.09 3:56 pm | Permalink
JEALOUS!!!
By Jess on 12.18.09 4:21 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @dudeandsweetie
Ooooohhhh. So pretty. Love love love the floors. Love.
We’re in a rental with icky carpet, and I miss pretty floors. *sigh*
I’m gonna enlarge your photos and cut them up and lay them on my floors. So I can pretend.
By Kathy Baker on 12.18.09 5:22 pm | Permalink
I have an interior design site and I am interested in purchasing a link on your website. Your site looks great and I would love to be part of your blogroll. Or, if you prefer we could exchange links.
If this is possible, could you let me know how much you would charge for a basic text link. My site is located at http://www.genuinestyle.net.
Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing back from you.
By Ami on 12.18.09 5:28 pm | Permalink
You are completely pretty enough to live in your new house. Absolutely no question there. The real question is when are you going to do a Tom Cruise impersonation sliding across that beautiful floor??
(You do realize that your entire downstairs is bigger than the place where you used to live? What was it’s name again? Manslaughter? Something like that right? Hee hee hee, I’m so happy for you I think I may just giggle for a while.)
By Avitable on 12.18.09 5:40 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @Avitable
Holeee ****. That looks amazing!
By ToKissTheCook on 12.18.09 6:49 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @tokissthecook
Looking GORGEOUS Casey!!! I love the color you chose for the kitchen!!
By Rebecca (Ramblings by Reba) on 12.18.09 9:02 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @ramblingreba
SQUEEE! Yay!
By Angie on 12.18.09 9:26 pm | Permalink
Just plain WOW! I have been anxious to see how it turned out. I disagree with you, however. This gorgeous house is totally you…absolutely gorgeous. So happy for you. And just like that first post, I can only imagine how the tree will look in YOUR home! Merry Christmas, darlin’!
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By Adventures In Babywearing on 12.19.09 10:54 am | Permalink
Twitter: @babysteph
Wow. it looks incredible!!
Steph
By The Bossy Yankee on 12.19.09 8:19 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @thebossyyankee
Gorgeous Casey!
By Elizabeth Kaylene on 12.21.09 2:30 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @elizawhat
I can almost smell that new paint, new everything scent! I’m so happy for you. Enjoy!
By Natalie on 12.23.09 3:54 pm | Permalink
Twitter: @mommyonfire
Love your blog and love this post! New to the blog world and found your site – I’m from Indy and love it! House is awesome – enjoy many happy memories within those walls.
By Karen on 12.23.09 11:22 pm | Permalink
Wow! you have done an excellent job in pennies! love it!