Sunday, January 20, 2008

Extreme Makeover: Doll House Edition

Well, we got Cerys a doll house for Christmas and she has just loved it. But there was one problem. The color of the house and the cute little furniture we got for it, did not match. And we can't have that. We bought the house because we liked the size of it, not too monstrous and we liked the open-plan for easy access to all the rooms. But we didn't necessarily like the red and blue paint. It also came with a few pieces of furniture, but as you can see from the first photo we found some nicer, cuter furniture at another store.

So, we took some of the furniture pieces to a local hardware store and they matched the paint for us. Marc got to work and now the house and furniture match and I can sleep better at night. Just kidding.

Before:



See, random colors that don't match AT ALL

During-the-process:


Marc, hard at work yesterday (see the nasty, grey-ness outside? it's been like that for weeks or at least it feels like it, I lost track of the last time I saw the sun.)


After:


CUTE! We think so at least and Cerys loves all the pink!

Yes, Grandpa is taking a bath.

11 comments:

Tee said...

How cute. What a sweet Daddy to do all that painting!

Unknown said...

o how sweet. i need to do a dollhouse overhaul on my daughters too. she was a bit rough with it in her early years adn the front door just came off yesterday. lol

mer@lifeat7000feet said...

Much better! I doubt it would ever have occured to me to paint it to match.

Seriously, how do you live without the sun??

Marc and Charity said...

Mer- well, I eat drink coffee, eat chocolate, and pray the sun comes out every day! :) It's hard, probably the hardest part of living here. From about Nov-Jan it's the worst, and Jan. is the worst month in my opinion. It's gets dark so early. We eat breakfast in the dark and eat dinner in the dark, it's sad.

There are lots of cases of SAD-Seasonal Affective Disorder here...because of lack of sun, many people are depressed. And I can totally understand.

Keetha Broyles said...

Looks to me like not ONLY is Grandpa taking a bath, but he's taking a bath with his CLOTHES on.

PS - - - I found you through BooMama's comment section.

Kelly said...

Hey Charity! I'm glad you found my blog! Did we got to OBU at the same time? Your husband looks really familiar! I was there from 1991-1995.
I'll have to check out your blog! That's neat that you live overseas!!!

The Liberto Family said...

That was sweet of Marc, you are right you can't have differnt colors! Sorry you don't have any sun!

Stephanie Kay said...

What odd colors for a girl's dollhouse. The originals not your new paint job. And such a devoted daddy to do all that painting. = )

December is the worst here about the sun. Joel gets up in the dark and comes home in the dark. At least this year his cubical is near the windows so he sees the sun - unlike last year when it was in the middle of the giagantic room.

Anonymous said...

This is so sweet! What a great Daddy! We live without the sun too due to pollution.

Kelly said...

Charity:
I was a finance business major (started out pre-med for 3 semesters -ha!)
I probably did know Marc then.

Chad & Amy said...

Love the new colors. The house is now in style:)