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Young House Love » Monthly Roundups » March Superlatives

| By Sherry Petersik | March 31, 2011 | 7 Comments

March Superlatives

Note: This is a retroactive post that I cobbled together in December of 2011 so I could make this page full of monthly recaps for the entire year (our first in our new house!). Yup, I’m just a bit type A. So here’s what we tackled throughout the month of March – high school yearbook style.

Most Archeological: Digging around in the dirt next to our driveway to find all sorts of things (and eventually cleaning things up after the treasure hunt ended).

Guests Sideyard Numbered

Most Likely To Result In A Crack Joke: Hanging a ceiling medallion in Clara’s room (to solve a cracked drywall situation).

Medallion Before

Most Times Square-esque: Our new chandelier from Ikea, which we hung right over our bed (while screaming Happy New Year!).

Max After Close Up

Most Likely To Result In “The Sprinkler”: Disco dancing in the kitchen, thanks to our new light.

New Lamp 2

Most Likely To Leave A Mark: Planning out our frame arrangement over the sofa, only to realize that we needed more frames (thereby resulting in extra wall holes).

Ribbas From Up High

Most Likely To Involve An Australian Outback Voice: This post about rug hunting for our bedroom.

Bedrug Pottery Barn1

Most Likely To Go Topless: Our four poster bed, after we removed the top slats to allow us to raise the chandelier and make way for our new rug. You know we love to tweak…

Bedroom Rug Bench

Most Stodgy: Us, in this Stodgy Is Sexy mini-documentary that they came to our house to film.

Most Colorful: Making five dolla art with colored paper from Michael’s.

ColorRibbas Horizon Straigh

Most Violent: Knocking out an odd off-centered towel bar that taunted me in the bathroom.

Bathroom Trim 3

Most Predictable: Hanging yet another round mirror – this time over a desk in the living room.

Mirror Bottom Detail

Most Tyra-esque: Hosting a finial fashion show to see which ones looked the best on top of our four-poster bed (“four beautiful finials stand in front of me, but I only have one photo in my hand”).

Finials Into Sticky2

Most Anal: Using paper templates to help with the placement of our frame wall before swinging the hammer.

Hallway Frame Wall2

Most Shocking: Finding our mugs on the cover of the Washington Post’s Local Living Section (and announcing our book deal!).

WPost Cover Small

Most Plush: Our extra thick shag rug for the living room.

Rug Detail Shot

Most Holes Made In A Single Wall. Ever. Adding a giant frame collage to our hallway with lots of anchors, screws, and nails.

FrameWall John Working

Most Charitable: John’s parents, for handing down an old dresser for our bedroom when they were downsizing.

Dresser New Close Leg

Most Sentimental: A little 29th-birthday breakdown, involving turtles, sushi, and bees.

Bday Sushi1

Most Tragic: This impossibly heartbreaking scenario. Still can’t talk about it without doing the ugly cry.

Broke Dog Full

Most Likely To Make You Say “Time Flies”: Sharing our progress after three months in our new house.

Hallway Progress 1

Most Cheerful: Switching out the old brass knobs on our dining room built-ins for fun greeny-yellow knobs that make us smile.

Din Knobs Wide2

Most Packed Car: Somehow stacking eight $25 craigslist chairs (with a pretty crazy hotel pattern) in a borrowed SUV to get them home for our dining room.

DChairs John With Truck

Best Tan: Sprucing up Karl’s pale birch-colored legs with some oil-rubbed-bronze spray paint.

Legs Sprayed

Most Likely To Result In A Blister: Limbing up a magnolia tree for more light (and so you can actually see our house from the curb).

Magno Clippings

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Comments

  1. Avatar for EliseElise says

    January 12, 2012 at 1:41 am

    I just had to comment so that I could be the first one to comment on one of your posts. It’ll probably never happen again!

    Reply
    • Avatar for YoungHouseLoveYoungHouseLove says

      January 12, 2012 at 8:17 am

      Haha- too funny!

      xo,
      s

  2. Avatar for LauraLaura says

    July 16, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    I adore the eight frames above the sofa! What a clean, modern look. I want to do something similar in my new living room. Were those frames from IKEA? And do you have any tips on how to space them properly? You all did a wonderful job!

    Reply
    • Avatar for YoungHouseLoveYoungHouseLove says

      July 16, 2012 at 3:19 pm

      Yes, they’re from Ikea! As for hanging them I’d use paper templates and tape them up on the wall to end up with spacing you like!

      xo,
      s

  3. Avatar for TonyTony says

    November 26, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    Those yellow nobs on the dining room built-ins look like yellow googlie eyes. Love them.

    Reply
    • Avatar for YoungHouseLoveYoungHouseLove says

      November 26, 2012 at 4:55 pm

      Haha, they’re lookin’ at you, kid.

      xo
      s

  4. Avatar for LaurenLauren says

    March 4, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    I had to leave a comment and say thank you for these round-up posts you did! I’ve been following for a few months, but it is very nice to look back when you got this house and see how things have developed! So from a reader who found you late- these are awesome for those of us who click on archives and then get overwhelmed with options! Thank you!

    Reply

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