a sister is...

This sisterhood quote was our little surprise to the upsilon ladies on move in day. This is posted on the wall in the bathroom.

Before and After....

The TV area

Overview of the Room

Sitting Area

Ready for Move In!!

It's deadline time!! The ladies will be moving in tomorrow and just a few finishing touches need to happen, but we are essentially complete with the summer renovations!!

Here is what the basement TV room looks like with the TV cabinet complete and the endtables and lamps in place!

It has been a long summer for a few of us on the board making sure everything would be complete by move-in...and there were quite a few set-backs, but we made it! We sincerely hope the girls will get much use out of this room! Enjoy!!

DIY-er's

The chairs for the octagonal table we put back in the room needed a little refreshing, so we got some coordinating fabric and recovered them.

Check out the bright green fabric--that used to be the covering on the dining room chairs!

We also got the pictures hung--we went through the archives and picked out pictures from Upsilon's history as a chapter. Hopefully this room will be another great place for making memories at Theta!!

Bathroom Finishing Touches!

The towels are hung and a little color was added! Kaitlyn's mom embroidered the towels to give the bathroom a little Theta spirit! We decided to take down the (ugly) towel dispensers and move to hand towels that will be washed on a regular basis to help with sanitation and to be more green. There is also one more surprise in this room for the girls when they move in...we'll show it on the blog after Sunday!

New furniture

Final Summer Clean Up-August 15th at 4:00

We will be meeting at the chapter house this Sunday, August 15th at 4:00 to get the house ready for the lovely upsilon ladies, move in day is approaching quickly. We will be doing some light weeding, moving the bedroom furniture back into place, minor paint jobs, and finish decorating the bathroom and tv room. This is your chance to see all of the improvements before the house officially opens. Please stop by if you have time.

Any questions, call Leah at 612-385-5931 or email leach_99@hotmail.com

Everything is coming together nicely...

The new chairs, there will also be a table in the corner.

The HOM furniture delivery truck. We waited all night for this moment!

Kaitlyn and Ashley taking the TV out of the box while the TV installer watches.


Mounting the TV.

This wall will be filled with pictures of thetas over the years that we found in the archives.

Still a work in progress but at least everything is here and there is an end in sight.

Study Room Pictures

Pictures of various places around campus
Kaitlyn and Leah on a hot hot hot evening in August hanging pictures.

Yes, there is a floor.

Finally! The floor is done, the trim will be put up tomorrow.

The TV stand is being set up in the pictures above.

Bedroom furniture has arrived!

The new beds and desks were delivered last week, here is my daughter, Kaitlyn, checking out the new furniture.

Finally, a floor for the basement!

Whenever we do a remodel project we run into unexpected issues. Our original plan was to stain the concrete in the basement TV room. There was a problem getting the carpet glue off the floor so we had to go to plan B. We didn't want to go back to carpet in that room so we chose an oak laminate flooring. Denise, Leah, and Leah's husband Andy got their workout carrying 42 cases of flooring and underlayment down stairs last night.

More Bedroom Pictures

The living room ceiling ready to be painted.

The two single rooms in the back hallway. No more blue doors.

how Theta alumnae spend their Friday night...

Trying to finish up painting the bedroom trim a couple of Fridays ago, three alumnae (one not even on the FCB!) spent a few hours painting. We made a pretty good dent then finally finished up in the next few days!

Ashley and Kaitlyn finishing up the night!

Ashley, Kaitlyn and Sara having a good time...and maybe a little delirious at this point! Sara is a pledge sister (Gamma Pi chapter at ISU) of Kaitlyn's--thanks to her for helping out!

Ashley and Sara rocking those door trims!

The TV room progress

The TV room has been painted. We are no longer going to be staining, we are currently looking at flooring options for this room. Once we decide what will be done I'll update everyone.

Bedrooms

The hallway full of painting supplies, mattresses, desks, and the old hand towels from the bathroom.

Room #1 after the bunk was removed. The lighting in the picture doesn't show the wall color very well.

Room #2 after the bunk and desks were removed.

Many of the bedrooms are done being painted. Only one room in the main hallway and the three rooms in the back hallway remain. Once the final details are finished we'll start putting the furniture back. Here are pictures to show each of the four colors. The beds in rooms 1,2, and 4 were removed over the weekend. New beds will be delivered to these rooms on Friday. New desks will be going into room 2 (one of the triples)

Bathroom Paint

The bathroom paint is almost complete, only the stall doors and painting the cabinet remain. Notice the old hand towels are missing!

Bathroom

Lindsey taking down the fish border.

The FCB was hoping to be able to remodel the bathroom this year but since we've decided to focus on the bedrooms and basement we will have to wait. In order to freshen up the room we are painting the stalls and walls. The color for the walls will be "Kilim Beige" by Sherwin Williams. The fish border is being taken down and the wire racks for the bath caddies are being replaced.

Bedrooms

As soon as the basement floor and walls are finished the painting int he bedrooms will begin. The walls will be painted "Kilim Beige" from Sherwim Williams. Each room will have one accent wall. The color samples are above.

A few of the board members and alums in the area have been working on prepping the rooms for paint over the past few weeks. The trim around the closets and doors were in bad shape with many different shades of paint splattered on them. In order to clean that up we decided to paint all of the trim white, this will match the new white trim that was put up with the windows.

The prep work is almost complete, the FCB will be at upsilon again on Saturday, July 10th from 8:30-1:00. Please stop by if you have free time and would like to help out.