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This room started out stinky, and quickly morphed to messy… We stained the floor that dark brown color after we ripped out the carpet, but we did a bad job, and craved a lighter look, so we sanded it back again and just used clear Varathane to seal them the second time around… Around that […]
We’re photographing Kev’s new office/our guest bedroom today, but in the meantime, I wanted to share a quick post about the ceiling light we went with. It’s the Benjamin Sky Chief from Barn Light Electric… We went with a jadite colored, enamel-coated metal shade, a 3-inch brushed aluminum stem, and we added the brushed aluminum […]
We’re workin’ away on Kev’s office/our guest bedroom this week, but I thought I’d share a quick post about the window treatments we’re using in the room. We bought some blinds (on sale at Home Depot) several months ago and we were finally able to install them this past weekend… We dug out an old […]
Well, we managed to check everything off our to-do list the other day… After that, we moved onto the closet doors, and then painted and waxed our bedside tables: We painted the closet doors “Orchard” by Para Paints. They don’t sell it in the U.S., but a sweet gal named Ashley was kind enough to mail […]
While Kev and I have been up to our eyeballs in Christmas articles (HGTV.com likes ’em early), Brian the Carpenter has been hard a work on the closets, crown, and base boards in Kev’s office/our guest bedroom… It’s been so fun to see everything come together, and witnessing teachable moments between he and his son […]
Remember when I did that presto change-o for Kevin’s brother, Kerry, a while back? The one where I mentioned, that he mentioned, that he wanted his living room to look more like this: Well, I’ve been blogging about what we’re doing over here at our house a lot lately, but what I haven’t blogged about […]
Brian finished the closet baseboards (they match our existing baseboards, yay!) and the trim around the doors and cubby holes yesterday… He brought the cutest little helper with him too… He was a little less camera shy than his Dad, so I went all paparazzi on him for a minute. He just giggled alot…. …and blew […]
Saturday, May 26th. 3:30pm– Install the first wood plank on top of our existing textured ceiling: (There’s actually wood up above our ceilings in this part of the house, so it made for easy nail gunning. If you’re interested in doing something similar, but don’t have wood above your sheetrock, just find your ceiling joists, […]
Our camera shy carpenter had to finish up a job at another house yesterday and today, but he did start cladding our closets before he left on Wednesday afternoon. So exciting! I’m probably driving him nuts at this point, but I’m just so fascinated by this whole process! Next week, he plans to finish up the […]
Since this here blog acts as our virtual scrapbook, and I’m beyooooond excited about the closet project we’ve got going on at our house right now, I wanted to include a picture of our amaaaaazing new carpenter friend, Brian, in today’s post…. See him ducking down there in the right hand corner of the photo above? Turns […]
Remember when I surprised Kev with a freshly painted home office/guest room? Well, since that day, I found a local carpenter named Brian to help us build some closets at the far end of the room, sort of like these… Our closets won’t be as wide as the ones in the inspiration photo, (we only […]
Have you e-met Lindsay from Life of Splendor? She and her husband, Chris, bought a fixer upper a couple of years ago and I’m so excited to share their recent bathroom redo photos here today. Here’s what the room looked like when they moved in… …and here’s what it looks like now! Before… After! Before… […]
Kev went out of town last week, so I decided to have a little “surprise by design” style home improvement fun in his future home office/studio space. The day he left, I bought sample pots of paint… …and stared at swatches on the wall… I went with the second sample from the right- a Sherwin […]
Things are gettin’ wild over here. Furniture and belongings are crammed into rooms they don’t normally live in. Dust and extensions cords cover almost every surface in the entire house. The only room that’s even semi-clean is our master bedroom. Semi, because we’re currently using all 225 square feet of it as our bedroom, office […]
When Kev and I bought this place back in October of 2007, we had to tackle a couple of projects just to get the place livable before we could actually move in. First project- the floors. The carpet in the living room, hallway, reading room, office and guest bedroom was buckling up in several places […]
