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My French Door Table
When I started this craft room process, I wanted a table coming out into the center of the room. A lot like a kitchen island. I wanted to be able to use my sewing machine and have room to pull fabric through, kid’s school projects that seem to always use poster board, and just have a space where more than one person could be sitting comfortably doing a project together. We looked into doing cabinets that resembled a kitchen island, or buying a table to go in the center. Both were pretty expensive, and kind of generic to me. We came up with the idea to use a French door…
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Painting cabinets
My room is taking shape and I am excited to get cabinets put in. We painted a valspar paint on the walls called butter. Yellow is hard to pick, and this is the perfect shade of yellow for me. Not to bright, but still very happy. I always paint my walls with an eggshell finish, and my trim with a satin finish. We decided to go with the unfinished stock cabinets for this room. I thought to myself, I will just paint them quickly and get them installed…no problem. They are trickier than they look. I have painted so many finished cabinets in my day, and these are a little…
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DIY wall texturing
We tore down the basement wall, and it left a big mess we had to fix. We have had people come and texture our walls in the past, but we haven’t been satisfied with their work. My husband and I decided to do it ourselves this time. Jeff has always done the walls on his own. Fairly simple. He put up new drywall, mud, and used the orange peel texture spray found at Home Depot. The ceiling was another matter entirely. We had a funky texture on the ceiling that couldn’t be matched with the texture rollers, so we got some mud, and paint scraper, and went to work. It…
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A little bit of demo
There has been a little bit of demo going on around here. I didn’t like the floor plan in our basement. It felt like it was just a maze of rooms. We did not need one of the rooms by the stairs, so we decided to tear out the wall and make it one open space. We didn’t need a family room right there, we have a theater room in the basement already, so we decided that a great craft space would be awesome for our family. Here is the floor plan and what it looked like before we took out the wall. It was a small room and the…
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Nothing says welcome like color
I love colorful front doors. My friend and I are on a movement to start a colorful front door trend in our neighborhood. I think that nothing says welcome like the color of your front door. I had recently visited Paris and was inspired by the doors that looked like this. I loved how all their buildings were mostly cream, and they used the color of their door to express their personality. Beautiful. I came home and decided to paint my front door a bright turquoise. It is important when choosing a paint color for your door, to make sure it compliments the brick or siding color of you house.…
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Taking it outside
It has been a while since I have posted. It is not because I haven’t been busily working away in my home, but because I have been busily working away outside my home. I have been working as an aid at a school this past school year. I can’t believe how much time I don’t have to do things like blog when I am working. I have missed blogging. I use this blog as a journal of sorts, and I enjoy recording my decorating experiences, and looking back on them. That being said, I am excited for the Summer! Time! We have been working hard in our yard these past…
