Furniture
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Tile
We’ve been working on the back splash and shower tile this past weekend and I couldn’t be more excited about how it is turning out. I am going pretty classic by using white subway tile on the shower, and accenting it with three stripes of fabulous gray concrete accent tile we found. I also found a smaller subway tile for the backslash over the sink. I also spent the first day of school (for my kids) painting my vanity. I chose a charcoal gray color to help ground the room. Painting cabinets and furniture is my favorite thing to do since it is such a fun fast update to any…
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Progress
We are slowly but steadily making progress. This week was the start of school for all of us, and things just got a little crazy. The floor is finally tiled and I love it! I wanted my bathroom to have a vintage feel to it so I decided to go with small black and white hex tiles. Lights are in! I found these school house fixtures on a trip we took to Boise this summer, and I knew I had to have them for my bathroom. I also added some to my closet. This will hang off of a beam we made for the center of the room. I have…
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It’s gray and I love it!
Yay my walls are painted and I love the color! It is a soft gray tone with a touch of blue in it. I spent the day last week painting my wainscoting white, and I love the contrast of the two colors. I love trim, and I love it painted white. Just plain, clean white. The white I always use is ultra white from Behr right off the shelf, in a satin finish. I find for myself that if the white is more of an off white, it tends to look dirty to me. We picked two medicine cabinets in an oil rubbed finish for above our sinks. I am…
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Adding some character
We are making progress! We took out the tub and installed wainscoting on the wall. Instead of having a jetted tub, we decided to go with a free standing claw foot tub. I love adding touches like wainscoting to a room. It makes the home feel like it has some extra character and history. I also painted some color samples on the wall. The color I am going with is the lighter gray blue. Silver sage from Restoration Hardware. I think it is going to pop against the white color underneath. I always get samples of the colors I want to paint and paint some on the wall. I live…
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New master bath project
I am so so excited. I am moving on to the next project! We have officially started our master bathroom. Things are cleared out, colors are picked, and I am ready to get to work. Can’t wait to show the progress!
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Hello
Just popping in with a fun, quick project I did to brighten up my porch for summer. I was out and about at the Hobby Lobby and came across this fun easle that was on sale. It was screaming to go on my front porch. I have wanted to do a sign for my porch for a while, but I didn’t have room to hang anything anywhere. I grabbed this easle, and went to work on my silhouette. I knew I just wanted something simple, yet a little fun and modern looking. My son actually came up with the idea of using a chevron print, and I wanted it to…
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Chicken Alfredo Pizza..fast…easy…Yum!
Today I am posting a fun family recipe that is so dang easy to make. The best part, the kids love it, my hubby loves it, and I love it because it is so fun and easy to make. Win win! Perfect for a summer night. Chicken Alfredo Pizza Pizza crust (either your favorite recipe from scratch or refrigerated dough) 4 boneless chicken breasts cooked and diced 3 heads of broccoli chopped and cooked 1 bottle Alfredo sauce 2 cloves of garlic Mozzarella cheese Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Roll out your dough and cook for five to ten minutes. The crust doesn’t have to be totally cooked, but…
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Painting cabinets
I recently had the opportunity to teach a class about furniture and cabinet painting and re finishing. This was such a fun topic to talk about. Finding old and dis-guarded furniture and giving it new life is what I love doing most. My family jokes with me that besides my piano, no piece of furniture is safe around here. It is true. What better way to transform a room than to give the pieces in that room some new life. If you can do that for just a few bucks worth of paint….even better right. Here are some fun tips and tricks I have learned along the way through my…
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Finishing touches
I am so happy to say that we are done, finished, and there is nothing left to do with the girl’s bathroom makeover. I am over the moon with how it turned out! It was defiantly one of the worst rooms in our home, and now it is one of my favorites. The moldings were the last detail in the room. I painted them and my husband installed them. I decided to frame the mirror with white molding. We also added white chair rail to top the V board. It is amazing what molding does to finish off a room. I painted the molding before we put it up and…
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It’s bright and I love it!
I am so close to being finished with my game room. We have been working on it for a couple of weeks, adding paint, wainscoting, desks, game tables…you name it. Except for the trim and a few touches the room is finally done. Here is the before…dull and boring. Just a blank space. Here it is now…bright and full of color! I wanted big pops of color in this room so I added a lot of turquoise, reds, and bright greens. It is a game room, so we wanted to make it fun. We have a place to watch TV, do homework, and have fun playing games. I found this…
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Easiest change in a room…painting furniture
We have been working on our game room these past few weeks. I have to say that my favorite part of any room is picking out and painting the color. I chose a soft yellow butter color for my walls, my furniture is red, and I needed to pick a third pop of color to really ground the room. I found this console well over a year ago at the DI for not much money at all. I knew I needed a place to put the TV on and this was just the piece I needed for the room. This is a classic example of an old seventies piece of…
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Fun and games
It is starting to feel a little like spring around here, and sunshine and longer days always make me feel like a project. We have moved on to our game room. It is a large room above our garage that I want to make into a cozy, bright, and fun hang out for the kids. Here is what it looked like before. It had tons of potential, and I loved that angles on the walls. The very first thing to go was that awful window air conditioner. The next thing we did in this room was build this closet. The original closet was turned into our laundry room, so I…
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Buttercream
Making progress on the bathroom and I am almost done. Just waiting on some finishing trim, and hanging some mirrors we bought, and this bathroom reno is done. The before…So so so awful! Now the after. I got the vanity painted, the counter top in, and new pulls on the cabinet. I love how it turned out. I painted the cabinet a valspar color called butter, and the walls school boy blue. We found the chandeliers at Ikea. We are still installing molding around the mirror, and found some cool black girly oval mirrors to install on top of the large mirror. The color choices were my daughters, but I…
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Holy Bathroom Batman
The hall bathroom. Seriously the worst room of my entire home. I don’t know where to begin, from the dark brown tiles to the forest green paint on the walls…all of it is so horrible! The tile on the floor was uneven and you had to step up on the tile to get into the shower room. So dark…and it was a bathroom for two girls. Not girly at all. Oh my gosh, when we got these walls painted, the room felt totally transformed. We put the same black and white basket weave tile that we put in our basement bathroom and painted the walls a light gray blue…
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Throw back Thursday
My twelve year old daughter went to school today wearing leg warmers, ratted hair, purple eyeshadow, and everything else that entails dressing in the eighties. It was throw back Thursday at her school today. She was so excited, and it got me thinking about all the fun things I have worked on in all the other houses I have lived in. Some of my favorite things to do when I move into a house is to add color. As I am re doing this house, I love to see all the different rooms and color that I added to other places I have lived in. This was one of my…
