Today’s house project is front door painting. I got discouraged with the kitchen cabinet refinishing project, even though it is moving along (at a snail’s pace). More on that later. To counter the discouragement, I decided to tackle a job that would only take a day from start to finish. I like the color,…
Tag: decorating
Mathematical Redecoration
Today’s decorating projects all revolve around the idea of subtraction. That mostly involves taking our cabinet doors off of the cabinets and popping the ugly trim off of them. Someday soon, they’ll transform from 70’s chic to flat-front white cabinets. The other project has involved getting rid of remnants of ugly around…
A Map Wall of Our Very Own
We have this big wall in our downstairs guest room that used to be a flannel wall. I’m not exactly sure why it was flannel, but I think the former owner used it to piece together quilts. Maybe. Regardless, I didn’t really want a white flannel wall in our guest room. (Scott didn’t have any opinion…
After!
Okay, here was the original “before” picture of our bedroom, complete with yellow paint: And here is the new wall color: Personally, I’m a pretty big fan. There are still some other things to do in the room (switch the fan blades from the wood grain side to the white side, put up our curtains,…
Not Quite to the After
This is what our bedroom looked like this morning, and it’s what our bedroom still looked like until 3 PM, actually. Now at 7:30, there’s a fresh coat of paint on the walls, and I couldn’t be more excited. I have to wait a few hours before I get down to the business of the…
Moving In
As the years have progressed, I’ve developed a bit of a nesting habit. At first, it only came out during my summers as a camp counselor. The camp I worked for traveled to different locations every week to maximize the people we could share camp with and to make life a little simpler for parents. …
Cast Your Vote: Cabinet Knobs
Today’s project is to pick four knobs for a filing cabinet that I recently acquired from some friends. (Thanks, friends!) The cabinet is green, more or less like the two jackets on the right in this picture by House on Hill Road: Okay, so option A is one of these with three of the…
Small, but valuable. 