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Mixing some old with some new
December is over and January is a new month and a new year. December was a whirlwind for me this year, and although I got a lot done in my house, I didn’t get a lot done on my blog. We have been working on our master bedroom the past couple of months. My older post showed my room painted, and the ceiling painted as well. I painted the room Silver sage from Restoration hardware. I love the color, so calming and relaxing. One of the fun new additions I put in the room was a new fireplace. It is a real flame fireplace. It burns a real fire using…
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Half bath
So while we were doing our big master bath project, we decided to finish the half bath downstairs at the same time. This is the room before the demo. All I can say about it is EWWW! I have hated this room since the day we moved in. The paint was brown…I hate the color brown, the floors were wood which the toilet leaked on and made it smell great, and it was where all our guests went to use the restroom. Embarrassing right! So let’s just say, I was more than a little excited to demo this room! We ripped out everything including the floors. The room is small,…
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A little this and that
We are finished with the master bath project finally and have moved onto the master bedroom. Last Saturday Jeff and I looked at each other and said we should paint the room…just go for it, just like that. It only took a couple of hours and we had ourselves a beautifully painted bedroom. I couldn’t believe how quickly we got it done. I guess I was use to the bathroom project, long, messy, and labor intensive. Not at all, this was quick, and fun, and exciting. Here is the bedroom before paint. Just a plain white room with this funky ceiling treatment. We were originally thinking about putting up ceiling…
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Finish Master Bath Pictures
Finally…after almost three months my bathroom is done. I am so happy to have that room finished. This has been one of our hardest re models. I don’t know if it was because it was the start of school, or it was being up rooted and having my things in all different places in the house. I also know that I don’t deal well with messes, and this was a mess for quite a while. Anyway….here is the before… And here is the finished bathroom. I took a lot of different pictures. It is hard to photograph the room because of the orientation. I love how it turned out…very calming…
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How we made our wood counter top
It has been forever since I have started this bathroom re model. About two months to be exact. I think this has been one of our toughest renovations we have ever done. I don’t know why, maybe it was the time of year we started, or living out of the girl’s bathroom was not the funnest. Either way, it is so close to be finished. We are using it…all of it! Yay. Before I started this project, I wanted to find an old dresser or something I could use for the vanity. As we looked, we just found there was nothing out there that would fit or work. I decided…
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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…
