Home Sweet Home Progress

Oil Rubbed Bronze spray painted door knob

We installed the door knob, hinges, and door stopper that we spray painted with oil rubbed bronze spray paint.  Like I mentioned before, we found brass ones discounted and used the spray paint for the look we wanted.  :-)  Here's a couple pictures!

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Crown Moulding in the bathroom closet

It's a little blurry in this picture, but here it is!  That was also finished last Monday.  This past Sunday Will finished the door frame, the base moulding and the inside door trim.  It's coming along.

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Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint!

On Friday we bought brass door knobs, hinges, and door stoppers, that were discounted.  On Pinterest we saw that you could buy oil rubbed bronze spray paint to cover them.  

 Will scuffed them with a metal brush and then primed them.  After they were dry I spray painted them.  They look great!  The picture didn't come out the best but here's one with what we painted then one of Will drawing out where to chisel the door for the hinge to go.  

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Bathroom Closet

Will has also been working on the upstairs bathroom.  He built a closet between the tub and the wall that shares the hallway.  We brought our shower curtain to the hardware store for them to match the color for paint.  They did a good job!  This is our shower curtain...

The tan color is the one we were matching.  In person it looks more tan than it does in this picture... Here's a little peak into the closet and also a picture of the paint tray so you can see the color better...

I can't wait until this closet is done!  Right now we only have ONE in the whole house!!!  Next we are putting in shelves then Will needs to do the door trim and frame.  :-)  Getting closer!

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More Craft Room Storage!

This is the other cube organizer we got for the Craft Room.  It's from Target and is a Closetmaid unit.  The bins are also from Target as well.  Both units and all of the bins were on sale, which was great!  Emily and I found the baskets at Bath and Body Works (kinda random, I know...) and the color matches perfectly with the dark purple crown moulding.  Also they are made out of a plastic material so they will wipe clean... perfect for the Craft Room!  

See how well they match!! :-)

 

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More Craft Room updates. :-)

This afternoon I painted the door trim in the Craft Room.  Will is working on chiseling out spots for the hinges in the new door as we speak.  Here's the newly painted door frame.  

 There is a shadow on the door frame from the light... in person it looks better than the picture makes it look.  It took 3 coats of paint!

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Craft Room update!

The Craft Room is coming along nicely!  On Friday we had a surprise guest, one of Will's friends from high school that we hadn't seen since our wedding last year.  After Mike left we built a door frame, finished the base moulding, and shoe moulding.  Satruday we started to put up the crown moulding and Will had to build a header for the door and sheetrock and mud above the door frame.  Then we went to a wedding that afternoon as well.  Yesterday we had two more surprise guests, our friends that are getting married next weekend.  Then we worked more on crown moulding and finished sanding and mudding above the door.  Two of Will's brothers came later in the afternoon and were here for dinner.  Then Emily came to float in the lake and to watch The Bachelorette.  Today we finished mudding and sanding above the door (coat after coat after coat!) and painted it, AND FINISHED the crown moulding!  YAY!!!  It's now ready for a desk and shelves and all my craft stuff!!!  :-)  I am beyond excited.  I am so grateful that my husband worked so hard on it!!

I do have to say one thing before the pictures come.  I had bought some dark purple spray paint for a different project.  The other day out of the blue I asked Will what he thought about us spray painting the crown moulding purple.  He looked at me and said, I was thinking the same thing!  So, we tried it on a scrap piece and it looked great!  I am so excited about this.  It completely makes the room!  I love it!  The pictures don't completely do it justice, but you get the idea.  I am going to be posting more pictures shortly!  These were taken while we were still putting it up!  The first picture makes it look a little lighter in color than it actually is...

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More Craft Room Progess

On Friday I painted the ceiling! :-)  Then we were away for the weekend at Will's band's gig Saturday and spent Sunday out on our friend's boat at their camp.  On our way back we stopped at Lowe's and got the baseboard that we need.  We also bought dowels and brackets to hang all of the ribbon I found for such a great deal! 

Yesterday morning Will was able to finish up the sanding in the funky corner in my craft room.  So... yesterday afternoon I primed and painted the rest of it!  It is all painted and ready to go.  It was SUCH a hot day for painting, but it was well worth it.  Emily came over white the primer was drying and we floated out in the lake for awhile.  Boy did that feel refreshing!

I have so many ideas for this room!!  I am getting awfully excited to finish it!  More updates to come shortly!

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Craft Room progress!

This afternoon I started painting my craft room!  Here's what it looks like so far. :-)  

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Craft Room progress

 

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Light boxes for the bathroom lights

Will and I did a lot of measuring and double checking before we found the correct spot for the lights that will be going above the double vanity and mirrors.  As you can see, the vanity and mirrors are not installed yet.  After some careful calculations, we found the correct spots for the electrical boxes for behind the lights.  He wired them tonight as well.  This is what it looks like so far.  

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Kitchen Window

We have finished the window in the kitchen above the sink.  First I taped around the window trim where it meets the wall.  I have to tell you, we had been using the cheaper blue painters tape.  We bought Frog Tape for the first time and I am hooked.  I am not going to use anything else, ever again.  Will used a clear polyurethane to finish the window trim.  For the first coat, he mixed half polyurethane and half mineral spirits.  Then Will continued with a second and third coat of straight polyurethane.  When the window trim was dry and finished, we added the sunflower canvasses above it.  I really like the finished product!  

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First off, this is a picture of our house taken from our boat.  As you can see, the outside structure is done, but the inside and also the grounds outside need a lot more work.  We have been doing 95% of the work ourselves, so it gets done a little at a time.  Now that it is summer, as we are both teachers, more tends to get done.  We are always doing SOMETHING to work on it... I will have lots to share.  Stay tuned...