You know, I have blog dreams of posting on the every-other-daily - giving the internet a new DIY project often to quell the monotony that daily life (especially that of stay-at-home moms...am I right?) can bring. BUT, being one of those monotony-living moms means there isn't much room for projects AND blogging everyday. So, in saying that, I just want to apologize for being absent here for almost THREE WEEKS! It's not because I don't care but mostly because I've been painting, and painting, and painting some mo...and mostly keeping us all alive and thriving of course. ;)
But, finally, I have something to show for all the painting. Huzzah!
Our new and improved pantry:
I don't know that I ever shared what it looked like before but I definitely took a quick pic before I started and...
Breakfast Nook Update
October 17, 2019
It's pretty boring at this point still but I thought that, since I don't have any fun tutorials to share (yet!), maybe you'd settle for an update on breakfast nook progress.
Like I said though, it's pretty boring.
The walls are almost ready for paint - Anthony has been filling and sanding for the past several days (there were a few spots of troubled drywall thanks to vinyl wallpaper removal) - BUT, the window trim is all painted and you can sort of get a (very small) glimpse of the direction this room is going...the light at the end of the design tunnel. Light and airy. It's amazing what paint can do...have I ever mentioned that? ;) It take a good stretch of the imagination to envision what a room will look like when it's down to bare drywall but once paint starts going up, things get easier to picture. It also gets way more exciting! :D
Our Breakfast Nook - Current Project
October 9, 2019
October's room of the month is the breakfast nook (or any place you eat if you don't have a breakfast nook). We should be getting that beam in the kitchen ceiling in the next month or so and then we'll get down with that kitchen makeover but since this room is right next to that, we'll start here and just flow over into the kitchen.
I for one, can't wait for that. I feel like the kitchen with it's studded wall is the project that's been hanging over our heads in a dark cloud. I don't mind unfinished things but when a room is unfinished and ready to be finished but has to wait on, in this case, cooler weather, patience is a daily struggle.
But, we'll focus that will to finish on the breakfast nook and maybe we'll forget about the studs...
Here's what our nook looked like right after we moved in:
And this is what it looks like today (behind the aging lens of an old iPhone):
Our Entry Way - The Reveal!
September 30, 2019
September 1st I set out to makeover our entry way and I announced that it would be the #letsroomtogether space for September but really, I figured I could probably get it done in two weeks. Ha ha ha HA!
Hellooo Sheena. Take a deep breath and settle down on those hippity-high hopes from here on out. Time ain't crawling like it used to.
Hellooo Sheena. Take a deep breath and settle down on those hippity-high hopes from here on out. Time ain't crawling like it used to.
That joke was on me but also on the sad state of our entry before we started. Let's back track...
All the way back (a few months) to popcorn ceilings, wallpaper, and that sad trim. The ceilings got smoothed over, the wallpaper came down, and the trim got freshened up.
Add a few more throws of confetti here and there and...
Crossing My Ts and Dotting My...Lamp
September 23, 2019
Let me tell you a little story about a lamp. I found this one at Goodwill last week:
I went in to hunt for a lamp and came out with one. Huzzah! While that probably sounds incredibly lucky; a first-time find, it took me three strolls through different Goodwills to find the perfect one. Patience and perserverance here kids.
However, the lamp itself 'twas far from perfect, even though it seemed unused.
That inner layer of cream paint was cracking and peeling, bubbling and shuffling. But the shape of the lamp is what caught my eye and I knew I could remedy that poor paint situation. (After all, this wouldn't be my first time taking care of peeling paint inside a lamp.)
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