Showing posts with label improvements and decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improvements and decor. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Updated house pictures

As you can see the living room isn't done yet...missing some curtains, some plug covers, some other minor stuff...like the cove molding etc. But overall so far here it is...
Let us recall our former glory of a kitchen....nice roll around dishwasher. Nice torn up floor with squares peeling off of old linoleum, torn up knee wall... Lovely half painted walls, Ugly dark green laminate countertop that was peeling off...
Here is the kitchen as you first come into it. I stitched together some photos so the bar looks longer than it really is, but it is kind of the way it is....
Kitchen Panorama from the other side...can see how big the bar really is...
This shows the new cabinetry by the dining room. I really like the way it turned out.
And of course the dining room again this time with furniture...Ok here is a funky panorama of the bathroom. Sure makes it look huge with it stitched like this but when the bathroom is so tiny hard to get much in one picture. but you can at least see the full combination of colors here....Here is over by the toilet area, shows the back part all except behind the door which isn't done yet.... this is a bit more realistic size wise....
Color is off here but you can see the view from the corner of the tub..

Sunday, October 31, 2010

My actual colors

I could not find the exact color of the pecanwood online but this is basketweave that I have altered a little to try to make it closer to the clor I used. All of these have white trim against it so I surrounded the colors with white so you could see how they look. I think the antique is warmer than I can see on my screen but should be similar.

Friday, September 10, 2010

The Bench fit for a king....or queen...or kitty kat

Ok Mike...let me know just which one you'll need....I'll bring it to you...that one? Nope, ok this one? ok, got it...Here ya go Mike, sure glad I'm here to help you! What that yellow thing do?

OOOOOO Its a scratching tool! Yes scratch scratch scratch...works great
Thanks for bring this for me Mike...


What???? What???? I'm working Here! Gotta help Mike ya know???

Ok, here is what Mike and I did (ok joe helped a little) But mostly he needed my
special Kitty knowledge to help him build hiding places and places to scratch

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Before, During and After Shelves

Ok, this is where we started.........
What a mess! Where in the world did I get all this junk?
The garage becomes the catch all for everything
but unuseable for anything
My brother, Mike, designed and built me some new shelves
we hired our friend Joe to help him
Here is Mike and Joe workign furiously to get this done
It went up relatively quickly
Ran out of nails but other than that Mike
had figured almost perfectly what was going to be needed
to build this up front.
Had one small piece of 2x4 left over and some very small pieces of
the shelf topping left over
and here is the finished shelves!
No this is not all of the stuff that was on the others...
but I was able to fit all of the junk that
sat in front of the other shelves onto these
but these were the only things that looked organized enough to take
a decent picture for posting!
Now to tackle the REST of the room!
Mike is going to build us a workbench and
some shelves over and under that
plus leave a section at the end for some of the taller stuff we have to store...
pretty nice huh?
Mike says these things could hold hundreds of pounds...
Hopefully I won't have to find out their limits...
though with MY JUNK
I probably could!
thanks mike.


Thursday, September 02, 2010

Found this picture


This from an online blog and

has very similar feel to

what I want in colors

and in the beadboard!

Guess I'm not very original

but dont' matter...

I still like it!


Different take on similar colors...


Another idea...hmmmm can you see the difference?

I think these might be my colors...

For the walls....the white will be for the beadboard and trim, the khaki for the living room and the blue for the bathroom and dining room and kitchen...not positive but its a start. Now to find paint that matches hehe

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Temporary entry

Because I am redoing the downspouts around different parts of my house, I had to move a bunch of stuff I had outside to give room to work. I moved some stuff to right next to my front door and decided to make a temporary entry spot that could look good while it awaited its final resting place....I think its pretty cute for now, as those who have a keen eye like to point out to me "its not level" I can usually counter "its not permanent and I only had a few hours" so they back off for now....smart huh?