Tag Archives: renovation

Help, I’m stuck!

posted on May 17, 2012

After 3 weekends of doing nothing on my bedroom project because of my job, I finally have a weekend to get back on track. I’m at a point in the refinishing of our built-ins where I need to make a decision and just can’t. I’m having such a hard time and Richie tends to pull that “oh, whatever you choose will be fine”, thing. I appreciate his flexibility but it’s not helping me to actually come up with a FINAL decision that I won’t regret later. (ahhhhhhhh!)

So many of you have incredible homes and amazing design eyes… so I need ….

Is it done yet?

posted on May 2, 2012

After starting our re-finishing of the built-in cabinets/dresser in the master bedroom I was feeling really great about how it was going. My plan to get this done in 2 weeks seemed doable. The stripping seemed to be getting the finish off and the sanding was revealing some really beautiful wood under it all. YES, finally a job I could complete and have fabulous before and afters. WHATEVER! Then reality hits. So the answer to is it done yet is simply a sigh of NO, not yet. Unfortunately it’s always something and this time it’s my job slowing me down.

Stripping Down

posted on April 23, 2012

Weekends are made for fun! Right? So now we’re starting fun weekend project #568. Okay I’m exaggerating it’s probably more like #425 give or take a few. Time to start refinishing the built in cabinets in our bedroom.

When you’re having to live in a house that you’re renovating (as so many of you do) and you’re going room by room and trying to continue some sort of “normal” life in this mess, it’s almost more difficult than if we had moved out and tore up the place. Every time I get to a room it sometime feels like I’m going ….

This and That in the Bedroom

posted on April 18, 2012

Oh… get your mind out of the gutter. It’s not that kind of post. HA!

The weekends come and go so quickly that I’m not sure I even had one last week. We didn’t make a lot of progress on the Master Bedroom because there were so many other things that needed to be done.

You know things have gone too far when you star seeing cobwebs on the artwork like we’re living in some haunted house, there’s “pink slime” in the toilet that even the FDA wouldn’t approve of and you go to get the cat off the couch and you ….

Sunday bloody Sunday

posted on March 26, 2012

….. and how was your weekend? HA HA! Mine was bloody good, thank you.

HEY, home renovation is NOT for wussies! You got splinters…too bad. Your legs ache from standing on a ladder all day… too bad. You’re blowing black boogers out of your nose from sanding disgusting windows for hours on end … FEEL PROUD! (yes, we share our sanding boogers with each other. It’s true love. :-) LOL
At the end of the day that’s what it takes … and so that’s what we do. And a good time is had by all.

Did you believe it when I ….

Master Bedroom Inspiration

posted on January 29, 2012

While working on the master bedroom this weekend my thoughts repeatedly drift from what I’m working on to how the heck this project is going to come together. I’m bad about getting ahead of myself …. but when I’m finally done, I want to have everything I need.

I’ve known for over a year now that I wanted to use black and green in the room and gray is always a given because of the beams and woodwork. The stained concrete floors are a dark chocolate brown, which I have no intention of changing. The floors were stained during the original ….

master bedroom update

posted on January 3, 2012

Now that the kitchen is done we moved back into the master bedroom. We actually stopped all the work in this room when the kitchen project started to move so fast. Once we found a carpenter everything took off and the bedroom was abandoned. I’m definitely ready to get back to it. So here we go….

We’ll start with a quick “update” and reminder of where we were and what we’ve done.
The dark wood tongue and groove ceilings got cleaned and stained. The nice opaque stain really brightened the space. You may remember this post. >>>> Click Here.