Ideas Galore

 So Jamie and Marla Winters recently turned me on to my new online obsession. Pinterest.com I have found so many ideas for the house my head is swimming.

I thought I would share a few with you.

Enjoy!!!

I am nowhere NEAR finishing the exterior, but when I do...

New siding color - Gray

New front door color - Yellow

Trim/Accent - White

 

Ideas for a nice and tidy laundry room/pantry.

Mom desperately wants someone to wallpaper with maps. This might be an accent wall for my guest bath on the first floor. With the a dark painted wood walls or bead board as a base. So please everyone send me your vintage National Geographic magazine pull out maps (we all know they never fold the same way to fit back inside the magazine once you open them). 

 

  FIND OF THE WEEK: $40 PEDESTAL SINK!

I found this little beauty for my downstairs guest bathroom at White Farmers/Flea Market. The one new at Lowe's was $96.

 

   I am obsessed with painted wood floors to. Some of the wood in the new house is not great...but I hate to put carpet over it. This is what I am thinking....maybe a stencil border? This is the hallway that will lead to the master bedroom upstairs.

The plastic squares to the right came from the garage door as decoration in the windows. HOW COOL would it be if I could use this as stencils to make the painted border on my floor?!?!?

  Maybe this painted "runner" to go up the stairs?

I'm also loving sliding doors.

 

There is not a ton of counter space in the kitchen. How about I find a great dresser, put wheels, hooks and paint on it and call it a kitchen island with storage!

 I like the idea to the right for the right side of my mudroom.

With some help from Adobe Photoshop I did a idea board for my guest bathroom.

Storage - Cabinet from kitchen that needs to move to make room for full size fridge

Flooring - Ceramic tile

Walls Bottom - Bead board or wood trim detail in a dark color - something pulled from maps

Walls Top -  Light bright creme or white

Tub - Metal original to house

Toilet - Original to house 

Sink - Pedestal - $40 Flea Market Find!

TBD - Fixtures, Door, Hardware

 More ideas to come....in the mean time send me your maps for my bathroom accent wall! If anyone wants the link to the DIY or articles to go with the pictures let me know.

-Nina

Small project progress...

Hello everyone, sorry long time no blog! The house is coming along a little slow right now. Dad is at air force duty in New Mexico. When he gets back we will start full swing in the upstairs renovation. Until then here are a few ideas and things I have been working on. 

The upstairs is finally 100% gutted. Mom and I did the last bit a few weeks ago.

 

 

 

I bleached all the walls downstairs in preparation for primer. 

They went from a lovely tan to nearly white.

I bought $20 worth of cleaning supplies at the dollar store. The checkout lady said it looked liked I was going to have fun, I told her it was a party! I invited her and she turned me down.

 

I stripped off the layers of wallpaper above the kitchen cabinets. This is one of the patterns. Thank goodness this small area is the only place in the house with wallpaper!!!

 Nice thin skim coat of joint compound to smooth out the walls where I had to dig at wallpaper.

 This is post second skim coat. I think I got this down pat!

The basement was power washed by Ryan, Taff, and Dan. Then Ross and Co. Sprayed the walls and floor. This actually looks like livable space now! Here are some oh so shocking before and afters!

 

 

 

 Last but not least all the interior walls downstairs (except office) were spray primed by Ross and Co. It doesn't smell anymore thanks to 2 coats of Zinzer 123!!!

Living room facing front of house

Living room facing back of house

Left side of front room - Soon to be mudroom

Right side of front room - Soon to be laundry room and pantry

1st floor Guest Bedroom

  

 

 

 

Lots of Demo!

In the last few weeks more demo has taken space on Spencer Street. Me + 4 Demo Divas ( My mom, Melissa, Marla, and Amanda) took out trim, tack strips, and a bathroom. My dad and I re-framed windows. The most exciting...actually put something new in the house! Wood and nails! I feel like we are building something now not just ripping it apart. Two more big demo projects are in my future: Finish upstairs and basement garage. 

Here are some pictures of recent work days.

Here is the guest bathroom. Only the tub and toilet will stay. The tub is metal and just need a good cleanup. This will save us a little money! Yay!

 Marla, "Sledgie the sledgehammer", and I took out the corner cabinet. We will be replacing it with a section of kitchen cabinet that need to come out to make room for the fridge.

The sink, floor, plastic shower walls, bead board are gone. Just need to re-frame window.

 

 Where the new pedestal sink will go. New fixtures and mirror.

 Cool metal tub. Needs a good scrubbing!

 Here you can see my lovely helpers pulling up some tack strips. As much as I would love to see the carpet go...its currently acting as a great drop cloth. It will be one of the last things to go.

 Amanda - small and sweet - fits well in closets. She did great!

 Guest bedroom minus trim and tack strips.

 

First trailer of something going INTO the house! I liked the teal painted ends of the lumber.

Here is the bathroom with newly framed rough opening for the obscured glass slider.

Here is the step by step on the double size master bedroom window. The room looks HUGE now. I am tempted to not use it as a bedroom.

 Not a bad view out the back, just a sea of green.

 Here is the office. The 3 regular windows that did not match up with the rest of the front of the house are replaced by a large slider similar to the bathroom. I forgot to take a final result picture...will do tonight.

 Neon faux walls = great sketch pad.

If your a good little worker...this greets you at dinner. 

Yum. I could not finish the quart...but did my best.