After surviving one of the coldest Minnesota winters in 35 years we spent the last week or two drowning in rain. I’m sure there were hundreds of people with water in their basement, including us. After the water nightmares in our MPLS house (read more about that here) this water issue was nothing. The floater…
Carpet, countertop & beer
We’ve attained the trifecta over at Casa de Pitlick; carpet, countertop and beer! Sounds silly but those were three big things to check off our to-do list for the basement. 🙂 Even Sophie likes the carpet… (Sorry for the blurry photo.) So far we’ve only had one “spill” on the carpet. The spring thaw last…
Cray cray crazy changes
Wait, what? Jared Allen is no longer a Viking and Ke$ha is no longer Ke$ha? AND it’s 50 degrees in Minnesota right now!?! Change is hard, I’ll get it over it, but what sort of new sack dance do I have to learn? My dance skills are lackluster as-is. I like nicknames, all my favorite musicians…
DIY Gallery Wall Shelves Pt 2
Ta da! We have shelves to hang all our mirrored beer/whiskey/schnapps signs! It’s funny what you can see in the reflections in this picture.. Nolan’s head, Nolan’s legs, Nolan’s arm & the door, Sophie’s head, the stairs, hehe. Check out pt 1 of the DIY gallery shelves here. The empty freezer ended up being a nice holding…
DIY Gallery Wall Shelves Pt 1
I’m super excited about the gallery wall shelves I’m making right now! I was inspired by these shelves. Wood, check. Shelf dimensions, check. Gallery wall layout, check. This is the wall you immediately see when you walk down the stairs to the basement. The boards stood in our entry way for about a week. First…
Akurum Cabinets
After a couple days and a trip to Ikea we have cabinets!! And Dr. Pepper. One down, 5 to go. Lesson #1: Give yourself plenty of time and be patient. We worked together to get the first one assembled. Check out my purple screwdriver. 🙂 If anyone wants to buy me a small electric one…
Happy feet & paws
Nolan and Sophie have happy feet and paws standing on the heated floors! We didn’t finish painting the trim in that corner because the bar cabinets will cover that up, as you can see we didn’t even bother removing the wallpaper that was discovered under the trim on the bar wall. As I mentioned before,…
Check check check
Update on my January list. Install master bedroom light fixture. Done. Check out my $35 light fixture here. Order carpet for basement. Done, it’s being install Thursday morning! It’s Mohawk SmartStrand in a gray two-toned color. I can’t find the color online; they name all their carpet differently so people don’t price shop. I don’t get it.…
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is not just a state of mind, its a paint color. Sherwin William’s Mindful Gray to be more specific. And since we’re such mindful people (ha!), that’s what we chose for the basement color. Along with urbane bronze for below the chair rail. I even used SW’s Paint Color Visualizer to come up with this scheme.…
Basement – During
I hate these blurred lines photos. Really, I’m not sure how that happened, but I admitted that I’m not good at taking pictures in my About page. Nolan and I ripped up the carpet ourselves. The pad was actually in pretty good shape for being over 20 years old. We hauled it out into our…