Another List

Now that volleyball is over, cabin-season is winding down, and I can be fueled by PSLs, I feel motivated to tackle a bunch of inside projects!  Here are just a few I’ve been thinking a lot about: Blog about kitchen/dining/hallway wallpaper removal. Install bathroom door knob. Install crown molding in front bedroom and office, maybe…

Days Off

Like any other normal person I decided to paint my bathroom on my day off. Sounds easy, right? Wrong.   -Remove the towel and TP holder. -Remove light fixture and mirror. -Patch holes including those mentioned above. -Wait an hour. -Sand patches. -Re-apply spackle. -Wait an hour. -Sand patches again. -Wash down all walls from…

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.…

Paint Sampling

Try paint samples before actually painting a room. Other people can probably pick out colors fine without problem but not me (even in our current 2nd bedroom I thought I nailed it and nope!). I’ve read blogs that give tips on picking out paint colors, there is some great advice out there but my stand-by way of…

Master Bedroom – During

Finally it’s painting time! We ended up picking Behr Dolphin Fin. It’s a shade darker than the gray here (if you can’t tell the gray is the 2nd color from the right). Even though we didn’t get a paint sample of Dolphin Fin we’re really happy with it. For a big room we could have gone…

Master Bedroom- Before

Our master bedroom is large (and in charge) compared to our old house, but it’s got the ugly 80s popcorn ceiling and **had wall-to-wall-to-floor wallpaper. I don’t have any pictures with the wallpaper but here are some post-wallpaper removal pictures. We also took off all the floor trim to make it easier to sand down…