NYE Weekend Projects

So we were quite busy over the New Years holiday. Terry painted the trim, windows and closet doors in his office. We still need to eventually paint the walls but Terry just needs to decide on a color.

We also finished up our bathroom. Painted the walls and took down all of the "senior proofing" in there. Added some new towel hooks. Eventually we will replace the old linoleum....but that will have to wait a while since we have so much more painting to do :) W really do love the look of our new bathroom. Feels way more modern with these colors.

We also finished getting all the furniture from Terry's Aunt and Uncle. Our formal living room is pretty much fished except for the painting of the walls & trim. It feels so wonderful having something in this room now. Starting to all come together. We love it, and so do our kitties!!

As far as the furniture goes we only have one more item to get and that will be a formal dining room table. We will be getting that in a few weeks. Check back later for more :)

New Bedding

Since Terry travels so much he looked at all of his hotel points and realized that he had a ton and turned them all in to Amazon.com gift cards. So with that money we ended up getting some new bedding to match the new Purple Dragon room ;) Now we just need to get something up on the walls. Especially the wall behind the bed. Have not decided what will go there...but when we do we will let you know. Anyone have any ideas for us?

Spray Painting

So Terry's wonderful cousin Amy gave us some items for the house she no longer needed. They were awesome but gold in color and didn't match our decor. So we grabbed one of our favorite go to products called Rustoleum All Surface Spray Paint in High Gloss Black. First we cleaned all of the items with a product called TSP and let it dry. We have been using this product on the walls, doors and molding to help get all the years of dust, dirt and grime off. It really works well and is a pretty easy step. Anyways, after we cleaned we applied a couple coats of the Rustoleum. I don't have photos of all the stuff we spray painted but here are a few. We got the candelabra in the below photo. The previous homeowner left the fireplace screen and tools and then their is the before and after of the mirror we recieved. What do you think?

Welcome the Purple Dragon!

Just finished up another project on our checklist. Ever since I was a little girl my favorite color was purple. I have always wanted to have a purple bedroom and now that we have a house it was time to make that dream a reality! It took a lot of convincing to get Terry to agree having a purple bedroom....BUT when I finally did pick out the paint color and told him it was called "Purple Dragon" he was on board because it sounded a bit more manly! I will admit while we were putting it on we started to get a bit concerned because it was looking a little like I love Barny-ish. Since we had the green Frog Tape on all the molding but after it dried and we took off all the tape and added everything back into the room we absolutely loved it. Even Terry! Just love how the black furniture, white molding and doors look with the lavender. We are extremely pleased with this transformation.

The next thing we need to do is eventually purchase new bedding and add a few more photos to the walls and we will be all set.

Here are the before and after shots.

We also got the approval of old Jo. He jumped right on the bed as soon as we were finished setting it up and proceeded sleep there the remainder of the evening :)



Master Bedroom Redo

In the same Thanksgiving weekend we moved into the master bedroom...since the paint was taking forever to dry in the bathroom. Again... we have lots of wood that needed to be painted white. We decided to change primers for this round to an oil based paint. Things went much smoother and the paint dried SO much faster. The coverage was thicker we did 2 quick coats and put on the final coat on in the same evening. It was all dried and ready to go in the morning on Sunday.

Here is our bedroom before. With lots of wood. UGLY gold ceiling fan and hideous window coverings (even though they did block out the light)

Here are the after photos of the windows, closet doors and molding.

We also purchased a new ceiling fan as well as new window blinds. We opted for the faux wood ones...look just as good as the real ones and half the price!

We still have the other side of the closet doors to paint this evening then we will start to paint the bedroom walls. I convinced Terry that we should have a lavender bedroom. Purchased the paint for that last night and will be doing that this week/weekend. Then we will add our bed and furniture back into our bedroom (sleeping in the guest bedroom now). More photo transformations to come :)

I have been asked what primer and paint we used for these projects. See below. We purchased both of these products at Ace Hardware. I believe they were around $20 something for each gallon of paint. We have painted the bathroom and bedroom molding, cabinets and doors and still have about 1/4 of it left in each. So it goes a long way.