House Renovation

This October will be two years since I inherited the "Brick House". My uncle, my dad, and myself have been working on fixing it up it since last July. It has been a slow battle, but I thought I would share what we've accomplished so far. I am proudest of the kitchen. We used Duron's Silvermist on the walls, and plain white for the cabinets.





The master bedroom hasn't changed much, just lightened up the walls from a dark peachy tan to Duron's Kilim Beige.



The guest room looks worlds better, from a horrible bright blue that would hurt your eyes to Duron's Divine White.



The living room was off white, and looks similar to how it does now, but before, it had a very unsafe fireplace. The person that built the house never finished the chimney and we also had some very bad leaks around it. Since the house is so small anyway, we had the chimney knocked down and walled up the fireplace. Now, it it a suitable space for built ins, cabinetry, etc. I have not decided on a color for the living room yet, but I am thinking a light sage green.




The bathroom is the next biggest project after the kitchen. It needs to be completely gutted. Here is a before shot.




I can't take all the credit here though. I enlisted the help of Chris Kauffman of the blogs Just Beachy and CK Interiors to help pick paint colors and sort of shape the way with how to make the interior of the house look nice. She is amazing. Her style of decorating is perfect for my little house. We've come a long way but have a long way to go. I will definitely be glad when this project is over. For more pictures go to my flickr page.

Picture Frame Before/After

Since I started my job at Goodwill, you can imagine all the cool stuff I find. One thing was this awesome little oil painting. It was in great shape, just needed a little cleaning and a coat of aqua paint.Vintage frames have great designs but usually they're made of gold plastic. Don't pass a frame by just because of color though, paint it!

Vintage Finds = Cool DIY Projects to do

I was fortunate to pick up this chair for only $9.99 at Goodwill! I am going to paint it white, and get it reupholstered with yellow and white fabric. It is quite comfortable, and such a bargain, considering all the accent chairs that we were looking at to purchase new were $200+

On another trip, I found these awesome lamps for $8.99. They are an identical pair, one pictured here. They are really huge, probably 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall. Not sure I am feeling the shape of those shades. They at least need to be recovered, but I am thinking white drum shades will make them look a little more modern. The bases are a little rusty, but that's nothing a little elbow grease and spray paint can't cure.

Orla Kiely Canisters

We picked up these two canisters at Target for a steal! They were in the clearance section for under $5.00 a piece. We didn't buy them at first, since they were a little pricey. But now they happily house our brown sugar and rice. I had read some reviews on Target.com that people were unhappy with the fact that the lids don't quite fit. Ours didn't want to fit at first either, but I found that if I messed with the rubber seals enough, they would eventually fit flush.