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Monthly Archives: February 2012

1/2 Bath Complete!

02-29-2012

Once upon a time….our half bathroom under the stairs looked like this: And then, after much stenciling, installing a new light fixture, and some other details which I will go into later this week, the half bathroom is done. We think we like it. We (think). Take a look and tell us whatcha think.

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Stenciltown

02-28-2012

Hopefully this isn’t annoying….but the next few days I’m going to be updating some old posts on our half-bath. Hope they inspire.  Remember when I said I wanted to stencil our half bath with this great “Folk Flower” stencil from Royal Design Studio? Remember when I thought it would take me only a Sunday afternoon to complete this project and…

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More Seating for Us

02-27-2012

Our weekends have been pretty filled here lately…so here’s another old post that’s been updated. Enjoy.     When I first built the island, I included a 7” overhang to accommodate for some nice saddle back stools in the future. I thought this would be as simple as heading over to Target and picking out a pair for $20/each. Instead…

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This is an older post that I’ve recently updated;   So when I was a bachelor, living in an apartment, I remember seeing some pretty cool book shelves at Target. The only problem was that they cost $89. There was no way that I was going to pay that much for one, because I knew that I could build 3…

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Some Progress…

02-24-2012

We tend to only have time to do one project at a time and slowly but surely transform a room. We’re planning a trip to IKEA tomorrow to pickup some small items for the home office…but until then I thought I’d show a few “before” pictures of the room. And a few of it’s current condition… Also….not sure if anybody’s…

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Picking up from where I left off last Thursday…..you want to sew your boxing strip (which should be the extra 1-inch thick strip you cut to go along the backside of your window cushion) with the zipper before you move forward with adding cording, etc. 1) Press under 1/2″ seam allowance on one long edge of the zipper strip. Remember…

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I’ve recently completed another Pottery Barn Bailey Console Table Replica. A customer wanted one just like the one that’s in our house except less wide. To accommodate the shorter width, I decided to drop one drawer. Another big change was that I used 1″ thick material (except for the tabletop) instead of scrap 2″ thick pieces. The appeal to the first table…

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If wasn’t too long after my office chair was painted that Ellie was pleading for us to find one for her side. We did a little searching and I was extremely surprised by what she picked out. I took the lime green seat cushion off too soon but here she is in all her beauty; We took a risk buying…

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Quite a while ago, Ellie brought home a thrift store find that she was super excited about. The original location for this treasured find was right above the apothecary console. She quickly painted it and found out that she didn’t like it. It’s been sitting in our attic ever since. On a bored Saturday afternoon, I decided to dust it…

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When Tommy built our L-shaped window bench in the kitchen last Spring, I broke out my mom’s sewing machine and cut up an old memory foam mattress to sew some make-shift window cushions using cheap, solid brown fabric that I bought from JoAnn fabrics. Emphasis on the words “make-shift.” One of my big projects this winter has been to replace my…

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Thanks for your help in making the decision for us to refinish the thrift store chair that I bought. It was a unanimous vote to paint the chair white and maybe add a cushion to it. It was a pretty simple process. I sanded down the whole chair to rough it up enough to allow the paint to stick. It…

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Our walls were in need of a little something something. Ellie really wanted some additional shelving for storage/organization. If I were to put up shelves, I wanted some symmetry….which meant we would need 4 shelves total to accomplish both of our goals. Call me Mr. Cheap-o, but I wasn’t comfortable with spending $50-$100 on shelves that I could build with…

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Back to Bare Bones

02-06-2012

I told Tommy over the weekend that sometimes I feel like our family room is the red-headed step child of our house. It’s the room we spend the most time in, and the room we never feel is complete. I sold the window cornices I built this fall, so our windows are back to naked. A few options we have…

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Did we mention that we are weekend warriors? i.e We both work full-time jobs during the week and the only time we have to get things done around the house is Saturday and Sunday. Yup…..we are somewhat normal people. Right now, we both have a couple little projects in the works that we will hopefully be posting about later on…

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iPad Stand

02-04-2012

With a his and hers double work station, I needed something to stake claim on which side was mine. Ellie’s side is complete with sewing machine, craft items, binders, and more. My side just had a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad. Early on the construction process I decided to build a little iPad stand. I stumbled across some inspiration via…

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