Bedroom???

So, what do you think? Sea Glass on the walls, with citron, blue and orange accents.

Reno Update: Week Nine!

No lights on!

Pot lights on!

All the lights on! 

Can we talk about this color??? I just love it, it's Behr Poinsettia!!  Can we talk about these lights? I had to pay for these myself and they are worth every single dime -- even if I had to work through the Christmas Holiday to pay for them.

My second favorite upgrade in the kitchen is the trim along the ceiling! We've never had trim in the kitchen before, how very fancy. We also got toe kick along the kitchen cabinets, the toe kick we where supposed to install in 11 years ago. Oh, what's a decade here and there?! My only regret, no new floor first. Oh well, there's always the year 2021 for that.

Next up for the kitchen? The kitchen cabinets will get a good scrubbing, the trim will get painted and I'll overhaul the glass front cabinets with a fresh display. 

Moving on to the dining room...

Behr's Mellow Yellow

I was totally excited, after fretting and fretting, I really love this color. It's just pure sunshine.

It's insanely bright and I love every bit of it. I am sure my M-I-L will hate it, and that's how I'll know for sure that it's right for me.

 Look at it with the white trim and a new Modern June tablecloth!! Love, love, love!! Now I need some red chairs. : )

The pièce de résistance is the old stain glass window. My M-I-L gave us oh so long ago, I am glad that it finally has found a new home. I can't thank my contractor, Sander, enough for suggesting this. 


Well all and all a great week!

Seeing red...

No silly, I am not mad. I am delighted to have found a great red paint. You know how is goes you find an article in a homey mag that shows you what's hot in the paint world. So you keep the layout for months and sometimes years, waiting for the day you get to pull it out and hunt down the proper paint. 

I love the new color! It's brighter and has a lot more orange to it. The room will go from cranberry to tomato. The paint color is Poinsettia from Behr. The best thing about this is that I don't have to paint!! This is where the stupid tree goes to I am so glad that tree fell down.

Reno Update: Color Mood Board

 The color story for my home! I am so excited, I can't wait to start seeing color go up!! It'll make the fuss and mess worth while.

 Kitchen stays red.

Dining Room gets a nice yellow honey color with accents of red.

The cabinets between the two rooms is TBD. Sea Glass? Citron? 

Living room teal with a new orange print slip covers.

Hallway a bright lime green.

My bedroom with stay the prettiest shade of blue. 

New bedding in yellow, citron and red. 

New white shelves for vintage purse collect.

 

Bathroom walls TBD 

Maybe soft shade of grey for the wainscoting with a stencil pattern above in citron and white.

Splashes of orange for sure!!! 

Reno Update: Week Seven

 Do you like my cottage cheese ceiling? After dark it's very Dr. Who! The stupid tree landed right on top of the kitchen roof, the ceiling really took a beating from all the rain and impact. It was a nice excuse to check and see if the bathroom plumbing was intact.

Since repairs where necessary and a new dry wall ceiling was going to be put up I figured that a few pot lights just had to be added. I can't wait for my new pot lights to be in place!! I just love the new ones in the studio. It'll be so bright and modern, and worth every extra penny!!

 We eat out all week, and now we are broke!

We'll be having oatmeal and roman till the next pay day.

 Dry wall, plaster dust and plastic, oh, my! 

It was 5 days with plastic on the every door and no overhead lights. It was pretty annoying, but worth it in the end. (I'm repeating this over and over and over again!)

 The new dining room ceiling is up. Yahoo, no more water stained crumbling mess to worry about.

 I got dry walled ceilings with tape and mud for Christmas. While out getting lunch one day, I noticed that my handbag smelled like joint compound. I know your jealous!

 We considered sticking with this dilapidated Tuscan look that 

only a decaying plaster wall can capture. 

I love this photo, the mud on the wall isn't even dry and I am as ready for Christmas as I am going to be.

While Sander, chief contractor dude, coated the walls and ceilings with another coat of joint compound, his helpers, Steve and Irving, cleared the room of ladders, drills and other unnecessary equipment. They've been so great about making sure we have as nice of a holiday as possible.

The guys left my house early Wednesday afternoon and I went on a cleaning spree. I dusted, vacuumed, and mopped twice! Then I took down the plastic that separated the living room from the kitchen and dining room and pulled out one of my favorite vintage tablecloths and topped it with the one holiday decoration that Don pulled out of the attic. 

The Studio got a new cutting table top!!! I love how big it is. They guys took a 4' by 6' sheet of melamine board and some 2" by 4" and snuggled it around Target cube shelves and an old dresser. I'll finish up the paint and raw edges next week. 

Please don't judge me, the stuff on the shelves are just put there to be out of the way. I'll properly merchandise the room soon. All I've done for weeks is more crap from one place to another just to keep it safe. In retrospect, I see that I really should have just packed more of my stuff away. I guess I know what to do when the guys go upstairs in January. Oh yes, there's a whole other floor that needs to be repaired.

As a added treat, Sanders insisted that our upgraded electrical box be properly housed. I swear I don't know how to work in a studio that is an actual room and not a DIY dungeon.

The best part of this weeks update is the lack of updates. Four days without the guys in my house has been dreamy!! I grown to love them but break has been very nice. The timing is great, Aidan is sick and Maddie turned 14 on Thursday.

Reno Update: Week Six

Reno Update: Week Five

The back half of the house is looking good! The roofs are all done and totally water tight. I can't say the same for the brown door that you see on the balcony. We had a rainstorm that blew rain into the house. Let's just say we had a bit of a waterfall wall in the dining room below. Mother Nature also gave us a light show to with the water works. Oh, she's so clever. Enough. Already.

All they guys worked very hard to paint and trim out the back of the house. Of course, I catch Tacho sitting down for the first time in 3 months. love him, he sings all day long and always has a smile for me. I know that he thinks that I am a loco chica, and you know what, I am okay with that.

The window's looking fine! Just a little touch up left to do.

RIP Bliss Kitty! In the middle of all this chaos we've been trying to make the final days of our aging cat peaceful. I miss my furry friend of 16 years more than I ever thought possible. So, in a yard filled with mud is a pretty little plant for our pretty and extra big cat.

A mad dash of paint touch up before a they guys left for a well deserved weekend! 

 Framed and painted up all pretty like!

Home Sweet Home! I enjoyed doing some paperwork and cutting in the room on Saturday. 

I miss my pretty little workroom.

Reno Update Week Four

 One horrible window gone! The old one was cracked and dirty, worst of all it never opened.
Good riddance!

Can't tell you how totally exciting it is that this stupid window is H.I.S.T.O.R.Y. Wahoo!

 The Altman Contracting crew has too much fun!!

 What a great smile Irving has!!

 Framing it out!

 OMG!!! We have window! We have windows that open. What more could a girl need? 

No need to respond to that...

 So that's why it's been so darn cold in the studio.

 Creepy space about the studio.

 Hey! Where is my roof?

 We're missing some roof, but we have some windows!!! 

 New fascias will keep the critters out of my studio, now that is damn good thing!

Here was my big surprise for Don. I gave the guys the go ahead to add a really nice porch above the door to our bedroom. A nice upgrade from the nasty metal awning from the 1950's. That thing blew apart if you looked at it funny. Irving topped it with the recycled slate. Sweet!!!

Poor little sewing machine table, it's so darn lonely. My contractor, Sander, suggested that I take it in for a tune up while we where closed. That's one smart cookie. Meanwhile, what little sewing I've done it's been done on my home machine in the dining room.

It's so bright down there now. I can only imagine what it'll be like when we have lights again. The pot lights are going to be so bright that Nicole and I will have sew with our shades on.

 I've got the guys bringing me a big sheet of plywood so I can finally get the cutting table done.

Won't that be a treat?

The backyard is looking divine, it's okay, I know your jealous! 

It takes a lot of hard working guys to get your yard looking this good. 

 For the last month we have had five big guys on our roof so it was very sweet to have

 some little hands helping out. What cuties.

 Mud and tape cover up all the holes. Progress is a beautiful thing.

Next up? Lights!!!