Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Weekend Projects


Last weekend Brad finished putting the handles on the kitchen cabinets and did our flower mural in the bedroom! We are so glad that we had those stencils made (thanks Matt & Nate!) and we were able to use spray paint this time!


Our Favorite Color!

Bedroom: Before





Bedroom: After - we used our favorite Blue Color. We have used this color in 3 different apartments.



Monday, January 26, 2009

Living Room

Living Room: Before - In pictures, this paint color doesn't look much different, but in person it looks a lot more fresh!


The paint color difference - more crisp & fresh

Living Room: After


All done - some of these walls are 15 feet tall and I had to rig up many different ways to paint the corners and the very top where the wall meets the ceiling

View of the living room from the kitchen area! I'm so glad that half of our place is brick - it looks nice and we don't have to paint!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Kitchen Redo

I've been meaning to post for the last couple of weeks, but I just haven't gotten around to it! So this week I'll try to do a few posts to update! Our new place is coming along and we are planning on moving at the end of next week! Here's a look at the kitchen so far:

Kitchen before:
There were no cabinet fronts on the top cabinets, so we thought we could just replace the fronts. Then we found out it was less expensive to get all new cabinets from IKEA and our project got a little bigger!

Top cabinets removed

Cabinets all down

Kitchen painted in "Shakespeare"

Some cabinets up and microwave in place!

All cabinets up - Brad did such a great job!

Cabinet fronts and handles all done

Handles removed and holes filled with wood filler

Bottom cabinet doors primed and ready for paint


Bottom cabinets painted with "Creek Bend" - Thanks Joe & Carolyn for letting us borrow your paint color!

Bar all painted and almost done - we're putting the hardware on this weekend and will eventually replace the refrigerator and stove in the next few years!