A REALLY Long Day!

Why?? Because I've been awake since 3:45 a.m. I couldn't go back to sleep to save my life. So now I'm exhausted. On the bright side, I was ready for work early & I was able to go to the grocery store to pick up a few things & CVS. Thankfully, it's almost time for me to go home.

2 posts in a day doesn't happen often but I was able to get my pictures uploaded so I thought I'd share. Several months ago I asked my friends dad to build a corner cabinet for my formal dining room. I told him it was no rush & just whenever he got to it would be fine. Well, he finished right before we left for Disney. He came & installed it while we were gone. I was so excited to come home to this.

Merry Christmas to me!! It's exactly what I wanted! Keep in mind I just told him a corner cabinet & he did the rest. He matched up molding & built it the height of the entrance to my dining room & actually hooked it to the wall so it looks like it's always been there. You can't tell in this picture but it was just primed. The plan was to paint it the same color as the rest of the molding in the room. That's where Sherwin Williams came in. We bought our house when it was 2 yrs. old. The previous owner used all Behr paint colors but in Sherwin Williams paint. I learned the hard way that when you do that you can't go to Home Depot & buy the Behr paint in the proper color & expect it to match. Annoying. REALLY annoying. Have you bought Sherwin Williams paint lately? The stuff is expensive. Try twice as much as a gallon of Behr. Even with the 30% off it was still $40 for 1 gallon. We've painted the majority of our house since moving in 5 years ago & we've always used Behr & we like it. I haven't had any problems. So I paint the cabinet with the gold that apparently is Sherwin Williams & I CAN'T TELL A DIFFERENCE. I just don't understand why it's so much more expensive. Here's an after picture.

I know, you can't tell a  bit of difference but I wanted an after picture. Anyway, it's all painted & dry & now I just have to put the knobs on the cabinet doors & start filling up those shelves! I have 3/4 of a gallon of the fancy schmancy Sherwin Williams paint left. I will find something to use it on!!!

Toodles again!

Master Bathroom Redo

Finally!  I call this "Phase I". "Phase II" consist of me painting the cabinets. I hope that will happen in the next few months but who knows.

Here's a before picture. The door goes into our bedroom. It's a pocket door & I LOVE that! The paint is green. Kinda hard to tell in the pictures.

This is the bathroom from the door of our bedroom. Excuse all the stuff everywhere but I didn't remember to take the pictures until I had all my painting supplies out. Yes, that light fixture at the far end of the bathroom only has 2 globes as opposed to the 3 spots. The little plastic piece that holds the globe on cracked so we took it down before it fell. I'm sure that would've been during the middle of the night & scared us half to death because you know that's the only time stuff like that happens.

The window above my tub

Another view from the far end of the room.

This is a piece that my sis-in-law, Beth made & gave to us as a wedding gift. It's hard to see in the picture but it's really pretty in person.

Now the after.....

I painted the walls, put up new lights, spray painted all of the accessories (towel rings, bars, chair, etc.) & recovered the chair.  You can't really see the paint color all that well.

Here's a closeup of the lights.

I LOVE THEM!! I ordered them from CSN.

This is a better picture of the wall color. It's called Wooden Swing by Behr. I spray painted the Fleur de Lis oil rubbed bronze & then went over it in spots with Antique Gold craft paint.

I think the chair turned out really good. This was the first thing I've ever reupholstered. Dean helped me & it didn't take any time at all, once we got a staple gun.

The fabric has a lot of dark brown in it. I bought it at Hobby Lobby on sale. Here's my window over the tub. The curtains look so good with the new wall color.

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