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Our House: These Chalkboard Labels Aren’t What You Think They Are
We just finished the wet bar in the family room at ‘Our House’, and I’ve had a lot of fun with the accessories. I already showed you how I installed the shelf with a vintage candy box and soda pop collection above the counter. (if you missed that, click here)
So for on the counter, I wanted just a few cute things, that I didn’t have to spend a bunch of money or time on. When I saw these retro jars at Target the other day, I thought, ‘perfect!’
This is what they looked like before the labels: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Cabinet Stencil Project
Right in the middle of painting my new wet-bar cabinets, I was contacted by Royal Design Studio to post a little something about their stencils.
Well, perfect timing! I wanted to add a little bit of something to the two cabinet doors, and they offered me to select one of their lovely stencils…
(yesterday I showed you some details I decorated on the shelf above the wet bar, click here if you missed that post)
I selected the Wicker Stencil because I thought it sort of mimicked the click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Details
Last time I showed you the fun before and after pics of our new wet-bar in the lower level family room at ‘Our House’.
To create loads of character in this corner, we built in new things, like the barn sash window and beadboard. But we also added in vintage or vintage inspired items too. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Finished!!!
Yay! The family room is done… finally! I’ve been working away on it, little bit by little bit for most of the winter. (I’ve still got a few projects to show you, but it’s is done!!)
I’ve worked on several different projects this winter/spring, from painting, to making a canning jar chandy, to getting a new sectional and creating a huge folding screen for it with vintage plantation shutters, making a new more neutral window treatment, and re-doing a table and chairs set I found on Craigslist, and installing a wide plank laminate floor, making a sign from old fence boards, re-doing a tennis themed folding screen, making numbered pillows, confessing my secret to an easy fireplace, and having a lot of fun moving around the furniture to create a sort of ‘Ralph Lauren meets 1900 Boy’s Club’ style room.
So here’s how and what I did in, what was once, this boring corner of the family room. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: A Fireplace with a Few Confessions…
In the family room at ‘Our House’ I recently installed a fireplace and brick chimney chase all by myself!
You maybe noticed it in this picture I showed you a little bit ago when I told you how I turned these plantation shutters I found on Craigslist into a giant folding screen behind the sectional.
Well, there on the right is the brick chimney and fireplace I installed, all totally on my own.
DIY Pillows… Count Your Pillows, One by One…
And in case you lose count… no worries, because they have numbers on them to help you out.
For these pillows I started out on my click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: DIY a Folding Screen… twice!
Several years ago I hastily made a folding screen… but I just re-did it:
The folding screen is in the family room at ‘Our House’ which I’ve been sharing with you how I’ve been re-doing that space a little bit.
Here’s how I re-did the screen: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Re-Doing the Family Room… One Section (al) at a Time!
Over the past few months, I’ve been working away at re-doing the family room. Previously, it was a colorful, cottage style space, with lots of color contrast…
Where the walls were green on the far right side of the space, I painted them click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Entry Gets a New Floor, and I Love It!!
When we bought ‘Our House’ 15 or so years ago, the lower level was unfinished. We spent that first summer getting it finished. Since then, though I’ve changed the wall treatments, furniture and light fixtures… (a few times) I haven’t changed the flooring. (not counting rugs)
We originally purchased really good quality flooring and since it’s a lower level family room, it doesn’t get beat up like a main level floor would.
However…
And that’s a big however! Even though it was still in great shape, I am sick of it!
The carpet part of the room is still fine. It’s super neutral and has a ‘cable knit sweater’ pattern to it that I still like. But the vinyl by the patio door, that’s a different story. At the time it was awesome, sort of retro styled, but I am just so sick of the green and pattern.
Yep! We decided to replace the vinyl with laminate, (ok… so who’s the ‘we’ in we? click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Canning Jar Chandelier
This canning jar chandelier was super simple to make, thanks to World Market!
Last year I wrote about the canning jar pendant lights I made for over the peninsula in the kitchen of the ‘Little Brick Cottage’ In case you missed that, here’s a quick pic of those: click here to read the rest of the story…
