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Furniture

Wooden Trunk (part two)

Jessica Smith

Whew, this little wooden trunk is taking a lot of prep to get to the fun part. After two coats of Kilz primer (I’m gonna try the spray paint primer next time), I painted the trunk with two coats of Behr gray paint. I used Porpoise, which is the darker shade of gray that I painted below the chair rail in our dining room.

It looks really nice — sorry for the cruddy pictures, it was getting dark!

The inside of this little trunk was also rather nasty, so I painted this gray, too.

I am so excited to get home from work tomorrow so I can do the fun part of this project. I’ll give you a hint– it involves metallic silver paint 🙂 Woo!

Home Improvement, Paint

Two bathrooms in two days

Jessica Smith

I’ve been busy these past two days. I painted both of our upstairs bathrooms, one purple and one blue. For our guest bathroom, I used gothic amethyst.

We originally bought this paint for our bedroom, then we changes our minds at the last minute. I think it looks beautiful in our bathroom. I picked out a white shower curtain with white mats and towels. It’s very spa like!

For our master, I picked a light blueish green. I originally wanted to use this color in our family room, but both the hubby and dad said it would be too bright. I hate to admit it, but I think they are right.

I picked Behr’s Lime Light. I love it. If I were a color, this is the color I would be.

This bathroom is super small, so it didn’t take too long to paint. The hardest part was taping everything. Oh, and painting behind the toilets. F-U-N.

Anyway, I love our master bathroom. I picked out a, ivory, waffle-weave curtain (not in the picture since the paint is still drying). I LOVE IT.

I also bought paint for our family room and kitchen. For our family room we’re painting a shade darker than our master bathroom. We chose Behr’s Contemplation.

For our kitchen we chose Behr’s Sanctuary.

I’m sure the hubby will be excited to have a color other than blue in the house. Also, it’s definitely way greener in real life. It’s going to look great against our granite and cabinets.

All in all, I would say my spring break was rather productive. Guess what we’re doing this weekend… more painting! Aside from a sore finger, I’m not upset about that at all.

Home Improvement, Paint

Office update

Jessica Smith

As promised, here are photos of the office with its new, blue paint! It looks much better in person than in these photos.

**Side note: The hubby had to take these on his iPhone because my camera was missing its memory card. Dang. If I ever get my act together, I’ll post better photos.**

I went over after work to finish painting this nook. Thankfully, it didn’t take too long.

It’s pretty cozy in there! Here are a few more photos of the office:

Next step is to paint the lower half of the room white!

After I finished painting, the hubby and I went to Home Depot and Lowe’s to compare laminate flooring for our family room. We found three different floors that we really liked and we’ll choose tomorrow. *Fingers crossed that I remember my camera.*

We then proceeded to Best Buy to buy a dryer. Can I just say lamest purchase ever. There are so many other things I’d rather spend money on than  a dryer. Yuck. I hate laundry and I hate buying dryers. But, it needed to be purchased, so at least we can check that off our list!

Tomorrow evening we’re going to choose our flooring and material for a new hearth for the fireplace. Decisions, decisions.