Pane in the Glass

So maybe that's a little harsh. Replacing the solid wood doors to our home office with french doors wasn't that difficult. It was just tedious and repetitive. 

Original door

New door

Sand, paint, sand, paint, wait a day (okay a week, we're busy people with day jobs) for the paint to dry.

Flip.

Sand, paint, sand, paint.

Multiply all this fun by 2.

Hang.  We cheated and had our contractor, SuperTony, do this part. Lessoned learned from our first house that there are some tasks worth hiring out.

Tony was able to reuse the original glass knobs from the old doors on the new ones. 

Then I added another coat of paint to both doors. When the paint dried, I began the tedious process of removing the plastic film off of each pane. First I scored the edge of the glass to break the paint seal, then gently peeled it away. 

Two panes down, only 58 more to go...

Ta Da!

This wasn't a project that needed to be done, however, they make our recently renovated home office a little more interesting. 

Linking to

DIY Reupholstery

Shut UP. Is this not the best idea ever?

This old chair went from looking like this:

to this

With a little help from some decorative nails and JC Penny.

Full instructions at Three Boys

Home Office After

If you've been following along as I was renovating the home office last week, then this is the moment you have been waiting for...

Our home office went from looking like this

To this

From this

To this

What do you think? 

Foyer After

 These are the blood and guts of the new chandelier I chose for the foyer. I naively assumed it would arrive already assembled.

It took about 2 hours to hang all the crystals on that sucker.

It took another 2 hours (and a lot of inappropriate language) to hang it.

 We said a little prayer that the house wouldn't burn down and turned the electricity back on. So far so good...

Here's a reminder of what the foyer looked like before:

And here is what it looks like now: 

Now if only little elves will sneak in during the middle of the night and paint all the trimwork bright white.

Master Bedroom After

Ahhhhh, heaven.
That's how it feels after finally spending a night in our new bedroom after nearly 8 weeks of tearing down wallpaper, repairing plaster, painting walls and trim, and installing crown molding. Bye bye yacht club, hellooo Hotel Hazard.
Here's a reminder of what the room looked like before:

And now...

Before...

And now...



Before...

And now...

Landscaping Before and After

One of the most noticeable changes we've made so far has been to remove the overgrown shrubbery in front of the house and replace it with new plantings.

This is what it looked like when we bought the house...

after...

before...

after...

 



Master Bath Before and After

Finally!

A master bath was on our list of "must haves" when we were searching for a new house.

We have one now on Hazard Ave, but it was decorated back when we were in grade school.

I will say that one of the things that attracted us so much to this house is all the charm and character it has. How many showers have you been in that has a window in it? How many of those windows are tilted???

We have a lot of projects to get to and limited funds. While we would love to gut this bath and spend a million dollars to make it exactly how we want it, we're settling for a mini reno right now so we can enjoy it right away. By taking down the wallpaper, painting the walls, replacing the vanity and fixtures, and taking out the brass shower door, we can make this bathroom livable until we can afford to do it right 5-10 years down the road.

Here's what it looks like after Chris spent an entire week working on it:

That man is a miracle worker.