Just another Friday night...

My sweet husband ended up being gone for the night, so what's a girl to do when she's home alone with 4 kids on a Friday night?  Why paint her kitchen, of course!

My kitchen hasn't been featured on here yet...I've done quite a bit of work in there, but nothing to write home about, but I'm so excited about the mini-transformation I did tonight.  Originally, it  had some precious country blue wallpaper & wainscoting to match the cabinets.  All signs of the 80's have been stripped away, but it has been pretty basic tan (one of 3 tans from the same family I've used all over the house.)




Since, for right now, I'm keeping the cabinets as is, I need to keep the paint on the lighter side to not make the room feel like it's caving in on me while I'm cooking.  I decided to step it up a notch, by adding some stripes using that same family of colors (lucky for me, I have extra of all those colors on hand, so this was an almost free project!)

How to:

• measured the entire wall and divided by 5...I knew I wanted large stripes which would be 3 of the original wall color and 2 to paint
• measured out all around the room and marked off with a pencil
• connected pencil lines with Frog tape
• checked and reapplied tape in a few areas...overall this method worked really well!

• took an almost dry PURDY brush and blotted all the edges with paint and then filled in (you could roll it, but I didn't feel like dirtying another thing to clean : ))

• immediately took off tape when finished
• touched up a couple areas

Really, this project took me about 3 hours (my kitchen isn't huge) and I even managed to make the kids some cookies mid-painting....ok, and clean up spilled milk. : )  I'm excited about finding some ways to add some color and pizazz to the busiest room in our house!  There will be more to come on this project!

Hope you enjoy!

Bathroom Remodel

after







before

This is our kids' bathroom and it was one of the last rooms to be touched in our house...probably because once I got around to it, I was so sick of stripping wallpaper.  But one morning this fall, Trey and the kids headed off to school and I decided to tackle it (oh and I sorta forgot to mention this to him ; )).

What was done :

• spray-painted gold mirror black
• sanded, primed, and painted the cabinets black (I already had the paint from another project)
• stripped the wallpaper, textured and painted walls (already had paint and texture)
• hit Ikea for cheap knobs/pulls ($1.99/6 pack of knobs)
• already had the tile (bought extra accidentally for our other bath - Score!)
• spent $100 to install tile (would've figured it out myself, but I was having a party that weekend and didn't have the time : ))
• ordered shower curtain from target.com (animal print was a MUST with my 7 & 9 and year old girls : ))
• shopped the house for frames and accessories
• picked up my towel bar and toilet paper holder at Wal-Mart of all places and I LOVE them...installed myself
• installed new electric outlets and light switches

 
I still have a few things I want to add to it...some hooks that hold towels better, maybe something above the shower,  couple pieces of trim, maybe a cheap counter top, and couple other little decorations.  I love the results I did on such a small budget and I've got a couple of really happy little girls with this makeover...love to hear your thoughts and ideas! ; )