New Trim Work

We had lots of fun putting up

new door and window

trim.

You know the lovely builders grade 

windows do not come with any

trim work.  So we added that.

Doesn't that look so much better?!

We used decorative corner pieces, 

not sure what the technical 

term is, but that's 

what is under the tape.  

We glued them 

so the tape is holding them on

until the glue dries.

We also wanted to add chuckier

baseboards.  But with 

the budget being what it is

we decided to follow the

lead of some fellow bloggers out there

and do some "pretend" chucky

baseboards.

We found a baseboard that matched 

the original, then my Handyman used a 

wood piece as a spacer and then 

nailed the new base upside down above the original.

 It might look funny at the moment

but wait for the magic of paint.

One last addition...

A 

MEGA

  shelf.   I am hoping that it will

bring some life to this boring wall.

 It is approximately 15ft. long.

The brilliant HH came up with 

the design plan.

He bought the long shelf.

(I wanted it to be at least 5" wide)

he also bought the 

crown molding to go under it.

But HH didn't like the amount of space

that was left under the shelf.

He felt like it was too much empty space, so...

He bought another piece of wood that he

stood up underneath the long shelf

behind the crown molding.

Does that make sense?

So, basically it is behind the molding 

and pushes it out so that there is not as much

space in the front.  It also offers a 

little dimension to the bottom of

the shelf too.

There is also a small wood rail 

placed on the top edge of the shelf to 

kind of act as a plate rail (so things don't fall off)

Is that a plate rail?


Oh, I almost forgot to mention,
we took the baseboard that supports the shelf
(the purple X)
and wrapped that all the way around the room.

Any who...

Now to prep for painting.

Why is the prep work always

so much more work than

the actual painting?

That drives me crazy!

Room Update

I have been so horrible at keeping up with my blogging updates!

Truly, we are about that slow with 

our

room progress as well.

So, first I'll try to take you around the room.

Here is the entrance to our

room.

 If you walk straight in you will see

this little short wall 

before the entrance to the master bathroom.
It's about 47" long.

We will skip past the bathroom for now.

(That redo will be next)

 On the other side of the bathroom door is 

this short wall.

It's about 70" long  The corner connects us
to the window wall...

The window wall is about 13 ft. long

 Then around the next corner is the long wall.

I call that the long wall because it's the only

wall with nothing on it.  No windows or doors.

You can also see that the vaulted

ceiling starts at that wall 

and because the vaulted ceiling carries

over into the bathroom, the wall opposite of this one

has an open shelf above the bathroom doors.

I don't have a picture of the whole wall.
 

 That brings us back around the corner,

Sorry no picture of this corner

this wall is about 8ft long before 

you get back to the door.

So all in all the room is about

15ft x 13ft

not the biggest of rooms, 

but not the smallest of rooms either.

What do we need to accomplish with this makeover of sorts?

We need some COLOR, some STORAGE and some

personality fused in.

After 16 years of plain white walls with nothing hanging on them, NOTHING!

Needless to say

I am very anxious for this to happen.

So, first things first we

(and by we I mean mostly HH

He likes to be in charge, it's a man thing I think)

Anywho I am getting ok with that.  REALLY, I am!

removed all of the door casings.

 Here are most of the old casings.

We are on our way now.

More to come
soon.
(pinky promise)