Summer Projects 2015
consisted of many projects. One was the Dining Room.
The Dining Room had this wallpaper border of pine needles and pine cones along the top.
On the bottom the former owners had used plaster and paint to make little pine trees and bears.
Sadly (or is it?), I did not get a photo of that part because I was so excited to work on the
Dining Room that I forgot to take photos!
Here you can also see see my friend Heather working on tearing the border down.
When we bought the house one wall had mirrors with gold veins running through them on it. EW!
The house had been vandalized, so many mirror were smashed and there was a hole in the wall.
It was the first wall my Man (Gus) had fixed so it did not come out the best.
Unfortunately, when we started working on the house I did not think to get a photo of that wall before we started taking the mirrors down. Because of all the broken glass and for the safety of our children it was the second thing to go (after the horrible carpets).
These are photos of the all after the hole had been fixed.
(You can see the "first timer" patch job. But we got it all taken care of, you'll see!)
This is a photo of the 14 year old boy child being his usual, morbidly goofy self.
The Wall with Mirrors had a special makeover.
First, I painted the top 2/3 of it a gorgeous dark blue.
After one coat I then used the Venetian Plaster product from Lowe's (who does not pay me to tell you this, though I spend so much money there they probably should start thinking about it).
I chose a slightly off-white color for the plaster.
Heather is posing with my NEW TOY, a finishing nail gun. I let Gus use it for this project.
(I get to use it next time, whenever that is.)
This is after the first coat of plaster.
This is after the second coat.
The pictures do not do it justice. You can see blue through little "holes" in the plaster.
After 2 coats of plaster I put a glaze on the wall to protect the plaster from dirt and grime.
(I have always wanted to say "dirt and grime"! I am so glad that I was able to fit it in here!)
The other three walls had the top 2/3rd painted the gorgeous dark blue color.
I call this the Window Wall.
Then we have the Pocket Door Wall.
And the last wall I call the No Outlet Wall.
(I call it this because, guess what? It has no outlets on it! Bet that was hard to figure out!)
For the bottom 1/3 I decided to do beadboard, but...it was so expensive!
So I found this paintable wallpaper at Lowe's (I told you I spent a lot of money there).
I know, I know, the plaster wall still looks a little wonky, but it will get better, truly, it will.
The final part of this room was adding chair rail. This is where I let Gus us my new toy.
I think the gorgeous dark blue and the beadboard wallpaper with chair rail looks very striking.
Here is the final product:
2 other projects are done and will be posted in the next few weeks. The fourth and final project will hopefully be done by this weekend and the
Summer Projects 2015
will finally be done.
