Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Amazing What a Little Paint and New Hardware Can Do

It's interesting to find that once you FINALLY have a home you realize that the list of "to do" projects is really never ending. Kelly and I have decided to break up projects into rooms. Our goal is to complete a room in a weekend. Yesterday our goal was our Master Bathroom. A few things that needed to get done was touch-up painting, baseboards, caulking, painting cabinets, putting a wood border around our mirror and installing new faucets. Originally we thought this was going to be a 6 hour job so we designated Saturday to get everything done. Plans got a little distorted when we decided to let the missionaries come over and wash their car....Kelly got them to do a little service for us and had them install the ceiling fan we bought months ago in Hunter's room. Then Kelly asked me if I wanted to see Eclipse....ahhh, yes! He is dying to see Predators but because he promised to see Eclipse with me he said we needed to get Eclipse out of the way so we could see Predators. So we got as much as we could done on Saturday. We finished all of the painting and got 1 faucet installed. Yesterday we installed the last faucet, put up the cabinet doors and it looks amazing. When you can't really afford to put in new cabinets it's nice to know you have other options as cheap as a can of paint. So, here are a few before and after photos.

Before:

After: (We also got new knobs and a drawer pull. The other ones were so ugly. Love the brushed nickle look)

Before: You can't tell from this picture but the knobs actually turned the wrong way when you needed to turn the water on. I think this might have been the way they were designed but why would you design something to turn a different way than what EVERYONE is used to? We have lived here for 5 months now and the day we took them out I would still try to turn it the "right" way.

After: So glad I can turn the knobs in the "right" direction now to turn the water on. And it looks so much more beautiful than the other faucet head.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get to the baseboards or the border around the mirror. Regardless, it was a successful project weekend!

1 comment:

kerrfam6 said...

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful!