Master Suite

Master suite BEFORE

 

 

Here is the master bedroom before we started working on it. All of these projects are kind of going on at the same time. Bedrooms, bathrooms livingroom and hall are racing along while the kitchen will be last, so I am trying to decide if it is better to post the room after it is all finished or in phases together: construction/remodel/repair first, filling paneling/drywall, then texture walls, followed by painting the walls then the floors.  So here is a preview of what is probably going to be my favorite room! 

 

 

 

 

These pics are taken standing at the entrance from the hall. The door on the right goes to the carport.

Sneaky lil photo bomber

 

 This counter and sink are just inside the room - or were. We took this out. The vanity knook in the spare bedroom is kind of cool.... this one not so much. The door next to the counter is the bathroom and the other door is the closet.

The bathrooms in this house had panel board walls... like in a trailer house with wall paper already on them and strips to cover the seams.... No idea why. It looks like they started to remodel and pulled up the old vinyl on the floors and the wall paper off of the panel board then stopped. 

 

Both of the shower inserts were in good shape, but we decided to take this one out and have a locker room style walk in shower.  

This became a joke - to photo bomb mom's pictures

 Behind the bathroom door is (was) a cabinet thing. with counter top only about 8 inches from the bottom of the top cabinet.... ? It is gone now also.

I outran her this time. But instead got Pawpaw

This is during the spackling phase. I discovered after doing the girls' room that drywall spackling is better than joint compound to fill the grooves in the paneling. It is more like a paste and does not shrink near as much as drywall mud. It is a little thicker and harder to work with, but after the first coat you can add water to it and do a skim coat that is much more workable. Sanding between coats is much less messy as well - spackle causes less dust YAY!

 

 

 

This is Shipp - totally unaware that he is about to be famous HEHEHE!

 

So, we had a change of plans once we got the shower inclosure out. I say we - David and Shipp - discovered a second drain in the floor, which was probably the origional. The bathroom had been extended into the closet for the shower stall and the cabinets behind the door took the space where the tub must have been. So they decided to extend the rest of the bathroom into the closet and make the shower twice as big! Two drains, two shower heads and an additional rain head from the ceiling. I am SO EXCITED!

For this room we got out the texture sprayer. That is the way to go! Much easier and thicker than you could do with a roller. The sprayer was not as messy as I anticipated. Definately worth the $60! I sprayed the texture in this room. Here's a tip: the hopper is really heavy. Let someone help you. 

 

I had been so excited to use the paint sprayer. I sprayed this room the day after the texture and I will say that I need some practice with that thing. But I am determined to be good at it. It's just going to take me a little longer on this than most other stuff. I love the color though!

Bathroom Vanity

 

This dresser has seen many many miles with the Owens family. It has been moved all over Texas all of my life and a lot of my dad's as well. I have always loved it and I am excited to give it a new home in the Crookes house! Here is the transformation:

 

before



during

 I used chalk paint and antiquing glaze

 

 

and several coats of polyurethane on top

 

 



Old Window Repurpose

The first picture is my first window project. Old wood windows from my parent's house repurposed into wall decor. This was a Christmas present for my sister. Had it not been for that I would have reconsidered this project.... I need a cricut! It's doable, but tedious. I printed the words from a Word document in large font, one word per page. Then taped it to under side of window. I used a paint pen, fine tip, to trace the letters. And traced again. And again. The used acrylic paint to touch up and fill in the letters. I found a wood cross at Hobby Lobby and traced the outline into the front, then painted it with acrylic paint. This part I kind of ad lib-ed. The first  cross I scrapped off and repainted. Then the next day I added to it and ended up redoing it again. It took a little experimenting to get result I wanted. Then I sanded the frame and used Valspar Antiquing wax to add the brown effect, and the knobs are from hobby lobby. I'm not very artistic, so it was a very grueling learning process lol. My sister loved it and my sister in law wanted one so I did one for her also. The second one was easier, but it was still a lot of work. (That's the second image) I decided to do her frame darker so I used a darker turquoise color and painted black chalk paint over it. I left if outside in the carport to dry and the next morning the dew caused all of my paint on the glass to run..... I had to scrape it off and start over. I wanted to cry! I went with a totally different design for the next one (the third image). Most all of the third one is printed from Google images and traced the same way as the first window I did. The dandelion and music staff and notes I did free hand. I enjoyed that, actually.  And my sister in law loved it. After my mother in law saw them she got me a cricut for Christmas! Yay! Next ones will be much faster.

The Princess's Bedchamber

This is the before picture of the girls' room. I've never seen grooves so deep in paneling before like what's in this house! I floated the room a couple of times with joint compound and sprayed kilz on ceiling and walls. Then I rolled texture on and painted the room grey. I felt like the needed some color in there so I had David pick up some turquoise paint - he did pretty good!

This is before we did the floor.

The. First picture above is the floor after Shipp (our carpenter extraordinaire!) Floated the feather finish layer of concrete.  It is almost the same color as the stain I picked out! We decided to go ahead and stain it the same color anyway to give it a more finished appearance.  The second and third are after the sealer was applied. Can't wait to get the trim and moulding on and start decorating in here!

Furniture refinish

This is a laminate covered coffee table I forgot I had. The wicker bottom shelf fell apart so I replaced it with thin veneer and faux tin tile. I used chalk paint and dark wax for frame and stained the top - which was almost a disaster.... don't stain fake wood! It did eventually dry and turned out fine.

Concrete floor MASTERS!

I got to stain the concrete floor in the living room! I really love how it turned out.  We originally planned to scrape and sand of mastic off of the concrete from the original vinyl tile, but our carpenter suggested a feather finish layer of concrete. He floated two layers (during and sanding between layers) and it looked amazing even before the stain. The color of the finish was almost exactly like the color of stain I picked out, which was Valspar semi-transparent concrete stain in driftwood. So David put the first coat of stain, driftwood, on the floor and about 4 hours later it was dry enough to walk on without shoes. I used a darker color - vaquero for the second coat and applied it with a texture sponge roller.