Not Mrs.Jones: April 2011

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Board and batten really simple .

The first step to changing our son's room from this bright sunny yellow to a board and batten gray and charcoal was to put trim around the window. I love trim and will put it anywhere I can. None of the windows in our home have any trim around them so we add it as we go.
The window trim was $26.00 total. We borrowed a nail gun from a neighbor and my husband cuts the trim.

Then we added a chair rail. I wanted one with a ledge so we got this casing. The room is a 9x10 and it cost us $56 for all of the casing that we needed .

Then I got 4ft tall wood trim that I got from the trim and molding department. It cost almost $2 for one 4ft tall 2 inches wide piece of wood. It fits nicely on the base board with no cutting or trimming. We used 17 pieces $34.

This is my almost 16inch stick that I used to space the wood apart.

Then we paid painters because we are bad at painting and we hate to do it. The colors are Martha Stewart Sharkey Gray in a flat on top and I don't have the color name for the bottom because I left my sample at the store when I bought the gallon and the gallon doesn't have the name of the color on it.

Each gallon of paint was around $26.

Total $168 plus $200 for painters. I hate to paint but $200 to paint one room seems crazy. I wish I was good at painting because I would go into that business.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Home tour

Yay for Poppies at play

Check out all the lovely homes on the Parade of Homes tour.

This became our home as of May 2010

We made a lot of changes in the
Three years we have lived here.

our message on the front door

These wood art wood is from the Book East of Eden.

It is the hebrew word Tinshel.

This room was enclosed a year or so after we moved in.

It was open and we had nothing to do with the room.

I will not just have a sitting room that is for looks

but we enclosed the room and it has been an

office, my mother- in law's room and a playroom.

The playroom

The entry way

The Living Room

Then

Now

Calendar in frame with wedding date circled

Top pic from last year and bottom
pic is how it is now.

Adding the molding is in this post
http://wheelerthree.blogspot.com/2013/03/stair-case-make-over.html

New changes to the living room was this

photo gallery wall and the stair well.

We added a chair rail and painted
a dark brown on the lower part
of the wall. Then added shadow
boxes.

Stairs makeover

http://wheelerthree.blogspot.com/2013/03/stair-case-make-over.html

Hallway from living room to front door.

The dining room

The changes of the dining room since we moved in.

http://wheelerthree.blogspot.com/2011/01/ding-room-makeover.html

Dining room now

The half bath

One of our first home projects was adding a lower crown molding for this bathroom that makes you feel like you have fallen down a well. It is tight and talllll.