tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27151262074837268392024-03-18T20:24:53.756-07:00 the mint cottageMelindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-55760040542295299702015-04-07T15:46:00.001-07:002015-04-07T15:46:47.717-07:00Keep Portland WeirdOne of my best friend's birthday was a few weeks ago and since it was a big one, we decided to kidnap her for a day and take her down to Portland! It was a ton of driving and walking around and getting a little lost, but so much fun! I highly suggest doing a day trip with friends if you need to get away for just a little bit.<div>
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Some of the things we did:</div>
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We started out at Anthropology, believe it or not--I had never been there! And if I'm being honest, it was really disappointing. Not only were the clothes not a style I would want (they were on a safari kick) but the prices are seriously ridiculous. $80 for a scarf--on sale?! Ugh, I'm way too cheap for Anthro.<br />
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Right by Anthropology is Powells City of Books! SO AWESOME! I'm a huge book nerd and I was in heaven here! It is the biggest bookstore ever, and we barely made a dent in it! But I did walk away with a five book series for $15--score!<br />
(Don't mind my sense of humor, I wish they'd had more than two of these books, I know waaaay too many people who need it!) ;)<br />
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We ate at a cute little french restaurant for lunch--mmmm croissant...</div>
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In between shopping and eating, we stopped at the Portland Temple, which is gorgeous and smelled WONDERFUL with all the flowers blooming!</div>
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Then we went to Voodoo donuts, as you do. (We were a little excited about the donuts<br />
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Our last stop in Portland, the "Keep Portland Weird" sign. I think we succeeded.<br />
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Then on our way back up, we stopped at Target, to get some sodas and mess around. I swear when you get a bunch of moms' away from their kids for a day they're sillier than teenagers--we had so much fun!<br />
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So there you have it! Hopefully the next time I post, it will be with a project! haha</div>
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Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-35037524566405101852015-02-26T11:23:00.002-08:002015-02-26T11:27:04.510-08:00Life HappensWow. What a loser I've been! I've been wanting to do a bunch of projects but haven't finished anything for awhile...womp womp.<br />
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The previous owners of our house converted the garage into a finished bonus room. For the last two years, we've basically used it like a garage anyway, because if you don't have a garage what the heck do you do with your crap?? Well, thats been the project. I've been going through the back room trying to organize it and make it into some all purpose kids playroom, craft room, tv room, storage area without it looking ridiculous. At this point, it still looks kind of ridiculous...BUT it at least doesn't look like a garage anymore. Seriously, it was baaaaaad.<br />
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Proof:<br />
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Look at all that crap!! It got to the point where my kids would just throw stuff in there and shut the door really fast (kids/me whatever)...<br />
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Anyway, I've been working like crazy to get rid of stuff and organize and make it a space my kids and our family can use BUT its still not there. I have a few big furniture items I need to get rid off and its one of those things that I just don't think about on a daily basis. Because I'm lazy. ACTUALLY, theres another reason things have gone on hold for projects: his name is Blitz.<br />
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We got a puppy!<br />
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And as cute as he is and as much as I love him--that dog is rocking my world! Its like a mix of having a newborn who doesn't sleep but whines and howls all night and a toddler who doesn't want to potty train but instead pees and poops all over your floor, and a teething baby with alligator teeth that instead of just gnawing on stuff decides to chew the legs of your antique piano...<br />
He's lucky he's cute.<br />
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So anyway, hopefully soon I'll get back into my projects and will have something to update with! But for now, please wish me luck! ;)Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-72331956690427714702014-10-07T18:24:00.000-07:002014-10-08T13:14:21.223-07:00Halloween Contest!Hello friends! I haven't posted for awhile but thats because I was busy enjoying the summer and then school started and everything has just been CRAZY! But I'm hopefully getting into a groove and will be back to blogging! Phew!<br />
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So anyway, I just wanted to share about a halloween makeup contest. I don't want you guys to enter because I would like to win, but its part of the rules to blog about it so I am. ;)<br />
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I'm going to enter a few pictures from past years, but this has totally motivated me to try out some idea's I haven't done yet. I'm just gonna sit around my house looking all crazy--BUT hopefully I'll win so it'll be all good.<br />
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Anyway, you can read about the contest here: <a href="http://classycosmetics.blogspot.com/2014/10/halloween-statue-makeup-and-contest.html" target="_blank">Classy Cosmetics</a><br />
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Isn't Halloween the best?! I LOVE IT!<br />
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Me as a deer last year (my husband was Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty! haha)<br />
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And the year before we went as a ventriloquist and his dummy! So much fun!<br />
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Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-79193897654154007292014-06-06T20:06:00.000-07:002014-06-27T21:36:26.366-07:00Stovetop PotpourriSo for the last year or so, I've had a little pot sitting on my stove.<br />
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Its always on my stove, to the point where my husband made me go buy one special for this because I was taking away one of our other pots. :) I got this cheapy from Ikea for a couple bucks:</div>
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People come over and give me funny looks and ask me what I'm cooking because while some of it may look like food, it sure doesn't look appetizing! haha<br />
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What I've got cooking, is some potpourri! I love the way this makes my house smell, I feel like a lot of candles or sprays or plugins don't last very long and don't always make my whole house smell good. But the stovetop stuff really smells delicious, its super easy, and its like a built in humidifier that smells wonderful!<br />
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There's quite a few different recipes I've used and they all smell pretty great, but this is one of my favorites. You only need three ingredients: vanilla, lemons and rosemary. (I used fresh rosemary this time, but I've also just used spice rosemary and it works just fine.)<br />
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Just slice up your lemons, pour in a tablespoon or so of the vanilla, throw in the rosemary and fill the rest of your pot up 3/4 of the way with water. Voila! (tip: don't fill it up too high, when it starts to boil it will get everywhere or boil over and you don't want that mess!)<br />
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Then just turn your burner on. I usually turn mine up to medium high and after it starts boiling I turn it down to simmer.</div>
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After awhile the water will boil down, watch it so you can add more. If you leave it and forget about it all of a sudden the smell will get really strong and things will start burning soon. Not that I have experience with that at all...<br />
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This is what it looks like after a few times of it cooking: everything starts turning brown and/or mushy. Thats okay though, it still smells wonderful! Every once in awhile I'll put in a little more vanilla or some lemons or rosemary, whatever I think has cooked down too much and needs more. This will honestly last me for weeks and I LOVE it!<br />
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I'll post different "flavors" later on to share some of my favorites! Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!<br />
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linked up at <a href="http://tatertotsandjello.com/2014/06/link-party-palooza-hello-summer-giveaway.html#more-62630" target="_blank">Tatertots & Jello</a>Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-24804335556362859112014-05-22T16:47:00.001-07:002014-05-30T20:08:15.257-07:00BacksplashI thought a backsplash would really finish things off and tie in the sink color with the rest of the room. The nice part of this is that I still had the bead board wallpaper left over from the cabinets, and the wall color in my living room was an exact match for the sink. Score! So I wallpapered one night, painted the next morning, and then glazed that afternoon.<br />
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For Christmas this year my in-laws gave us a gift card to Lowe's so we could get a new faucet. The old faucet was crappy and broken and if you got the angle just right it would pop the whole handle off. We just dealt with it because...yeah. Cheap.<br />
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After they gave us the gift card it got the kitchen re-do gears really going. I had already bought the paint for the cabinets, and this made me want to go beyond just painting cabinets into really giving the whole kitchen a face lift. I thought, if we get a new faucet, I want to get a new sink (because the old one was very shallow, and let's face it, I have four kids and that equals a lot of dishes, and I'd like them to hide a little lower in the sink, if ya know whatta mean.) And <i>then</i> I thought, I don't want to get a brand new sink and faucet and put it on those crappy beat up counters! (There was a lot of thinking if you can't tell...)<br />
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So I <a href="http://themintcottage.blogspot.com/2014/05/kitchen-counters.html" target="_blank">redid the counters</a>. And in the middle of doing the counters, I had my brother in law come over and install the new sink.<br />
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But I'm getting ahead of myself! First off, I started searching through sinks online and trying to find one that would work and also be affordable. I started with stainless steel and moved on to looking at apron fronts (so beautiful...so expensive) then came across the acrylic sinks. Okay then, good prices, not very special but...thats when I saw a mint colored one and was like:<br />
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I briefly ran it by my husband, but who's kidding, I do all the decorating stuff and I make the choices... ;)<br />
This is the one I ended up special ordering from<a href="http://www.lowes.com/pd_248922-53721-76444_1z0xe30+1z10i6y+1z10vsl+4294696094__?ipTrail=24.19.22.191&productId=3239687&pl=1&selectedLocalStoreBeanArray=%5Bcom.lowes.commerce.storelocator.beans.LocatorStoreBean%4019751975%5D&currentURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_price%7C0%26page%3D3&storeNumber=2734&Ns=p_product_price%7C0&facetInfo=Drop-in%7C2.0%7CGreen" target="_blank"> Lowes</a>--it says its "sea foam" but its very much a minty blue. I was very happily surprised when I opened it up that the color didn't have any sort of olive green to it, which I was a little worried about.<br />
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So for just over $300, I'd say thats a pretty good deal and the fact that every time I look at it I grin like a fool, I say it was a good choice for me!<br />
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So what do you think? Is a mint sink crazy? Would you ever do a colored sink?<br />
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Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-56087352446831663802014-05-03T15:41:00.000-07:002014-06-27T21:46:53.820-07:00Kitchen CountersI've had quite a few different ideas of what I wanted to do to fix our counters. I sort of love butcher block and wanted to go that route for a long time. Ikea has a pretty great price for butcher block, but our counter has a weird section that made it so their's wouldn't be wide enough in just one spot. Plus, I was hoping for a little bit cheaper...<br />
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Then I came across this post about <a href="http://karapaslaydesigns.com/diy-ardex-concrete-countertops/" target="_blank">Ardex concrete</a>. And I was super excited about it! I thought concrete would look great and this seemed cheap as well. As I started looking into it, there was only one store that sells this and its about half an hour away from me and is open only a few days a week and at odd times...hmmm, okay I still think I can make it work...right?<br />
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Then I researched it some more and saw more reviews on it and while I still think it could be great, it seemed to be a LOT of work, and a LOT of mess and maybe not as cheap as I was thinking.<br />
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SOOOOoooooooo, then I saw <a href="http://www.oldtownhome.com/2011/11/3/Quick-Kitchen-Counter-Update---With-Textured-Spray-Paint/" target="_blank">this post</a> about spray painting your counters. And I decided this was the way to go.<br />
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Overall, this cost me maybe $50 for entirely "new" countertops. Do they look like concrete? Maybe in pictures but in real life it looks like we just got new formica or laminate tops. Which I'm okay with. :)<br />
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Also, because I had control over this, I did one side of our kitchen at a time. That meant that my entire kitchen didn't have to be a complete disaster zone and out of commission. Which was good because my family likes to eat ya know??<br />
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Anyway, on to the pictures! This is what it started out like:<br />
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crappy yellow-y tan counters from the 80's...<br />
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...and it was NOT me. It was the old owners, I feel bad things towards them.<br />
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also NOT from me.<br />
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Here's the materials I used- only the one can of primer, and I ended up using about four cans of the stone texture spray paint:<br />
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I sanded it down really quickly (I wasn't too worried about it since it was old and a lot of the shine had worn off already) and then taped everything off.<br />
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Here's what it looked like before I started spraying, I wanted to be sure the overspray from the spray paint wouldn't get everywhere.<br />
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This is after the primer went on, its still wet here. I only did one coat and wasn't worried about it being even or consistent.<br />
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This is after one coat of the textured spray paint:<br />
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After I got it all spray painted and evenly coated, I started on with the <a href="http://www.lowes.com/pd_456844-90-271771_0__?productId=4570128&Ntt=polyurethane+and+varnish&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Dpolyurethane%2Band%2Bvarnish&facetInfo=" target="_blank">polyurethane</a>. I read to use a water based one, because it won't yellow over time. I did like eight coats of this, you have to wait two hours between coats, so it took me about two days to do this. Nice thin even coats, not too hard just have to wait in between. I made everyone stay away from it and not use it hardly at all for about a week. My husband was not happy about this...he kept saying "WHATS THE POINT OF HAVING COUNTERS IF WE CAN'T USE THEM??" He's a little dramatic.</div>
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hint: Do you see my new SINK?!? Its MINT!! I will do a post on that next! Yay!<br />
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So I just wanted to give a little update/tip things: I had a friend who wanted to do this and we ran into a few snags. She was trying to get it done really quickly before she left on a trip (so then they would be off the counters the time they were gone), so we were rushing a bit. When we went to put our first coat of poly on it started streaking in spots because the stone spray paint wasn't completely dry. So PLEASE make sure its dried all the way. Also, if you don't have time and need to rush--don't do this project. :) So, I guess the only other tip I have is that you need to be a careful painter. If you have no experience with spray paint, practice on something else. You have to know how to evenly spray and not get drips and too heavy in spots. If you don't feel confident in your spray painting skills--ask someone else to spray for you okay? And just make sure you really make the poly coats thin and even. Hope that covers it, if you have any questions please ask in the comments! I'm happy to answer anything you might think of. :)</div>
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My sister and I ;)</div>
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My sweet friend who looked so dang cute!<br />
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So this year, after seeing the awesome pictures from the <a href="http://justinhackworth.com/blog/2013/glam-lumberjack-jam/" target="_blank">Glam Lumberjack Jam</a> in Utah I decided I HAD to do it too! Just too much fun!</div>
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We had themed food to go along with it, things like sausage and flap jacks and bacon maple cupcakes--and of course lots and lots of treats!</div>
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We played games like this one--you have to pick the box up with your mouth without touching the ground with her hands or anything else, the box gets progressively shorter--very funny!<br />
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We also had a campfire outside to roast marshmallows, I love fun parties!!<br />
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What about you? Are you a dress up kind of gal or do you hate it?! :)<br />
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I think the little details are what make decorating special and all yours. I love collections and just happen to have a few kitchen related collections! For about five years now I've collected antique rolling pins, I LOVE them! I finally decided on how to display them and looked high and low for a wine rack that would work. I could not find ANYTHING! So I finally ended up ordering a towel rack off of Amazon for around $35. More than I wanted to pay but it was exactly what I wanted.</div>
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The only two pins that aren't antiques are the top two little ones, they're just children's pins and I got them especially to fit on the rack. :)<br />
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I also was given by my grandma her spoon collection. I have such great memories of playing with these spoons and admiring them when I was young, and now my kids do the same! Its too fun! I decided to keep the original wood on the display rack as opposed to painting it because there is so little wood left around my house, most things get painted! So I wanted to keep some wood tones around.<br />
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I also love to collect cake plates, pitchers and candy dishes--my mom gave me a cute curio cabinet to store them in:<br />
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These things make my home personal to me and so much more special, I can't tell you how often I stand by those spoons looking at them and re-arranging them and admiring them! haha (My husband thinks I'm weird...)</div>
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<b>Whats personal in your home? Do you collect anything?</b></div>
Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-1863493381274549822014-03-14T17:20:00.000-07:002015-04-09T09:17:35.868-07:00Glazing Kitchen CabinetsGlazing the cabinets wasn't hard, just time consuming. VERY time consuming. The glaze I used was given to me, but its Valspar antiquing glaze in 'Asphaltum.' It was a little dark for me so I just added some brown acrylic paint until I got the color I wanted. To do ALL of the cabinets took very little glaze. I put it in a little styrofoam cup and it was maybe halfway full, thats it.<br />
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I do have to say that I'm pretty sure you could do the same thing with just acrylic craft paint watered down a bit.<br />
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I ended up painting it on the spots I wanted, and going over it with a damp rag, I had two rags that I switched back and forth with so I didn't have to rinse out a rag as often.<br />
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This is what it looked like when I was painting the glaze on:<br />
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I just used a small craft paint brush. By the time I got done adding the glaze it was dry enough to wipe off. If I didn't let it dry for a minute or so, it would just wipe completely off. Which was frustrating.<br />
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Here's a comparison of glazed vs. unglazed:<br />
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After I went over all of them and added to or messed with it until it was where I wanted it, I did go back over some of the cabinet with the original white, just to tone it down or to make some of it look smoother.<br />
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I also very lightly did some glazing to the red, it doesn't show up as well, but it does make a difference in person.<br />
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In the pictures it looks a lot more... dirty? than it does in person. It also picks up the colors weirdly in pictures, it almost looks like the top cabinets are kind of pinkish, which they're obviously not. But I actually really like the glaze and how much depth it adds to the cabinets and the bead board.<br />
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So what do you think? Have you used glaze before? Would you paint your cabinets?Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-75555424519077828712014-03-05T17:02:00.000-08:002014-05-09T14:46:56.498-07:00Painting Kitchen Cabinets<br />
I decided awhile ago that I was going to paint my cabinets. After searching and researching and finally settling, I decided to go for a two toned cabinet. Our local Sherwin Williams store was having a sale and so I went in and told the guy what I wanted to do, and he suggested a semi-gloss interior/exterior acrylic paint. I got it in Stolen Kiss (7586), and the upper cabinets I used the same as my wall color which is Olympic satin Love Bird (c30-3)--it kind of tickles me that both colors are all cutesy lovey, makes me happy!<br />
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Before I painted the cabinets I decided I wanted to put some bead board wallpaper inside the inserts. I really could have been more precise with cutting the squares but its a messy process and I was just wanting to get it done. After I put the paper in and it had dried for 24 hours, I went back in and caulked the edges to fix any edges that weren't even and also to make sure it wasn't going to come up EVER. :)<br />
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Then I started with the red paint, it was going on the bottom cabinets and up one side where they weren't separated.<br />
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Then I got started with the white up top:<br />
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The range hood looks ridiculous now up against the white--don't worry I'm going to take care of that!<br />
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After I finished painting, I decided I wanted to glaze them and lucky for me my cousin had some leftover glaze she wasn't using. Next update will be that!<br />
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This is just something that I think is fun to spice up your kitchen walls. Luckily for me, this project was totally free because my mom gave me every single one of those plates. Plus I had the wire and felt on hand.<br />
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First I just took copy paper and traced around each plate I wanted to use, I then taped them up on the wall and played around until I liked it.</div>
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Then I took some wire I already had and twisted it in a hook like this in the amount of plates I had.<br />
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And cut pieces of felt for each plate as well.<br />
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Then out came the glue gun and each piece of wire and felt was attached to the back of a plate.<br />
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Then all I had to do was leave the papers on the wall, and nail right where I wanted them, ripping the paper off after the nail was already there. Pretty simple. I wasn't worried about gluing things to the plates because I was never going to use them for eating. I wouldn't use this method on your fine china or plates from your great-great grandma.<br />
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Finished look :)<br />
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You can find cheap china plates at your local thrift store and make this a fairly cheap project with a big impact! Mine are monochromatic, but I think all different colors is beautiful too!<br />
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Some examples:<br />
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I'm going to do this in a lot of different posts until I can show you the total transformation (because its not done yet...) and for now, we'll just start with something easy: introducing you to the kitchen.<br />
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The kitchen is a galley style kitchen, which means basically its small, and has cabinets on either side of a little aisle type thing...does that make sense? A lot of kitchens are open, or have a 'working triangle', mine does not. It has a dining area off one side, and a sort of nook off the other. Here's some pictures for reference:<br />
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These two pictures above face each other--right and left side of the kitchen.<br />
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This is the little nook area.<br />
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This shows a little of where I'm starting now, basically I've painted the walls:<br />
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I wish the pictures did that red justice. It was <i>truly</i> ugly. It wasn't just a deep red, it had a very purple/wine tint to it and was just so dark and unhappy. And I love red usually, but no. It just didn't work and I couldn't believe how big a difference just putting white in there did!<br />
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<br />Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-60985258279751795402014-01-01T15:22:00.000-08:002014-04-28T15:23:08.378-07:00Christmas DecorJust for fun, I thought I'd share some of my Christmas decorations! I try to mix things up each year--have the same classic ones but add different crafts as well. I love homemade decorations and a lot of the ones our tree my mom made when I was a little child or we've had since our first Christmas twelve years ago. Almost every year the kids bring home a new decoration they made at school so we add that as well! :)<br />
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I'm obsessed with bottle brush trees! They make me so happy!<br />
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This Christmas village my grandma gave me when I was young, it comes out every year!<br />
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I love these bells jingling every time we open the door.<br />
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Just thought it would be fun to add the Christmas picture we sent out this year. :)<br />
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<br />Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-55862459463002151172013-10-17T14:24:00.002-07:002013-10-17T14:24:25.806-07:00Family PhotosIsn't it fun to get new family pictures?! Well, the process isn't always the best but getting them and seeing them is pretty great! :)<br />
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I like to do photography on the side, its one of those things that feels like instant gratification. I used to love to paint and draw but having four kids isn't really conducive to painting! haha But now, I can take out a camera and click: instant art! Anyway, the point of this is that sometimes it's hard for me to want to pay people for pictures because I know how to do it and have the equipment and all that. So my cousin asked me to take some pictures of them at the pumpkin patch and would take some pictures of us there as well. Win/win and done.<br />
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My kids weren't really feeling the pumpkin patch, so we went home and took a few more individual pictures in the backyard. Its really nice that my oldest is getting to the point where I can explain what I want her to do and things turn out pretty well--most of the time! ;)</div>
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I don't know about you but since I'm the "photographer" for most things there are rarely any pictures of me! Sometimes I wonder if my kids will be sad when I'm old because there aren't any pictures of their mom! ;) So I had my husband take a few pictures of just me--which is difficult because the man has no concept of crop or how to put someone in the center of a picture! haha<br />
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Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-636558360886585342013-05-28T14:54:00.001-07:002014-05-17T15:15:52.107-07:00Quick and EasyOur "entertainment center" is a bookshelf type table from Ikea. We got it so long ago that they don't even sell it now. :/<br />
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Except all the squares are even instead of small on top. You get the point. </div>
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Anyway, if you can tell from that, its an open back and that means when we hook up all our tv and dvd and surround sound and all that junk, there's a lot of wires going on.</div>
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Previously my solution was to tape all the wires going down the back along one of the shelf pieces so you hopefully couldn't see it. I got a lot of the wires that way, but there were still a few that just couldn't be tamed:</div>
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It was making me kind of crazy and one day an idea just popped right into my wittle head! I ran out to the store and bought some poster board and a gold paint pen and came home and got to work! I used three full poster boards (luckily, standing tall side, they fit exactly into the spot! I didn't measure because I like to wing things and hope they work out.) plus one little strip of a fourth poster. (Oh, and by poster board, I don't mean thick foam board. I mean a measly flimsy piece of paper thats big--I'm cheap.) And I used up one whole paint pen and then about half of another. </div>
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So I just grabbed one of my kids old cups and started making polka dots. I didn't measure them out perfectly, I just eyeballed it. I didn't think it would really matter if they were perfect, especially since I have decorations in the cubbies that would break up the pattern anyway. I suppose if you're a really big perfectionist it might bother you, so do this according to how well you'll be able to sleep at night. :)</div>
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This is the cup I used--little mermaid!</div>
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Are you ready for the after!?</div>
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I super love it, its amazing how much interest and fun it creates!</div>
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Here's a few different shots to give you a better look, enjoy!</div>
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I thought it would be fun though to post some before and after pictures so far of what we've gotten done, since I've been so horrible about actually blogging the projects!<br />
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The before pictures are from the MLS listing, so the furniture is from the old owners, etc.<br />
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This is the front room, the door on the left side is the front door.<br />
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This is the same room, just from the view of the front door. This is what you see when you first walk in:<br />
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This is one side of the kitchen, not a real big difference I just painted over the red. I wish the pictures did the old color justice, it was a very deep red almost purple wine colored. And very ugly. :)<br />
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And this is the half bath:<br />
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There weren't a ton of MLS pictures, so I can't do a before and after on everything, but its still kind of fun to see! :)Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-79633839725876318472013-02-08T15:26:00.001-08:002013-02-08T15:49:29.196-08:00Some of This and Some of ThatNo real tutorial posts, but I have been doing a bunch of projects in the house. Some of the things I've done:<br />
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*painted a chevron type wall (in the living room as well)</div>
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*got new beds in the girls room</div>
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*painted an old frame and added a saying inside</div>
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Next up, I'm painting a chalkboard wall in my family room and I need to paint over these horrible deep red/wine colored walls in my kitchen! Trying to get the oomph to do it but I cut my pointer finger up last night making dinner and not really feeling it! Boo. Just over two weeks ago I also tripped down our stairs and beat my foot up pretty good. Do you think these are signs I need to take it easy?? Doesn't matter if they are, I declared to my husband that February was going to be "PROJECT MONTH" and we were going to get stuff done!! ;)</div>
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Although I feel good about what we've done so far, I really want to get all the boxes unpacked and it just feels impossible sometimes! I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret (I'm pretending like I have any followers or that anyone reads this at all, it makes me feel better): sometimes I get so sick of craft blogs because the houses are huge and beautiful and have great details and it seems like the bloggers must have an endless supply of money because holy crap, how do they pay for all these projects?!?!</div>
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So I'm hoping you can come on a little journey with me. I have a normal house. It was built in the 80's. It has ugly blue carpet upstairs and ugly gray burber carpet downstairs. Its not big at all and it doesn't have a ton of architectural details. Its pretty much just small square rooms and thats it. We don't have a ton of extra cash laying around and so I have to get pretty freaking creative about how to do stuff. And also, the Goodwills around here suck. I mean seriously, they suck. They are ridiculously overpriced and they pretty much have no great crap. I miss Utah's thrift stores like you wouldn't believe. So, if you want to come along with me and see what its like to have to fix up an old ugly house, that maybe is closer looking to yours. I would love that. :)</div>
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I'm done with feeling inferior to other crafty type bloggers and I'm not going to compare my house to their's any more, I'm just going to keep plugging away and keep track of what I've done here and hopefully I can help other people in the same boat as me.</div>
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I love Christmas decorations! I try really hard to have sentimental decorations, ones I've had for years and most of my tree ornaments are ones my mom made when we were babies or my great grandma crocheted! I love these because Christmas for me is all about traditions, so to use decorations that mean something to me is the best! Some of my favorite things this year:</div>
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I ALWAYS love seeing everyone's cards and displaying them somewhere we can see them all the time!</div>
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A live wreath is awesome, smells so good! And I loved hanging these bells on the doorknob, and hearing them jingle every time the door opened and closed! So merry!<br />
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I've had this Christmas village since before I got married, it goes up every year.<br />
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My mom collects nativities and has some amazing ones, she found this one and gave it to me. I love that it has a little drummer boy, so cute!</div>
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And the reason I love Christmas the most: making it special for the kids! haha<br />
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<br />Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-17515419638096406002012-11-02T18:16:00.000-07:002012-11-05T10:21:36.024-08:00The Painting of The Girls' RoomWhat an adventure its been trying to get this house put together! It seems the same problem keeps happening:
I think a project will only take so long, and I really should just double it. ;)<br />
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I've been working on the girls room for a while now and have run into a few hiccups. First up, I decided not to prime over the light turquoise walls. My thinking was that the white paint had covered the darker turquoise in the boys room, and since I was doing yellow, it would cover easier right??<br />
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What really happened was that it took four coats and the entire gallon of paint to cover three walls (basically two because one wall is just around the closet, not hardly any wall to cover). I would start painting and it would look like it was covering so well and as it started to dry, the turquoise and the yellow would blend into a weird greenish yellow. :/<br />
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Finally I went out and bought another gallon of paint, this time a lighter yellow. I had picked out a sort of mustardy yellow and I wasn't loving it. This time I got more of a butter yellow and I think its perfect!
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Here's the before, and aaallll that minty color. Once again, the old owners decided to paint EVERYTHING, including the baseboards, the windowsill, inside the closet, even the closet ceiling! What fun they were!! *strong sarcasm here*<br />
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Here's the start of the yellow:<br />
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Here's after the new yellow gets going:<br />
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The last wall I wanted to do something fun for, and decided on stripes. So I got smart and used primer for that one! haha Then I did a coat of regular white and then I started measuring. I wanted the wall split up in three sections, so I measured the wall, did the math and made three vertical lines. Then I measured the height of the wall and split up how wide I wanted my stripes to be. I decided on three inch stripes, so I made little tick marks every three inches all the way up the lines I originally did.<br />
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Then I started taping, I just laid one end of the tape on a mark, pulled it tight and lined it up with the mark at the other end, then pushed it all down flat (if that makes sense?). The lines are definitely not perfectly straight but I don't think its noticeable at all. Especially once there's furniture and pictures on the wall it will be even less.</div>
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(this is where I ran out of tape.) (the little white lines are where my tape isn't quite wide enough to go the full three inches, why do they make tape 1.4 inches wide? Thats dumb.)<br />
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Here's the gray going on. Did two coats of that.<br />
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And here it is with the tape all off:<br />
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See I don't think its that easy to tell if any lines aren't perfectly straight! But I think it looks so fun! What do you think? Would you take on a stripe wall?<br />
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Can't wait to show you the finished room! Yay!<br />
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When we moved, I had planned on using the desk for my computer desk instead of the crappy old thing we had from Walmart. ;) I started spray painting it before the move but life got in the way and I didn't finish. So a day or so after we moved in, I hauled it outside and finished it--I needed my computer guys!<br />
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Here's the before:<br />
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(yes, that is an old carseat...)<br />
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You can't really tell here, but those three panels are leather, not wood. Pretty cool if you ask me!<br />
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Good looking knobs even!<br />
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I love this key hole, I just think its so darling!<br />
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The color is Pistachio (from Krylon), and I think its so cheery!<br />
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Gotta show that key hole again! ;)<br />
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Here's the leather panels, I think they're such a cool detail!<br />
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One more shot. The chair has been beat up over the last year, so now the desk will get a little distressing to match!<br />
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Of course, now it has all my computer stuff set up on it, and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to hide all the wires, but I still LOVE it!<br />
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What do you think? What color would you have chosen?
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It was a short sale, so of course that means it was a long process and I'm just so glad to be done with it! Meanwhile, we've been installing and upgrading and redoing as many things as we can! One of the projects I worked on last week was my boys' room. Here's some pictures of the process:<br />
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I started painting at night so thats why this is so dark, but this is the "before"--which means, turquoise. Turquoise walls, baseboards, even the window sills. Sheesh, it was a lot of turquoise! :)<br />
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Here it is with the white on the bottom. It took at LEAST three coats of a paint/primer in one to cover it. In fact, I used the entire gallon of paint on this room!<br />
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The top part got two coats of a navy blue, and then the carpets were pulled out. Did you notice them in the other pictures? They were blue. A very 80's blue. And gross. So glad to have them gone!<br />
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So we're down to the subfloor. Which is just plywood. My original plan was just to paint the plywood. When I pulled back the carpet, guess what I found?! A whole bunch of overspray from the wall texture on all the edges of the floor! Isn't that just lovely?! So pulled the carpet out, removed the tack strips and all the staples (this took a long time!). Right now would be a good time to check for squeaks. If you step down and its squeaks, put a screw in there.<br />
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This is the doorway, you can see a little bit of the overspray but also a nice wire coming out of the middle of the floor! Another not expected surprise! At that point, I thought I wouldn't be able to use the subfloor and went out and bought MDF to cover the whole thing. Later I checked out that wire--yeah, it was cut and didn't lead to anything. So I COULD have pulled the wire out, patched the whole and used the subfloor as is. BUT, then I would have had to sand all the overspray off, pull off all the baseboards and re-attach them 1/2 an inch lower. I also like the thought of having a little bit thicker floor, just seems sturdier to me!<br />
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So I went out and bought four sheets of MDF. Now, here's my disclaimer: this probably isn't the best choice for flooring. It would probably be better to get plywood at the very least (I've seen tutorials about painting plywood floors, like <a href="http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2011/01/24/diy-stencil-painted-subflooring/" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://quarryorchard.blogspot.com/2010/12/plywood-to-plank-flooring-tutorial.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I was on a super tight budget and just trying to make things work. In a couple months I'll let you know how well its held up ok? :) So the sheets come in 4 ft by 8 ft, and I had the guy at Lowe's cut them in 4 ft by 2 ft planks. After I got them home I laid them out and had to make some extra cuts. It was actually kind of fun, like putting a puzzle together! Then after I had them all laid out, I nailed them all down. Probably would be a better idea to screw them down, but I'm gonna be honest, I'm kind of lazy. :) (And yes, I did hit my thumb at least twice--ouch!)<br />
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The boards didn't fit in 100% tight, so I had to fill in a couple small gaps--either my boards weren't totally straight or the walls aren't. :)<br />
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After that I painted on a layer of primer, and then a layer of white porch paint. Here's my tip for painting floors: don't use white. I've already noticed as soon as you step on it theres a foot print. They will be much harder to keep clean!<br />
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So then I painted on navy stripes. I wanted to do this the whole time and thought it would add such a fun detail to the room. I'm going for a nautical theme and it just seemed perfect. This also helps with the dirty factor, footprints don't show up on the navy! So I did two coats of the navy and two coats of the white porch paint.<br />
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And this is what happens when you're too liberal with your paint-- it bleeds under your tape. Another tip: if you're a sloppy painter, don't do stripes! haha In all honesty, you do need to be careful when you want a nice line, putting on too much paint is going to cause things to bleed and then you'll have to go through and touch it all up again. Also if you notice, my tape pulled up some of the paint--thats why you wait until your paint has COMPLETELY dried before you put tape on it! :)<br />
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So that is the tale of the boys' room floors! Hopefully it will give you some ideas if you are on a tight budget of what you can do! I will be posting a complete finished look soon but I still need to hang pictures and finish up last touches! Look forward to it!<br />
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Obviously I'm new to blogging my "process" because I forgot to take a before picture. :)<br />
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Here's after I started painting it:<br />
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Here's the base of it so you can see it was just a tan metal, kind of scratched up:<br />
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One coat on the top--I didn't even sand this. Its not going to be touched a lot, I'm not worried about the paint getting scraped off. Maybe if I get sick of the color it will be good and the paint can come off easily! haha<br />
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It took about three light coats to really cover it, super easy. I thought it really added something extra fun to paint it turquoise. Honestly I love it!<br />
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See you can get something from the thrift store or something old laying around in your parents basement and make it into your own awesome lamp no one else in the world has! :)<br />
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My sisters-in-law put together a girls weekend (along with my mother-in-law and two nieces) about four hours from where we live. I sat every night looking from our balcony out at the amazing view of the ocean, and I wondered if the people who live there ever get used to it and stop looking--don't even notice it anymore. It was so calming, so beautiful; I can't imagine ever thinking it was "blah" or just "whatever", it was amazing. Period.<br />
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I could sit with my toes buried in the sand, staring at the ocean for hours. I could pick through the shore looking for shells until its dark out. I could splash through waves (even if they're freezing) forever. I just love it.<br />
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So to cap off this tribute to the ocean, I'll show you the amazing beauty I was able to enjoy this last weekend: here's some pictures for your own viewing pleasure. :)<br />
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<br />Melindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715126207483726839.post-25000846684713175602012-08-30T18:20:00.002-07:002012-08-30T18:39:17.251-07:00InspirationI know ya'll are on <a href="http://pinterest.com/mellassen/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, so I don't even need to go into detail about it. But I thought it would be fun to show some of the inspiration I have going into decorating this new house. This is what I'm feeling:<br />
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Isn't Pinterest the BEST?!! Anyway, thats just an inkling of what I'd do in the living room, I have boards for bedrooms and the family room and about 50 others...<br />
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