BEFORE
Still needs ALL the finishing touches, but… Here she is...
See told you... my husband is AMAZING
and yes he hand made all of those crates.
12 February 2013
Craft Room...
Lots of progress and it is looking FABULOUS!!!
Check out those Gorgeous, Handmade baseboards my AMAZING husband made for me :)
He is the only reason ALL my ideas ever turn into reality. He somehow manages to create about everything I can dream up. And to do this he has to be able to see the ideas mostly in my head, because I never really have a plan, just the idea of what it should look like.
This is one of those examples. Found this Beautiful "Treasure" and had to have it for my room. Just needed to be adjust a bit... :)
It started out at 36" to fit an outside door... BUT I knew he could fix it just the way I wanted it...
And here is his masterpiece.
PERFECT!!!
But you will have to wait for my next post to see it in the room. I am in love with it and it looks Gorgeous in there. :)
And another example of his amazing-ness. When we took the carpet out it left the raw edge at both doors.
He came up with this to fix that.
A 2x4...
cut into strips...
then routed...
a couple coats of stain, this was the hard part since we had to try to match the floor. But they turned out pretty good. :) I forgot to put the poly on them so I need to get them finished so he can install them.
Here are a few things I have been working on when he is at work and we can't do the big stuff.
20 January 2013
Craft Room Redo
Once all the paint was in the front room I decided it would be way TOO much Bright and Cheery to do it all in the yellow.
So in the back room I used Antique Lace on the top and the yellow on the bottom.
Now that I have once again changed the plan... I have to figure out what to do on the walls to cover the line.
That was the best option. Now we are ready to put in the baseboards, trim, and chair rail.
So off to the store we went...
After an hour of looking and getting more frustrated by the minute...
We thought we had found the solution when we came across what would have been perfect.
4in. pieces for $2.50.
We could raise them just a bit off the floor add the quarter round and get my tall baseboards...
And this is why I ALWAYS have a measuring tape in my purse :)
(Which I of course left in the truck.)
They looked really small to me and I knew we needed at least a 4 to cover where the old ones came out. So off I went to find a tape. The boards actually measured 3 1/4in... ??? 3/4 of an inch is HUGE when measuring. Needless to say my frustration turned into "getting pissed off"
(Which was apparently very obvious, because the employees were "running" from us. Seriously, one guy actually turned down the other isle TWICE to avoid us.)
I wanted 5in baseboards, yes I know that is wide, but I like the look. Well nothing comes in that size and a 6in. (which is ACTUALLY 5 1/4in.) would have worked Perfectly... Except those are $7 a piece for the crappy stuff.
However sitting right beside the "6"in was a "12"
(11 1/4) for less than $11. The exact same wood...
Problem solved. I get my 5's and it doesn't cost us more than everything else in the room.
And since we have the bestest Dad ever...
who hauled this table saw from Kentucky to give to us, it only took about 20 minutes to cut them all down. 
We cut the "12"s down the middle and got all we needed out of 5 boards.
A few coats of white paint...
And some clean up... And we are all ready to install :) FINALLY, it is starting to look like we are getting somewhere on this room.
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