DIY Woodworking, Home Improvement, and Art Projects

Howdy everybody. Just dang, I can’t believe that it’s been over a month since I’ve posted. I think I just got a bit burnt out there once I was done with the major part of the kitchen renovation. After over four months of hard work that part of the house is done well enough that it’s fine if we never returned to work on it again. I do still have designs on doing the faux-stucco plaster work over the brick on the main wall of the kitchen.

Now the master bathroom and master bedroom renovations are on the docket. I am looking forward to getting back into the routine of planning, shopping, demolishing, and rebuilding. We’ve already been planning for the bedroom and bathroom work for awhile. The ideas were there, but the kitchen really was the priority. Actually, the kids rooms were the first things on the list; the murals and lighting we did for them was to make their transition to the new house easier. Once their little fun, private spaces were complete, we moved on to the kitchen. Now that the list is clear again, we move on to the master bed and bath.

For the bedroom we’re going to keep it fairly simple to start with. We bought some Benjamin Moore paint, a nice mirrored, wrought iron wall piece to use as a head board, a new folding closet panel door, and we’ve priced out new poplar molding for the door casements and the baseboard molding. The current crop of molding in this place is like sawdust, water, and spit pressed into a mold roughly shaped like a strip of wood. It’s falling apart, it looks like crap, and it just doesn’t belong anywhere, let alone inside a house where actual people live! Eventually I’m going to attempt to make a solid wood bed platform, but that’s at the bottom of the bedroom list right now.

In the master bathroom we’re going to be plastering over a smaller, second door that goes directly into the bedroom.  It’s not very useful since the main door is right beside it and is just off of the hallway is much more convenient.  There is also some moldy, water-damaged drywall beside the shower that needs repaired.  We already purchased some awesome 6×6 natural slate tile, a custom-made maple wood 42″ vanity in nutmeg finish, and we’ve got a cool sand-texture paint that we used in the sea-themed kids room.  We’re going to get the poplar molding for the bathroom too, and the lights, mirror, and vanity top will be updated as well.  We’ll be doing the tile, drywall, installation of the vanity and top, and refinishing the walls ourselves.

So the list is full once again and I’m pretty excited about it.  I’ll make more of an effort to  post our progress on these two big projects.  Until then, take care!