tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097322455591922412024-03-28T20:29:44.034-07:00meg & the martin menRenovating a money-pit, one room at a time.meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-54789007706139907032020-05-28T09:45:00.001-07:002020-05-28T09:45:57.525-07:00Painting Tile to Look Like Slate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-9347997837284699422020-05-19T13:32:00.000-07:002020-05-19T13:32:15.708-07:00Dining RoomLong time no see! What's it been, a few years? We never slowed down on our renovating but between 3 kids playing multiple sports and 2 full time jobs, documenting things took a backseat. Nothing like forced social distancing to find some extra time. So what have we been up to? Let's start with one of my all-time favorite transformations. The dining room.<br />
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Feast your eyes on this beauty. The picture doesn't do it justice because you can't see that the upper portion is actually textured with sparkles. Come to our house for dinner and you may go home looking like you were at a strip club, covered in sparkles. Badly installed dental molding and floors that could not be salvaged. Don't get me started on the light fixture. <br />
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And this is what we're looking like today! I could not be happier with the result. It is a pretty good example of a high / low budget room. The table & chairs cost more than the entire room but the chairs, lights, rug, drapes and mirror are Target, Overstock, IKEA and Amazon. The built-in's are IKEA! I'll get to that in a minute.</div>
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It took a few steps to get there. Step 1 was to do something about the bad lighting. We swapped the undersized dated fixture for two of these modern farmhouse looking fixtures from Overstock.</div>
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Then Sean put his electrical engineering degree to good use and installed recessed lighting. The mirror is from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EV5AT6A/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. This one is a great price for the substantial size but the best part is that the rim is made of rubber, making it lighter and easier to hang.</div>
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Next up, wallpaper. I really liked <a href="https://www.serenaandlily.com/luna-stripe-wallpaper/m11404.html?color=Navy#start=7" target="_blank">this paper</a> from Serena & Lilly but the fact that it wasn't pre-pasted and I'm a wallpaper rookie made me nix it:<br />
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Instead I chose this pa<span style="font-family: inherit;">per, <a href="https://www.spoonflower.com/en/wallpaper/1855063-moroccan-blue-on-white-by-hazelrose?fabric=wallpaper_smooth" target="_blank">Moroccan Blue on White</a>, with</span> a similar feel from <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/" target="_blank">Spoonflower</a>. I had to skim coat the entire room to even out the textured walls. That was as little fun as it sounds. My awesome parents drove 300 miles to help us wallpaper this room. Wallpaper is scary but there actually isn't a ton of wall to paper due to wainscoting and the built-ins. Removing it down the line shouldn't be too terrible. I hope. <br />
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Now on to the built-ins. They were pretty time consuming but two years in they still look great and are so functional. Our house has very little storage so we have to find pockets where we can. Behind those doors is basically mud-room storage. Coats, shoes, etc. Weird for a dining room but it works. These built-ins are actually IKEA Pax cabinets hidden behind wood face frames and custom wood doors that Sean built and I painted. This picture shows the finished product on the right and the work in progress on the left. <br />
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Sean built each door front by hand, routing each piece. The picture below shows the cubby on the left with finished doors and the cubby on the right is just the IKEA guts without the doors yet.<br />
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Each kid gets a cubby. Backpacks, sweatshirts and coats on the hooks (they pull out!). My favorite part about the Pax units is that they are very changeable as our needs change. The basket up top holds seasonal items. Hats/mittens, sports uniforms, etc. </div>
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The middle ledge holds devices and each cubby has a standard and USB outlet. <br />
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Shoes and socks in the bottom drawer.<br />
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The middle section is IKEA kitchen cabinetry guts with the same face frames. The depth of the kitchen cabinets and the Pax cabinets are actually the same but we made the kitchen cabinets sit out a couple extra inches to give it some interest. This section holds actual dining room things. Imagine that. China, glassware, etc. Topped with a piece of honed marble. These look like progress shots so the drawer fronts aren't on yet.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1596003&categoryId=cat2140116" target="_blank">table </a>and white end <a href="https://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod18890306&categoryId=cat17640070" target="_blank">chairs </a> are from Restoration Hardware were definitely the splurges in this room. White chairs with 3 boys and 2 dogs? I know, right? They tell me they can be bleached without discoloration. I don't see how that's possible and haven't tried it yet but so far they're holding up ok. The table is solid and weighs hundreds of pounds so here's hoping the farmhouse table looks stays in style for a long time. <br />
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So that's it! A massive improvement. I love the new look and the storage is super functional.</div>
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Gingham Chairs - Target (unfortunately discontinued)<br />
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The view from the outside before. The original owners had a greenhouse on that brick slab so the window and door looked into the greenhouse. That has since been removed and an awful slab, rotted window and a rotted door remained.<br />
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Sean removed the window and door along with the row of block beneath the window. In this picture the pool is open and the leaves haven't even turned yet, that's how long ago we did this.<br />
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It literally looked like a bomb went off with all that rubble. I'd love to say that pile of rubble isn't still sitting there but then I'd be lying. <br />
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This was Piper's first major construction project with us. He was unsure about the noise but stuck by our sides the entire time. <br />
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Only one animal was harmed in the installation of this door. 2 adults, 3 kids and a dog tried to chase this little guy out for a couple days. He may still be living in our basement. Eh, what's one more creature?</div>
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Next up is a huge, gigantic, massive back yard project that we are NOT DIY'ing!!!! I'll fill you in next time.meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-12823402043014045982016-02-01T07:34:00.000-08:002016-02-01T07:34:02.704-08:00Foyer CompleteAfter wrestling 3 boys into and out of snow suits a dozen times a day for the past few days thanks to the Bizzard of 2016 it became even more apparent that I needed better storage just inside the door. Balaclavas always demand ninja stances.<br />
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A reminder of what we were starting with. A very dark entrance with zero storage, an ugly baseboard heater and an uglier floor.</div>
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Voila! Solving 3 out of 4 problems isn't bad (the floor remains).</div>
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Remember that mirror from our powder room? Well I decided to place it adjacent to the door to reflect the light into the dark foyer. Mission accomplished. I added 2 sets of hooks. The upper to hold hats, the dog's leash, etc. and the lower to hold the boys' coats, sweatshirts, etc. with enough headroom for my tall husband.</div>
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Baskets and bins below to hold mittens, hats, etc. in the winter and baseball gloves and sunscreen in the summer.<br />
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I can't figure out the wall color. It has been 3 different colors in 8 years and I've tried countless samples. It is currently Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray which works in basically every scenario except this one. It is reading pretty green. Its ok for now. <br />
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I think I "need" to paint the interior side of the front door. I love a black front door but I'm wondering if painting it a lighter color may also help lighten up the space? What do you think? Also I think I eventually "need" to cover that ugly floor with a sisal carpet tile. Agree?<br />
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So that's a wrap for now. Maybe some tweaks down the line. It already provides some much needed interest and storage to a previously unused space. meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-84010696018102069042016-01-28T07:00:00.000-08:002016-01-28T10:19:58.661-08:00Floating Bench<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Last time I mentioned that I liked the idea of a floating bench or ledge to maintain some visual real estate. I love all of these:</div>
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Then my 5 year old and I conditioned, stained and poly'ed the wood. I used 4 coats of poly because I imagine that bench is going to see a lot of use.</div>
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Once we finished staining and poly'ing we had to figure out how to mount it. It is a solid 1.5" thick which means the bench is probably 80 lbs. Figuring out to mount a piece that heavy (that also has to hold a person) and be floating was challenging. While not a perfect solution we decided to mount them using these <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007C2D97U/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B007C2D97U&linkCode=as2&tag=methmame-20&linkId=FT537KHPOHP2KZLS" target="_blank">brackets</a> (affiliate) which hold 1,000 lbs:<br />
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2 brackets were mounted into the studs. My stud installing them into the studs.<br />
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Side note, how ugly is that floor? It is sitting in 2" of concrete so while we've pulled most of it out of the house this small section remains. For as ugly as it is, it really does hold up well against the snow and salt. Does anyone know if I can tile right over it? It is about 1/2" lower than the hardwood that meets it and is in solid condition.<br />
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Now that the floating bench is complete, time to move on to the wall storage above it!<br />
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Mudrooms are the things my dreams are made of. I've thought long and hard about how I could create one but based on the way my house is configured it is impossible. We're being overrun with kid coats, sweatshirts, hats, gloves, sporting equipment, etc. While we can't have a mudroom there are still some spaces that could be put to better use.</div>
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Enter the foyer. I really didn't take any before pics - sorry. This is the best I could find on my hard drive. See that itty bitty 16" deep space just inside the front door? That's what I decided could work a little harder.</div>
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I want to turn that 16" narrow span next to the front door into storage area. These are my inspiration:<br />
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I like the floating console table to keep the space visually open. That would be key for my narrow space. Don't even get me started on all that natural light.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Hooks and a bench and best of all it looks like they're hiding a baseboard heater just like we have. But come on. Look at that staging. A basket of wildflowers and a few scarves? Show me a basket of baseball gloves and a few jock straps and I'll show you reality.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">So cute. I'll have to remember this for summer pool storage this summer.<br />
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So the goal is to transform the unused foyer into a more interesting space with better storage. Oh and I don't want to spend a lot. Famous last words.<br />
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It was a relatively slow renovation year for us. Only a few big projects. I'm hopeful that our renovations are slowing down. Who am I kidding - we're just saving our pennies to tackle the outside. This post will be a quick walk down memory lane. One of the rooms in this post was renovated twice this year. </div>
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First up was the powder room. What started the year with bold stripes...</div>
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...ended the year with g<a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2015/01/powder-room-reveal.html" target="_blank">reen grass cloth wall paper and a new mirror</a>.</div>
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Then to properly bookend the year we were forced to <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2015/09/good-news-bad-news.html" target="_blank">gut our newly redecorated powder room</a> and turn this gross floor...</div>
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...into this <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2015/12/powder-room-reveal.html" target="_blank">beauty</a>!<br />
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I know I still haven't shown you the family room. I need to figure out the walls. Hopefully in the next couple weeks.<br />
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2016 is gearing up to be the year of the outdoor space. Hopefully we can make some decisions and share something soon!meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-25214178688235654682015-12-21T07:56:00.002-08:002015-12-21T16:31:25.668-08:00DIY Canvas Frame<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I built a frame. All by myself. Power tools and all. I don't need a man (finger snaps). Scratch that, yes I do.</div>
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I have this print that I bought on Overstock.com. I really like it but it looked unfinished.</div>
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So I searched for a frame but because it is 2" thick and an odd size I couldn't find one for less than $100. The art was really cheap (and I'm really cheap about some things) so I wasn't interested in paying that. It is 4 pieces of wood - how hard could it be? Off to Home Depot I went and picked up these oak craft boards (2" x 1/2"). $20. I'm sure I could have figured out a way to pay less but I had about 10 minutes before I had to get the kids off the bus so I was in a hurry and grabbed the first thing that worked. I could have butted the corners and it would have looked fine but I mitered the corners.<br />
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Then I conditioned the wood. Don't skip this step - it is super important to help the wood accept the stain. I've been using this same can of pre-stain for about 8 years and as long a it doesn't dry out I'll have it for the rest of my life. Then I stained it using Minwax dark walnut that I've used on every project I've stained in this house. Wear gloves. I didn't and my fingers are still brown.<br />
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After letting the wood conditioner sink in for 15 minutes I applied one coat of stain and got the color I was after. If you want to go darker you can continue to add layers. If you want to go lighter you can wipe off the stain quickly after you apply it. And yes that is a silk shantung drape I'm using as a drop cloth. As the most interesting man in the world says, "I don't always DIY canvas frames but when I do I use silk drop cloths."<br />
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Then I assembled the frame by applying a bead of gorilla glue (just a dab will do ya or it'll ooze out the sides) and then clamping to dry for about an hour.<br />
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Just for added security I added a staple to the corners.<br />
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Then add a screw from the inside of the canvas frame to the finished frame itself.</div>
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My goal of coordinating the mirror frame to the art was achieved. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Not perfect but the $20 price tag was way better.</span><br />
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Remember when I showed you the overall idea for the family room? It originally had those blue prints behind the couch.</div>
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Well Pottery Barn has them for $509 for a group of 4. $509!? Um, no. </div>
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Mom to the rescue. She created 7 of them for me using an old printing process called Cyanotype. You can get 15 sheets of the specialty papers for under $10. My accounting degree tells me $10 is much better than $509.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KSKTG0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002KSKTG0&linkCode=as2&tag=methmame-20&linkId=Y6UXEXG5XWYGJDS7%22%3ETedco%208%22%20X%2010%22%20Sun%20Art%20Paper%20Kit%20-%2015%20sheets%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=methmame-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002KSKTG0%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sun sensitive paper</a> (affiliate link)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leaves, flowers, etc...whatever you want to make an image of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- A bowl of water</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;">1) Lay out a piece of the sun sensitive paper and place the object </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.1px;">on the paper. If it is windy you can lay a sheet of glass over the object.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;">3) Place it in the sun. You can adjust how white or blue the image ends up being by the amount of time you leave it in the sun.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;">4) After the image sits in the sun, quickly place the paper in water for a minute. This will stop the development process.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;">6) The ends will probably curl so after they're dry place heavy books over them to flatten them out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;">The original plan was to place them over the couch to pull through some more blue into the room but when I taped up some prototypes I couldn't get the layout right. 2 rows of 3 was too short and 6 or 7 across was too long. I'm glad I used paper and tape before I started putting holes in the wall. Thank you Amazon Prime and all the packing paper you send me.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.1px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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A quick reminder of where we started when we bought the house:<br />
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Then it looked like this (briefly) before we discovered water damage. </div>
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Today it looks like this!</div>
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Bright and timeless (I hope because I don't want to do this again anytime soon).</div>
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We replaced the other toilet with one a bit more standard. The other, while the prior homeowners spent about three times what I would have spent on a toilet, was an odd size. Disappointingly this one does not clean the pee from poor boy aim on the seat as I would have hoped.</div>
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The mirror was sourced at HomeGoods by my personal shopper (thanks Mom) and I think does a nice job of stretching out the narrow room a bit. We swapped the sconces for one overhead light. The best part about the room isn't something anyone else would notice but we replaced the awful drywall, builders grade molding and the and the ceiling. It all looks so clean now.<br />
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So because we ended up pulling the drywall down it opened up new possibilities for us. I really like wall paper but it is a lot of pressure to get something that is perfect and then I feel like I'm handcuffed into keeping it forever. <br />
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I'm also very tired of spending money at this point. I have about 20 gallons (I'm not kidding) of paint in the basement and I really only needed a half gallon max so I dug around and wound up with tried and true Revere Pewter. There aren't many spaces where this color won't work. This is the same color in the family room so it'll leave the 1st floor looking cohesive. <br />
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The next hiccup was the mirror and the light. We figured as long as we were pulling down the drywall why not rewire the lighting for an overhead rather than a sconce? I prefer sconces but the room is so small that there is almost no sconce that will fit. I bought an overhead light without taking the mirror into account. Not so fast.<br />
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I love this West Elm mirror that we had in the room before but unfortunately it is 3" deep and the light (and most lights) have less than that in clearance between the light and the wall. I will definitely repurpose this elsewhere. Stay tuned. So I searched high and low for a replacement.<br />
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It turns out I didn't need to look any further than my dining room. I had this round, wood mirror that I scored from Target clearance for under $20 this summer. The size and the price were right.<br />
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So now this is where we're headed and the finish line is in sight!!!<br />
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Well we didn't finish either room in 6 weeks but at least we're close. The family room is done but the couch won't be delivered for another couple of weeks. Probably a blessing in disguise considering my house is covered in a layer of fine spackle dust. Each time I type 'spackle' my computer wants to autocorrect to 'sparkle.' Makes me giggle each time. </div>
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I was able to remove the above wall paper in under 20 minutes but unfortunately the walls beneath it were already on its last legs and basically only held up by the dozen or so coats of paint I've put on them. So we ripped everything down. </div>
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The bad news is that it set us back a week. The good news is that we were able to upgrade everything in the room (add a fan and an outlet, fix some old wiring, add a new light fixture, etc.). There is not a single thing from the original room that was kept. Even the subfloor went.</div>
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New drywall was hung, followed by mud, sand repeat for about a week. I painted the top half of the wall using some leftover Revere Pewter. </div>
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The bottom half gets all the leftover bead board from the porch project that I never showed you the final product on (b/c we honestly never finished it! Maybe next year).</div>
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Of all the places this dog could choose to sleep he chooses the 3'x5' construction zone. I think we picked the perfect dog for our family.<br />
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I'm hoping one more week and then we can call this room done. Check out the other participants <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2015/11/one-room-challenge-guest-participants.html">here</a> (hopefully they're not still painting!).<br />
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We painstakingly measured and remeasured and remeasured.<br />
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You see if you don't have a perfectly square space (and who does?) then the herringbone will get all out of whack at some point in the room. To combat that we laid a border tile that was exactly square (the bead board will hide any gaps) and then began to figure out the herringbone pattern from there.<br />
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Complicated step #2 is figuring out how big the tiles should be and how to lay them in order to reduce the number of cuts and strange triangles on the end. In our case, this meant tiles that were 3 13/16" x 7 3/4" with 1/8" tile spacers. Got all that?<br />
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Complicated step #3 is deciding where the 1st tile should be laid and then work off that. If that first tile isn't perfect then the entire design will get off track. Sean drew diagonal lines from corner to corner of our square border and then worked off of that.<br />
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Today is the powder room. A reminder of we looked like a couple weeks ago...</div>
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...and how we look today.</div>
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The overall look I'm hoping for (though maybe I'll replace the wallpaper while we're at it? I mean, it is 8 months old after all).<br />
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We're still in a hurry up and wait stance with the plumber so in the meantime we choose tile. I love this <a href="http://www.greigedesign.com/blogs/blog/19200279-week-4-one-room-challenge">herringbone slate floor</a> (coincidentally from prior One Room Challenge participant!):<br />
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Because this is a very high traffic bathroom with boys who can't aim I'm going to go with a porcelain rather than natural slate. This is a pretty good fake (it even feels real). We bought it in 8" x 32" tiles and we're going to cut it down to 3 13/16" (got that?) x 7 3/4"...and when I say "we"...<br />
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My brother drafted up the design so we finalize the layout before we actually started cutting the tiles. The hard part about herringbone is that you can't just cut tiles and lay them down. In order for the design to work out perfectly you have to take into account the grout lines. Hence the reason for the crazy 3 13/16" measurements.<br />
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No one should be surprised I asked the husband for the most complicated tile layout I could imagine. I'm the same person who also sweet talked him into building me a crazy complicated gable :) I think he still likes me.<br />
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Welcome back. If you're following along, Linda from Calling It Home is hosting the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2015/10/one-room-challenge-guest-participants.html">One Room Challenge</a> and because I'm a masochist I'm making it a Two Room Challenge. One intentional (family room) and one unintentional (1st floor powder room). </div>
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The powder room was the unintentional renovation. While <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2015/09/good-news-bad-news.html">installing a slider door in the basement</a> we discovered mold and rotten wood from a toilet that had probably been leaking for years. </div>
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The good news is we discovered the problem before it was a widespread mold problem and our toilet fell through the floor.<br />
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The bad news is that it meant we had to completely gut a room that we had already renovated. Womp womp.<br />
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So down to the studs it went. Not even a sub-floor remains. That's the basement floor you see between the joists.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The room looked like this the day we moved in.</span><br />
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...then a little of this....<br />
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...and today it looks like this:<br />
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The plumber says the stack would probably be fine for another 10 years but because we already have the walls open we're going to replace the entire thing now. Cha ching. <br />
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Sigh. Money and time I hadn't planned on spending. Plumber comes next week and then it will be time to put this room back together. Again.<br />
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Check out the other crazies attempting the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2015/10/one-room-challenge-guest-participants.html">One Room Challenge</a>!meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-22884169055608325452015-09-24T13:00:00.003-07:002015-09-24T13:08:04.978-07:00Good News / Bad NewsI've got good news and bad news. Good news is I'm back. Bad news is I'm back to share a project we weren't planning on tackling. Time and money we hadn't planned on spending. Good news is I've never liked our powder room floor anyway.<br />
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Let me back up. We were swapping out a rotten window and door in the basement for a big slider door. It would eventually be the entrance to a small kitchen accessible from the pool.<br />
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When Sean pulled down the dry wall to prep for the install he found mold and rotten wood under the 1st floor powder room. The toilet had a bad seal that leaked, probably for years. The door installation just moved down on the to-do list and out the bathroom fixtures came. See this floor? Yick. A light colored, cool tile with a warm tile inlay? Hate it.<br />
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View from the basement, under the bathroom:<br />
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So gross. The only thing to do was to pull up the tile, subfloor and any other pieces of moldy, rotten wood and replace it all. Who knows when we would have eventually found it if we hadn't replaced that door. Makes me wonder how many other lurking surprises there are. Ignorance is bliss until you have a mold problem I guess.<br />
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As long as we were ripping out the door why not also rip out the fake bead board panels while we're at it and install real bead board (we have some left over from our porch ceiling)? Scope creep is how we roll.</div>
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Sean bought this neat little moisture sensor from Ryobi that takes moisture readings and connects to your phone so that you can plot out changes as it dries out, etc. After we ripped out all the bad wood we used a heater, fan and dehumidifier to dry out the wood for a couple days.</div>
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So good news is that I'm getting a new tile floor. The bad news is the only 1st floor bathroom was out of commission at exactly the same time the 4 year old came down with a doozy of a stomach bug. Excellent timing. We are motivated to get this bathroom back up and running quickly. Which meant I needed to pick a tile and it had to be in stock.</div>
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Having lived and learned with light tile and light grout in this high traffic room with little boys I knew the tile had to be very durable and easy to keep clean (or at least hide the dirt). I love the look of slate but didn't want to deal with the maintenance of natural stone in this room. <br />
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I think I found just the thing. This is a porcelain tile that looks and feels like slate. In stock, not crazy expensive and both of us like it. Done.<br />
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Now for layout. I love this herringbone floor.<br />
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Somehow I actually convinced Sean that all that labor would be worth it. I'm surprised he still likes me. So we ordered the porcelain tile in 8"x32" tiles and will cut them down to 4"x8" subway tiles. This is a huge gamble and may end badly.<br />
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The design will be a beast so Sean had the genius idea of having my Auto Cad pro brother plot it out so that we could decide on tile placement, determine centers, etc. and then have his engineer brother print it out on huge blotter paper. This way we could lay the paper out on the floor, trace, cut and dry fit the entire room first. It is sure is handy having engineers, architects and auto cad brothers in the family when you have an addiction to interior design like I do. Or maybe they just enable me. Either way I'm getting a herringbone floor :)<br />
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This is where our design ended up. The bottom border row is a double row b/c the back row is actually hidden by the baseboard heater.<br />
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If you remember what the room looked like when we did the wallpaper install the hopeful end product will be something like this:<br />
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So now Sean is working on prepping the room for tile. New insulation, new heating element, replace the rotten nailers and subfloor and install backer board. <br />
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The plumber just left and it turns out the stack line has seen better days. He says it'll probably be fine for another 5-10 years but because I'm not interested in opening up the floor or walls anytime soon we'll have to bite the bullet and replace that now but can't get it done for 3 more weeks. All that hurrying up just to wait. Sigh.<br />
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We have a new Martin male in our household! Meet Piper, our 7 month old rescue.</div>
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He has an insane amount of energy and eats everything in sight. So basically he fits in with the other boys perfectly!</div>
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We celebrated his birthday with a Monsters Inc. party. With all the party supplies I've collected over the years I was able to pick out the purple and teal things from prior parties so I didn't have to buy much.</div>
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For some reason the boys have become anti-cupcake. How is that even possible? So I gave cake decorating a shot with this Sully cake. <br />
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I used store bought cake and frosting and used a decorating tip typically used to mimic grass to create the fur and my professional cake decorating sister sent me the door topper. Piper got within an inch of eating it which meant he was an inch away from becoming a shelter doggy again (I'm kidding). I'll keep my day job but the birthday boy loved it.<br />
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I added food coloring to 2 of the white cake layers for the surprise center.<br />
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We did finish the porch, I just haven't gotten around to writing that post yet. Soon I promise!meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-86588867499196380462015-04-15T08:54:00.000-07:002015-04-15T08:54:39.854-07:00Done!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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And the reason we needed new paint was because the old green clashed with the green wallpaper in the powder room. Sherwin Williams Slate Tile which is approximately a 4:1 mix of Benjamin Moore's Haley Navy and Revere Pewter. Mission accomplished.</div>
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Sean showcased some of his carpentry skills.<br />
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I picked up this canvas abstract from overstock.com.<br />
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Sean's already talking about how we "<i>have</i>" to carry the wainscoting through the foyer and family room now. It is a good thing we're married to each other.<br />
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Spoiler alert - it looked terrible on my walls. Getting swatches always feels like a waste of money and time but almost every time I end up choosing a different color than I would have thought based on the little cards.<br />
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When choosing a blue for your wall paint always go grayer than you'd think. In large doses it reads way bluer than it does on the card (and even on the small test swatch). Also apply test swatches on each wall as each wall may show the color a little differently based on lighting.<br />
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I mixed some Benjamin Moore Haley Navy and Revere Pewter I had on hand (4:1 ratio) and ended up with that gray blue on the white scrap wood in the bottom right hand corner. That was my end goal. I ordered samples of 4 different shades of what looked like gray blue on the cards. Top left was too green, top right (Indigo Batik, the original inspiration) was too purple and the bottom two were the contenders for a true gray/blue. The one on the right looks about right and the one on the left looks pretty gray but using my "always go grayer than you think" rule I went with the one on the left. Slate Tile by Sherwin Williams. Even the name sounds gray.<br />
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This one ended up as the winner winner, chicken dinner:<br />
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I'm still not totally sold but I'm hoping that once I get rid of that green and add some art I'll feel better about it.meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-59007038161307044442015-04-10T05:00:00.000-07:002015-04-10T05:00:00.107-07:00Wainscoting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dry fit everything. This isn't exactly what our design looks like (ours doesn't have the 2nd baseboard) but pretty close and gives you an idea of how to layer wainscoting:<br />
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And then how I totally forgot and <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2014/03/big-boy-room-reveal.html">did it again</a> here?<br />
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Well apparently amnesia has kicked in again and my husband has allowed me to sweet talk him into it yet again. I got bit by the paint bug last week and casually mentioned to my husband that the green may be disappearing soon and that the "long term" plan would be to add wainscoting like this one to give us some additional color options:<br />
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He responded with "it shouldn't be too hard" and kind of agreed. I took that as my green light and literally began drawing all over the walls 10 minutes later. No going back now. Very 4 year old of me.<br />
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So my plan is go go with a wainscoting 3/4 of the way up the all and then go for this faded navy up top.<br />
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Then hopefully add some interesting art to tone down the color and to incorporate some other tones.<br />
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Our hallway has been this shade of green for 5 years. That's way overdue for a change in Martin house years. I still like it. Just looking for a change.</div>
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The other reason is that now that we've wallpapered the powder room off the hallway the greens clash and we cannot have that can we?<br />
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I want to go a bit more bold but there is not a lot of natural light in this area so in order to do that I'm going to need to bring in some more white trim work.<br />
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I'm thinking something in the gray/blue family with some wainscoting.<br />
<br />Good thing my husband likes me. <br />
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So no big post here b/c I didn't build anything or really do anything more than punch in my credit card number and open a box :)</div>
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A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I was <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2015/02/birthday-boy-take-2.html">searching for a desk for Brady's birthday.</a> I ended up going with the trestle desk. It had a lower profile and for the small room, it made sense.</div>
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We placed it in his room while he slept the night before his birthday. I added some random office supplies to it. Early the next morning the first words we hear are, "I got a STAPLER"?!</div>
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Apparently the desk is just a really expensive gift bag for the stapler :)meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609732245559192241.post-25601644835016735772015-03-11T11:41:00.000-07:002015-03-11T11:46:51.849-07:00DIY Photo Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some of my favorite photos are from my phone. Camera phones have come a long way from the low resolution, blurry photos to the high-def pics with options to crop, correct and filter all with a few swipes of your thumb. I don't always carry my bulky camera with me but I almost always have my phone. Without it I never would have captured my son's first bike ride without training wheels, their first jumps off the diving board or their first t-ball at bats. I was going through my pictures the other day and realized that while I love the shots, they're sort of just stuck in my phone.<br />
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I searched around a little for display options and man are there ever options out there. You can subscribe to a service that automatically prints, binds and mails you a book of your photos each month. You can have them made into almost anything from calendars to greeting cards. I also found blocks of wood that held photos but was shocked at the $15 price tag. A quick and easy DIY project it became.<br />
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We had some scrap wood left over from the <a href="http://megandmartinmen.blogspot.com/2012/03/reclaimed-wood-console-table.html">reclaimed wood console table</a> we built a few years back. I'm told the wood originally served as the beams from a paper mill in the early 1900's. <br />
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No need to go in depth on how to make the wood blocks. Basically cut to whatever size you want (we chose to go slightly smaller than 4" so that the edges would hang off on either end), route a groove for the picture to sit in (we used a 10 degree angle), sand, stain and poly to preference. I used the same stain and poly I used on the table so the entire project ended up being free for me.<br />
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The grooves hold a few pictures so I can easily rotate them for a change of scenery. I like the influx of color and the subject matter of my men always makes me smile :)<br />
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So from beams in a paper mill circa early 1900's to my kitchen displaying cell phone pictures this wood has certainly had a very full life!meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744801666659638622noreply@blogger.com0