How to kill your family in their sleep. We all laughed thinking of all the funny blog posts one could do with DIY’s gone really wrong. Hence the mask.
This was taken in my bedroom late at night while we were all huddled in there bemoaning what in the world we were to do.
Here is a very basic idea of my home redo plan
I’ve said it here many times. I am on a cash budget = a project at a time.
I make a list of all the things I want to do room by room.
I then make a projected budget for said project.
I search Pinterest for ideas.
and start a project
I have many I will be sharing with you now…I am SURE there will be “oh my gosh” moments. I am not a pro:)
<insert crazy scrunched up face here> since I can’t see you in person…that is what my face is doing
oh…off subject but we ate here yesterday and oh.my.goodness! 5 Guys Burgers..heard of them? so want another one right now
Growth comes in trusting God in the process.
Yes I bring God into even my home decorating. Trust me…I need it!
I can’t have the house..or a whole room for that matter redone at one time. I have to learn to be content with a project.
Grace’s room has no insulation. It gets SUPER cold in the winter. Eventually I am going to have to gut the room and put up insulation.
In her room we are doing things that do not cost to much money because we will eventually tear it out and throw it away.
I want to do painted floors in my kitchen and Grace…the crazy girl she is said, ” let’s paint stripes on my floor”.
We had painted the floor white a couple of months ago. The hardwood is original to the house and is about 40 years old so it isn’t in the best shape.
And the white floors showed so much dirt so why not?
We picked a color out of her bedding which we got from Target.
I love her vision for the room. She calls it vintage bohemian. It is bright and wild and really opens wide the door for creativity!
I am teaching her to make the best of what we have. You can make it look really pretty with paint, furniture, linens and pictures.
we tried 3 colors first to see which ones she liked.
gray-orange-yellow
we vacuumed and mopped the floor first
The color we chose was SW Definitive Yellow but I had it mixed at Home Depot in Behr’s Self Priming Interior Flat Enamel.
We got our supplies of tape and brushes
I taped off the room and labeled my pattern starting at the far end of the room.
Grace painted most of it herself and this helped her stay on track.
I have to tell ya though…those stripes can make your eyes go crazy!
Bright huh?:)
Doesn’t everybody paint in their pajama’s?
She is waiting on me to help hold the headboard and footboard. We are adding a final coat to the bed
and then off to get a mattress.
the moral of the story is….
read the can! I thought I was buying a waterbased poly. I think I read so many cans and since I am on the brink of Alzheimer’s I picked up the wrong one.
It was a laquer.
When I opened the can it smelled up the living room almost immediately. That should have been a red flag.
Instead of listening to my gut I proceeded to roll the floor with this stuff. It smelled our whole house up!
Windows were flung open..mind you it was 100 degree’s outside.
I finally put a fan in her room and faced it toward her open window. Shut her door and placed a rolled towel under the door.
An hour later the smell had dissipated enough for us to feel safe going to sleep:)
It gave it a good enough coat to make a nice sheen and give it a little protection.
I just want it to last a year at least.
She really loves it and we are excited to go on to the next project.
Here is my list as it stands now for Grace’s room. I also carry measurements of the room and windows with me.
You never know when you are going to run into something while out beauty hunting:)
Grace’s Room To Buy
a full mattress for her bed
big full length mirror
a really crazy lighting fixture
lining a roller shade with fabric
curtaining off her closet
spraying the wall lights and redoing the shades
a big ol rug
and baseboard…
It is hard sometimes picturing it all done isn’t it? I look at the baseboards and it drives me crazy that I just can’t go buy them right now. It looks so dirty without them.
Life isn’t a McDonald’s drive thru though is it? We are programmed to think that way about every area of life.
The good in all of this is it helps me to slow down and focus on the process. To be in the moment and not next week or next month or year.
I have to be humbly honest here and say that over the last year practicing this .. making it a habit in my daily life has helped me eliminate some stress. To be
more grateful. Living within each day is SO much easier.
now it is your turn..
have you had a DIY gone wrong?
do you often wish for drive thru decor?:)
do you decorate one project at a time or do you do the whole room?
( I won’t judge you if you are able to do a whole room…lol! I said today if I had a charge card I would go to Home Depot and
buy all the lumber to add a screened in deck and a deck around the pool! )
may you live your weekend ‘all in’ the crazy beautiful moments…love you all
xoxo
We love 5 Guys burgers. The restaurant chain came to our area about 2 years ago… so good for fast food!
As far as projects go, we have to decorate one step at a time. I often have difficulty deciding what to focus on and how to spend the money available.
I just love that sunny yellow color! I’m so sorry you nearly gassed yourselves out of your home, but I’d say the result was worth it!
Oh, I’m a one project at a time kinda girl. Every time I try to do a whole room, I get myself into a tizzy and lose sleep and it makes the process painful instead of joyful.
That looks amazing! Bright and sunny like your Grace!
My DIY disaster involves changing out a faucet and flooding our house, to the tune of $27,000 of damage. That was a REALLY bad day
That was a brave adventure that turned into memories and a treat for your eyes. I can see the corner of a painted dresser in one of those pictures that looks divine! What a great outcome. I’m with you on the one project at a time. It’s fun to see the slow but steady progress, though, isn’t it? Thanks a lot for showing that burger. I’m starving and now I think I’m going to have to get in the car and drive over to Five Guys. Nothing else will hit the spot now that I have that on my brain.
Liz
I’m glad you guy are ok. I want one of those burgers!
Y’all are way more adventurous than me. No way could I do stripes. The floor looks marvelous!
looks goooood!! my hsb grabbed the wrong can when he built out combo bookcase tv cabinet and we thought the odor would never dissipate. we too have to do things project at a time and nothing seems to ever be finished all at once and it almost feels like a revolving door since by the time everything is done it is time to start over on fixing or improving. do you ever feel the same??
i must saay i get a lot of encouragement from your blog adventures.
Oh girl you are too funny. I’ve had disasters…remember my graffiti bathroom?? Oh and years ago we spray painted built in bookshelves…stupid. We had spray paint dust in several rooms. Nightmare! Should I go on?;)
I think you are so brave for painting over those wood floors.
like…really, really brave.
I’m very impressed!
We are one project at a time people.
I do the same thing….I make a list for each room and mark it off one thing at a time.
now…you said you hope the floors last a year at least…what happens in a year? will you guys sand them down to the wood or repaint them?
BRAVE GIRL.
Those floors look so good….. I love it. Your Grace is learning so much from her momma & just think of the memories created. You are blessed!
I love the floor. I REALLY love the floor. It is simply awesome!!!!!!! Hey, go with what you got!!!! You girls did a great job.
Now, as for that burger……………..tell me that your little belly didn’t eat this whole thing. It makes me hurt, looking at it. Destin is just putting in their first Five Guys. I hope and pray I don’t weaken and go in there. I would gain 6 lbs just walking in the joint!!!!
I better stick to “thin bread toast with lowfat cheese”.
It did look good…………………but……………….I’ll leave the burger eatin to you!
GO GRACE GO! I love the room!
We also decorate as we have the money. Right now, we are in the middle of updating our living room and I must say now I want to paint our floors. We have ugly, nasty carpet in our living room… think 1970′s. I know there is a wood floor underneath, but we aren’t sure of it’s condition. I really want to bit the bullet and rip it up!
I love the comforter from Target…we just bought the one in the same display..ruffly linen.
Our house is one big never ending project. Husband is hanging drywall as we speak. I’m always so eager to get to the fun decorating part. I love the way the floors turned out!
Have you ever seen Renovation Realities? It makes me feel better..
P.S. Five Guys is yummy!
So glad you did not wake up in the morning … in heaven.
That would have been cool for you guys … but really sad for us.
This is exactly why I no longer touch anything in the house. Almost every DIY task I’ve taken on in the past has almost always gone wrong in one way or another. I’ve become that afraid of DIY that I called the replacement lock experts because my extremely simply single lock on my front door was broken.
Still though, after my last experiences, it’s better safe than sorry. I’m glad it worked out for you though!