These DIY interior shutters are a sleeper. They are quick, cheap, and so effective. Which can’t be said about many DIY projects.
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paint color plight
Even though my closet project is at a standstill I can’t help thinking about the rest of my bedroom makeover. My next priority is paint color for the cabinets and walls but I’m afraid to completely commit until I determine what color fabric will don my headboard. For certain I’m going to make a wingback style headboard very similar to the picture.
I would love to find an affordable velvet in a brilliant color. Ha! Emerald green or turquoise or even a mustard yellow.
Either of these green options I would be over the moon about. Both pictures have a grey compliment very similar to the color I already have on my bedroom walls. I would go with a little deeper grey however.
I think this mustard color would be a strong choice because I’m thinking of using a deep high gloss teal on the closet cabinet like this…
One thing always leads to another. I’m in a holding pattern now because I need to have an electrical outlet installed in the closet cabinet so I can power my library lights above each unit and eventually a TV.
So I’m off to the fabric store to see what jumps out at me, and then the paint store for some samples. I think i’ll actually put some swatches on the walls and cabinet to be sure of the color this time. In my own home I tend to just buy the paint and go for it, I think because I’ve used so many colors previously I know what works.
What do you think? Crazy town colors or what?
I can hardly wait!
xoxo,
Mimz
kitchen renovation phase 27…how I made my “U” shaped kitchen into a kitchen with an island.
My kitchen has gone through so many phases of renovation, I’m not sure where to start. As soon as we moved in I took down all the upper cabinets, removed an eight foot vent hood that separated the kitchen from the living room, and relocated the refrigerator and water heater. That just made it workable. Then I installed floating shelves made of hollow core closet doors from our old house. I trimmed out the cabinet doors with lattice moulding and painted them out. I made cabinets out of file cabinets, removed a bar sink and built another pantry cabinet to replace it, and what feels like a never ending list of projects. So, to avoid a run-on post I’ll just write about today’s phase. Changing my U-shaped kitchen to an island kitchen.
This is how the kitchen looked the other morning. Beast had the morning free so I recruited his help. He’s usually willing to help if there’s demo involved. The strategy was pretty simple. Take out the oven, remove the cabinet and move base cabinets down to make and island. We started by unhooking the double oven and removing it. Then we simply cut away the cabinet around it with the sawzall.
That alone made a huge difference, right!?
Then we sawzall’d the cabinet away from the corner cabinet and slid it on down the line. I thought I would be able to re-use the cabinet as the island but it proved to be to difficult to make it work with a slide-in range. Instead I found two 30 inch drawer cabinets at habitat for humanity that I’ll use on either side of my range for the island.
So here’s my kitchen this morning.
Next up:
- cut a trench in my concrete floor with a concrete saw to accommodate the conduit and wire.
- pull the wire out of the electrical panel(which is fortunately in the kitchen wall) to re-wire it through the floor.
- finish the garbage cabinet next to the dishwasher (possibly my favorite part of this phase). I love having the garbage put away in a cabinet!
- take out this island of cabinets and replace it with my new drawer cabinets and slide-in range.(you can see the tip of it in the pic above in the middle of my family room).
- make a new concrete countertop for the island.
- put ship-lap siding on the back and sides of the island to match the walls in kitchen.
- paint the island.
- possibly take out the bulkhead above the island.
- put in a range hood above the stove.
- replace my decoupaged floor with wood to match the rest of the house.
- epoxy paint the fridge white.
- re-organize and get rid of stuff.
What do think? I think its coming along nicely.
This is the other end of the kitchen behind the wall. Just wanted to give the full layout.