It's "PRIME" time...

When I last left you, this is what my living room looked like.  Well, not any more...

So I got ALL the nail holes filled with wood putty...  Then the room sat for a couple days as my oldest left his Geometry report and Science Fair project for the last minute..  So needless to say that is what I have been helping with.  They are all turned in so back to business...  Yesterday, I sanded all the nail holes smooth then wiped the boards down then cleaned my floors of all dust...  THEN I painted the upper part of the walls in Glidden Autumn Haze (thanks Shelley from House of Smiths).  It is very neutral..  I am in L.O.V.E with it..

 Today, I primed the Board and Batten......

 Looking good....

Oops...  Need to get to the side of those boards asap...  I can not wait until it is done...  This is really changing the look of our house...  You see, EVERYONE in my neighborhood has the same house..  The only difference between mine and everyone else is mine is a couple hundred square feet larger..  But that is it...  So I am doing my best to make mine way different.  And I think it is working...  :O)

As always, have a great week...  :O)

While the Hubby is away....

The wife will play... With power tools... :O) I told you yesterday that I had a project I was super excited about and we started it last night... Here is the pile of MDF I had cut at Home Depot over the weekend... Can you guess what my project is? Well, I am jumping on the band wagon or rather the Board and Batten wagon... :O)

Last night I had the hubs help put up the baseboards.. I needed the extra hands for that part.. Boy, I wish I was Elasta Girl... That is who I sooo long to be... Would it not just be wonderful? Okay, back to the board and batten..

I had the guys at HD cut the MDF to 6 inches high for the baseboards. I am loving it...

So the hubs went to work this morning and here I was with the power tools.... H.E.A.V.E.N!!! Thought I would get going on the next step.. I had the guys at HD (again) cut the slats 2 inches wide and the top piece 3 inches wide. So on I went putting the slats on the walls...

Looking good so far...

L.O.V.E it!!

So sweet!!

Ignore the mess in the middle of the room... But does that not look good so far?

I just need to put up the 3 inch top piece then comes the daunting task of caulk and painting... I will show you how it turns out later this week, I hope!!!

As always have a great one....

It's the little things...

It's the little things that make us happy right? Like wood floors... :O) They are so beautiful... Only problem with them is.. Can you spot it? No? How about now?
She has... That would be the floor vent. With no cover on it... Do you understand the problem yet? If not let's take a better look shall we?

Oh, there it is... She is thinking maybe I can get my foot down there.. BIG PROBLEM!

After putting in the wood floor we needed to come up with an idea of how to match the covers to the floor. You see wood covers come in VERY light finishes. And to match our Brazilian Cherry Dark wood is like VERY HARD... And not to mention VERY COSTLY!! So we waited and waited and waited... I had to put bright magazines/ boxes/suit cases/ whatever I could find on them during the day so no one would walk on them and fall through.

Then we went to Home Depot this weekend (for a different project that I am sooooo excited about) and came across the perfect vent cover for our wood floors... :O)

Now do not look at the floors very closely.. I have not cleaned them since Friday. Better get on that. But, don't the new vent covers look great?

They soooo match the floors... :O)

They are metal with a brushed bronze finish... (Sorry for the bad pics.. Rainy outside today.)

I think they look great!! Here is a closer picture of them...

I really like the design on them too. Well, one more project down and like 973 more to go... :O)

As always have a great week.. :O)

Project time!

So we went away for the weekend to Steamboat Springs. Have a blast and now it is back to reality.. The sun is shining and it is feeling like spring is coming... Yeah!! So that puts me into project mode. I have decided to dedicate the Spring time to finishing my living room. You see, it has looked like this since September minus the table and chairs. I added them after the Christmas tree was taken down. I got the wing back chairs off of KSL for $50.. That is for both chairs..... SCORE!! I got the table at DI.. Boy is that a story.. I had been looking for a table like this and the wind back chairs for the family room. I had them down there for a while then mover them up to the living room.. Any hoo, I found the table at DI and it was $50. I did not buy it.. Why you ask? I said it was too much.. It kept bugging me and I waited 2 weeks then went back hoping it was still there... It was AND it was marked down to $35 dollars... So I bought it... That is all the furniture in here except for a table housing the computer and a china cabinet. Not much and not enough room for more that 3 people to sit. So my goal is to find a couch, love seat, a chair what ever I can on our budget and get this room done. I have some plans to add some architectural detail in here. Can not wait for that. Hope to get to it soon. But for now my project is to slipcover those wing back chairs.

See, not bad chairs just ugly dusty rose fabric. NOT my style...I decided to try my hand at making my own slipcover for the chairs so I am kind of practicing with some drop clothes that I had. Did not want to buy the fabric until I was more comfortable with making the slipcovers. So here goes... I will not be telling you what I did. But I will show you the pics I took along the way. :O)

Now I just need to go and sew it all together. Wish me luck.... :O)

Here is a side by side. Hope it all turns out alright..

P.S. I did not have enough drop clothe for the cushion so that is sitting on the floor waiting for inspiration or more fabric... Who knows... :O) I will be back later to show what it looks like after I sew it... EEK!!