Friday, June 19, 2009

Paint Chips

As much as we love our house, the one room in it that has bothered us since we moved in was the kids bathroom. The ceiling was peeling it's horrible popcorn texture, the light fixture was falling apart, the color was dreadful and there was this ginormous closet that took up way too much space. In March, I decided that I was going to change all of that singlehandedly...Sean's hardwork would be funding the project of course ;)

I attended a tiling class at Home Depot, read the handy Home Depot Home Repair guide for tips on demolition, installing light fixtures, patching drywall, installing subfloors, plumbing, retexturing a ceiling and painting and went to work! It took about 4 weeks of intense work and more trips to Home Depot and Lowes than anyone should make in a lifetime! It was not an easy task, but to all those women out there...IT CAN BE DONE!!! And feels so freakin awesome to say that I did it myself!!

Here are the before and after pictures!






AFTER...




6 comments:

  1. That is incredible! I love the colors you picked. Good work! I need to hurry and delete this post from Nate's reader before he sees it and starts thinking that I should learn how to do home improvement projects by myself. :)

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  2. Very nice. Go Gwyn! I'm most impressed that you took out that whole closet!

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  3. Dang. He beat me to it. ;)

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  4. Haha! Thanks! The demolition of the closet was the most fun! For some reason taking out some aggression on 2x4's and drywall had theraputic value ;)

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  5. Wow I am soooo impressed. Speechless. You go girl!! It looks fantastic.

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  6. I am crazy impressed!! The tile turned out fantastic. I once installed a doggy door, you uped me by a mile!!!!

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