Updated Living Room Closet Makeover

Happy Tuesday guys and dolls.  Hope you had a great Monday!  Over this past weekend while we were doing our running around and getting things to work on in our basement, we also looked for doors to replace those broken mirrored sliding doors in our living room.  However, after a trip to both Lowe's and Home Depot, we unfortunately, were completely out of luck for doors.  We couldn't get any doors that would fit and if we special ordered them, they would have cost us an arm and a leg and we just didn't want to put tons of money into those doors.  Soooo... against my better judgement, we ended up having to put up a curtain - tell me what you think:

We put up a decorative curtain rod at the top to try and dress it up even more.  It was not what we wanted to do there but really had no choice.  Give me your honest opinion - do you think it looks bad?  We ended up also putting velcro down the right hand side underneath the curtain along the side of the wall to hold it shut as you could see the coats, etc. just by walking through the living room and we didn't like that either.  So now it stays in place nice and neat and we are able to just pull the curtain from the left side to get our jackets and stuff out when we need them.  Hopefully, it won't be much longer and we won't need those anymore.

I would love to have your thoughts and opinions so please feel free to pass them along.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! 

Lots of love and hugs,

Updated Living Room Closet Makeover

Happy Tuesday guys and dolls.  Hope you had a great Monday!  Over this past weekend while we were doing our running around and getting things to work on in our basement, we also looked for doors to replace those broken mirrored sliding doors in our living room.  However, after a trip to both Lowe's and Home Depot, we unfortunately, were completely out of luck for doors.  We couldn't get any doors that would fit and if we special ordered them, they would have cost us an arm and a leg and we just didn't want to put tons of money into those doors.  Soooo... against my better judgement, we ended up having to put up a curtain - tell me what you think:

We put up a decorative curtain rod at the top to try and dress it up even more.  It was not what we wanted to do there but really had no choice.  Give me your honest opinion - do you think it looks bad?  We ended up also putting velcro down the right hand side underneath the curtain along the side of the wall to hold it shut as you could see the coats, etc. just by walking through the living room and we didn't like that either.  So now it stays in place nice and neat and we are able to just pull the curtain from the left side to get our jackets and stuff out when we need them.  Hopefully, it won't be much longer and we won't need those anymore.

I would love to have your thoughts and opinions so please feel free to pass them along.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! 

Lots of love and hugs,

Weekend Projects - Before, Durings and After

Happy Tuesday my friends! How are you?  Great, I hope! I wanted to show you the 3 projects that I got completed this weekend (hard to believe I got so much accomplished considering how late I slept in each day - ha!)  Anyway, I hope you enjoy them:

Before (measuring everything out - this board is one that the hubby

took down out of my closet so I had it laying around and it was

 the perfect size for the top of the bench for added support):

During(making sure it all fits before "hot gluing" everything down)

The After (I velcroed it to the top of the chest):

You can go {here} to see the actual "before, before" when I first picked it up off the side of the road!

 This is a lamp I had in my summer decor last year and decided to transform to be used in my daughter's room:

 During: (wrapping the lamp - there are so many tutorials out in the bloggy world)

 The after:  (and this almost turned into a big fat fail thanks to the fact that when I went to put it all back together I had somehow turned the lampshade upside down which meant that the beautiful red satin rose that I put on for that added pop of color had to be on the bottom instead because once it was glued down it refused to come off!) (sigh)  This was a first for me to ever do, so it didn't turn out perfect, which is why I won't be doing any tutorials on this particular project! HA!

And the final project of the weekend was this ugly built-in bookshelf in my living room:

(Before)

 During:

 After:

It looks SO much better, right?! :)  It took me 4 hours to do the darn thing which was crazy! I didn't think it would take long at all to knock it right out - but, boy was I ever wrong! Oh well.. the after result is so worth it to me! What do you think? :)

Well, I hate to run but it's that time again so I better get my booty moving.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by to say hello.  I promise to get caught up on your blogs soon - but this week at work (yes, I know it's only been 1 day) is already turning out to be another week from H-e-double hockey sticks. *sigh*

 Lots of love and hugs,
 

Weekend Projects - Before, Durings and After

Happy Tuesday my friends! How are you?  Great, I hope! I wanted to show you the 3 projects that I got completed this weekend (hard to believe I got so much accomplished considering how late I slept in each day - ha!)  Anyway, I hope you enjoy them:

Before (measuring everything out - this board is one that the hubby

took down out of my closet so I had it laying around and it was

 the perfect size for the top of the bench for added support):

During(making sure it all fits before "hot gluing" everything down)

The After (I velcroed it to the top of the chest):

You can go {here} to see the actual "before, before" when I first picked it up off the side of the road!

 This is a lamp I had in my summer decor last year and decided to transform to be used in my daughter's room:

 During: (wrapping the lamp - there are so many tutorials out in the bloggy world)

 The after:  (and this almost turned into a big fat fail thanks to the fact that when I went to put it all back together I had somehow turned the lampshade upside down which meant that the beautiful red satin rose that I put on for that added pop of color had to be on the bottom instead because once it was glued down it refused to come off!) (sigh)  This was a first for me to ever do, so it didn't turn out perfect, which is why I won't be doing any tutorials on this particular project! HA!

And the final project of the weekend was this ugly built-in bookshelf in my living room:

(Before)

 During:

 After:

It looks SO much better, right?! :)  It took me 4 hours to do the darn thing which was crazy! I didn't think it would take long at all to knock it right out - but, boy was I ever wrong! Oh well.. the after result is so worth it to me! What do you think? :)

Well, I hate to run but it's that time again so I better get my booty moving.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by to say hello.  I promise to get caught up on your blogs soon - but this week at work (yes, I know it's only been 1 day) is already turning out to be another week from H-e-double hockey sticks. *sigh*

 Lots of love and hugs,
 

Before and In Progress

Happy Valentine's Day guys and dolls!  How are you? How was your weekend?  Do anything special with your significant other to celebrate early for today's big day?  We didn't do a lot except went to dinner and lunch last weekend and then exchanged cards and enjoyed some nice chocolate chip cookies that my husband surprised me with on Saturday night.  I know, good for my diet, right? LOL

Anyway, we also did a LOT of work throughout the weekend around our humble abode.  Remember I told you on Friday that I hoped to tackle our hallway that leads to our garage/basement downstairs this weekend?  Well... we did and actually got a lot accomplished.  However, it was more work than I had planned and I'm still not through. 

Before: (this leads downstairs to garage)

Handy work of previous owners - and this was after we torn down all of the 3 different wallpapers that was up there on top of this ugly red paint: 



Behind door:

 

Horrible ceiling that still needs stripped and painted along with a new light fixture:

 

Behind door:

This is also the previous owner's handywork - nice, huh?!  (We bought a new door to

hang and hope to get it done by next weekend as well)

After my husband had painted and not been able to do a good job due to the horribly old walls in this house, we decided to put up beadboard (my idea) which turned into a big fat FAIL.  So... after our 2nd trip to Home Depot, we decided we were going to have to bite the bullet and wallpaper the area instead to hide all of the wall's imperfections.  Sooo... here it is as of now after working on it all weekend:

That is textured wallpaper that we decided to go with.  And it's also paintable - SCORE!!! The hardest part has been wallpapering this all by myself - husband had other chores on his "honey do" list.  Talk about a CHALLENGE.  *sigh*  So next weekend I will be painting the wallpaper and then I will tackle the ceiling as well.  The other thing you can't really tell about this is that due to the stairs being the way they are and the angle of the "hallway" it makes it very difficult to reach every place that we need to - so we are still trying to figure that part out.  That is another reason that this "tiny" room didn't get completed.  After I have it finished I am turning it into a small mudroom since this is the room we use to get in and out of the house each day/night.  It's just easier to go in and out of our garage. 

Anyway, that is the before and in progress pictures I promised to share.  Any help and advice for tight, small, tall and angled spaces would be welcome.  I can't wait to get this room finished and completed and show you the "after" pictures.  Hopefully, that will be something I can get done next weekend once and for all. 

Happy Valentine's Day and thanks for stopping by to say hello! :) 

Lots of love and hugs,

Before and In Progress

Happy Valentine's Day guys and dolls!  How are you? How was your weekend?  Do anything special with your significant other to celebrate early for today's big day?  We didn't do a lot except went to dinner and lunch last weekend and then exchanged cards and enjoyed some nice chocolate chip cookies that my husband surprised me with on Saturday night.  I know, good for my diet, right? LOL

Anyway, we also did a LOT of work throughout the weekend around our humble abode.  Remember I told you on Friday that I hoped to tackle our hallway that leads to our garage/basement downstairs this weekend?  Well... we did and actually got a lot accomplished.  However, it was more work than I had planned and I'm still not through. 

Before: (this leads downstairs to garage)

Handy work of previous owners - and this was after we torn down all of the 3 different wallpapers that was up there on top of this ugly red paint: 



Behind door:

 

Horrible ceiling that still needs stripped and painted along with a new light fixture:

 

Behind door:

This is also the previous owner's handywork - nice, huh?!  (We bought a new door to

hang and hope to get it done by next weekend as well)

After my husband had painted and not been able to do a good job due to the horribly old walls in this house, we decided to put up beadboard (my idea) which turned into a big fat FAIL.  So... after our 2nd trip to Home Depot, we decided we were going to have to bite the bullet and wallpaper the area instead to hide all of the wall's imperfections.  Sooo... here it is as of now after working on it all weekend:

That is textured wallpaper that we decided to go with.  And it's also paintable - SCORE!!! The hardest part has been wallpapering this all by myself - husband had other chores on his "honey do" list.  Talk about a CHALLENGE.  *sigh*  So next weekend I will be painting the wallpaper and then I will tackle the ceiling as well.  The other thing you can't really tell about this is that due to the stairs being the way they are and the angle of the "hallway" it makes it very difficult to reach every place that we need to - so we are still trying to figure that part out.  That is another reason that this "tiny" room didn't get completed.  After I have it finished I am turning it into a small mudroom since this is the room we use to get in and out of the house each day/night.  It's just easier to go in and out of our garage. 

Anyway, that is the before and in progress pictures I promised to share.  Any help and advice for tight, small, tall and angled spaces would be welcome.  I can't wait to get this room finished and completed and show you the "after" pictures.  Hopefully, that will be something I can get done next weekend once and for all. 

Happy Valentine's Day and thanks for stopping by to say hello! :) 

Lots of love and hugs,