...has been a thorn in my side.
...has been my prison for the past two plus weeks.
...has been a nightmare!!
The room is the boys' bedroom.
Though I don't have before pictures, I can tell you when we first moved in the wallpaper was dark blue with large tulips. We tore that off almost immediately when the kids discovered just how much fun it was to tear wallpaper apart. For the last two years it's been a cream colored floral print that must have been original to the house. I've had
no motivation to re-do their room because I knew just how hard that wallpaper was going to be to take down. And I didn't know how to repaint.
I finally decided on what to do and since I hadn't worked on the house in about a year I figured it was time. I painted the walls khaki. On the large wall I did diamonds in argyle fashion
*.
*Disclaimer: Do not attempt unless you're willing to spend many hours taping. I used white, orange and mixed my white and khaki to get a cream color. I also painted one small wall the same orange as the diamonds.
I painted over the wallpaper to get everything white. I also had to mud the seams so they wouldn't show.
I am a messy painter. I dropped a can and it exploded here.
The Wall. My Bane.
Let me just tell you I thought this would be much easier going in.
I thought I'd just have to tape everything off twice and paint my two colors.
Wrong.I may have done something wrong that made me have to tape off the diamonds three times--with one time cutting the tape to fit inside the diamond lines. If I messed up, I can't figure out where. It was hard.
The step-by-step process involves this:
1. Determine the width and height you want your diamonds.
2. Draw a wall of rectangles that match that height and width.
3. Once you have a wall full of rectangles, measure off the midpoint of each line in the rectangles.
4. Connect all the midpoints with a really long straight edge to form the diamond.
5. Tape. A lot.
6. Paint.
Finally finished!
I'm done!! And I've vowed to
not finish the rest of the house!!!
Apparently, I had started working on the Den Re-do. There were several layers of wallpaper on the lower half of the wall and the upper half was, and still is, paneling. In this picture I've completed the wallpaper removal, sloppy mudded for texture and painted the lower half of the wall.
Eventually I finished, though I don't remember how long it took. I glazed over the paint on the bottom half of the wall and painted the paneling. Ben built the mantel and shelves for the brick wall. I still need some cool decorations though. Maybe for Christmas...
This project was a bit tougher than the Tryde Table. You really need two people for this one. The plans are here and the whole project cost me about $35. We changed a few things up in the construction. We built the shelves a little sturdier and I changed the overall size and number of shelves. I like how I could modify it to fit the space I wanted, although that was one of the hard parts--we had to really pull from our geometry and algebra days!
Another project courtesy of Knock-Off Wood.
It's is roughly 5,000 people. Small to some I suppose.
I haven't used it a whole bunch but it does mean a lot to me.
I love living close to family. It's a big deal to me.
The step-by-step process involves this:
We lived in Provo, UT.
