The other day I was cruising the comments and responding to dear readers, when one of my favorite readers (who am I kidding…it’s like picking children…you’re all my favorite readers) asked me a paint color question. And as a self proclaimed paint fanatic (seriously…I am borderline depressed that I have no more rooms to paint in our house…someone medicate me), I felt obligated to share my knowledge of the paint [...]
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So this happened this weekend. First aid cabinet go boom! Ever since we posted these little pics of the bathroom, after we first painted it a minty green, I knew that I wanted to fill that empty space above the toilet paper holder with a first aid cabinet. So the other day, when I went down to the Brewer School House Antique Mall, I super scored on the purchase of [...]
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It took us a couple of weeks, but we recently took our bathroom from this: To this: Boom! And might I remind you that it used to look like this: Double boom! Any excuse to whip out that picture. Man…our bathroom was a whole lotta ugly! And cramped. Opening it up and removing all the strange nooks made a world of difference. And now with a lighter, more airy hue [...]
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So we’ve shown you the progress we made with the bathroom vanity(a Craigslist buffet find, that we modified, and then painted Gray Owl by Benjamin Moore) but we haven’t yet shown you the bathroom progress. Game day bucket go boom: We’ve been busy bees. Can you tell?! We not only removed the “temporary”, been there for three years, painted plywood vanity this past weekend, but we also patched the walls, [...]
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Ding dong the witch is dead vanity is done. And all it took was two solid weekends of priming and painting. I wish I was kidding. And of course, in true Angie fashion, I anticipated total painting time of about four hours max…wrong! More like four hours max just to prime the body of the thing! Isn’t that always the case? Please tell me I’m not the only one who way [...]
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This past weekend, I spent some serious time painting the bathroom vanity that we found via Craigslist. And I’m sure you’re all a little bit curious about the paint colors, not just for the vanity but for the entire bathroom makeover. After a series careful deliberations, Colby and I finally decided on pink…bubblegum pink. You like-ie?! And this is just the beginning of the bathroom makeover. We’re thinking of a [...]
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10 Comments I’m getting ahead of myself tonight with this project. Or maybe I’m just REALLY behind. Depends on how you look at it. Kind of like one of those glass is half empty or half full kind of deals. So I painted a bookcase green and plopped it into the guest bedroom. Game day bucket go boom! There is no other furniture in the guest bedroom (no bed, no nightstand, no [...]
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4 Comments We finally did it…we bit the bullet and invested in a real light fixture in our master bedroom. Not gonna lie…we haven’t had an overhead light fixture in this room since we moved in nearly three years ago thanks to a little Colby breaking it while trying to get into the attic incident. Anyway…meet our new light fixture…Glinda…the gilded flush mount…aka the good light fixture of the North. Glinda didn’t [...]
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And just like that, our guest bedroom is officially painted. Booyah. I wish I could tell you that we “hemmed and hawed” over the wall color, tested out the paint chips in the room during various times of day and light, and made an informed decision after serious deliberations. But I can’t. Instead, I turned to the Privet House for Target napkins that I picked up last year (they’re my [...]
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Saturday morning, while it was hardcore snowing outside, we brought the white out inside and primed up the guest bedroom. All it took was a couple of hours time and a gallon of primer to achieve the little white box. Not gonna lie…I’m pretty sure this is the best the room has ever looked! It’s so clean in there…and echo-ie! And as I look into our own little white box, I [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Cubbby organizer
Chick feeder as shelf
Tin caddy tutorial, maybe a lazy susan in the craft room for commonly used items
