The space of nothing

Part of what won us over when looking at this house was all of the beautiful built-in wooden furniture.
My absolute favorite is our china cabinet.  The previous owner did an AMAZING job on this.  Glass shelves, lighting, beautiful finish.

This pic was taken just after we moved in, so we were still filling it up.

See the space in the middle?  Where those bowls are?  It quickly became a space of nothing.  There isn't a light under there, so it was always a little dark, which made it easy to just throw things and not give them another thought.  Kinda like this...

We needed to remedy this situation, so we started with the idea of making it a drink station.  First thing was taking this lovely wooden tray, one of my very first DIY projects...incase you can't tell (maybe I'm being arrogant but I think I've come a long way), and giving it new life with....you guessed it...SPRAY PAINT!

Sweet wine bottle holder from our good friend Scot.

Finished product! Doesn't that tray look SOOO much better?!?!

Kitchen update

We are busy little bees here (as always) working on projects, but I think there are quite a few that I haven't updated you on, so lets get started.

Have you seen the kitchen???  Remember how there was SO. MUCH. WOOD.???? Not so much anymore!

What we saw when we took the end off.

We felt a little like Dexter with the walls draped in plastic, but Olive seemed to like it and it kept the paint off the counters.

Caught someone in the fridge...

WHOA!  Checkout that red!  And that wooden rooster.

Open door policy

We've been living without a bathroom door for 2 days now.  Some of you might be thinking YIKES, but really, it hasn't phased us in the least.

See, with a cat who feels the need to be involved in everything, if you go in the bathroom (for ANY reason) and latch the door closed with her on the other side, you spend the entire time listening to her paw at the door and cry.  That would be little miss Olive.  

Yes, this picture does capture her in a "normal" state...which, for her, is INSANE!


So back to the door thing...

Our friends laugh at what they call our "open door policy", which is maybe TMI for some of you, but we aren't big on privacy in our house/marriage.  No matter what either of us is doing, the other is welcome to come into whatever room, during whatever event.  Changing clothes? Come on in! Talking on the phone? Be my guest! Taking a seat on the potty? Come talk about your day!  Why not???

So living without a bathroom door hasn't phased us, but we have guests coming this weekend.  They will probably want to "sit" and shower alone dontcha think? Although Olive will stick her paws under the door in hopes that someday she'll fit in that small space between the door and the floor...and Izzy will stare at her like she's insane (cuz she is).

Reason we have no door??  Biggest project of our lives thus far....painting ALL of the wood trim and ALL of the doors in our house.  Stay tuned!

Spray paint makes everything better

So months and months ago, I said "we're painting the hallway", then "we didn't start yet", next "we purchased the paint". 

Well, we DID paint the hallway shortly after that, and apparently I never got around to sharing the pics (how does this happen?).

No, we did not spray paint the hallway.

HOWEVER, after the hallway was painted a lovely shade of grey (which I will share in full at some point, of nice angled views of the completed project with frames hung and all), I decided this door bell cover needed a SERIOUS face lift.  YUCK

As if the crack in the front of this thing, and the AWFUL shade of yellow were not bad enough, then there were shiny gold "accents", and coming from a girl who LOVES gaudy and over the top, you KNOW it must be bad.

So, my solution?  rip it off the wall, get rid of that gold, and bust out the spray paint!

It is now a running joke between Eric and I that everytime I want to change something he says "Let me guess, we should spray paint it?".  But honestly, how much better is it now?!?!  The crack is hardly noticeable (replacing this cover is not easy...we tried), and it looks so crisp and clean now.