We found a set of six of these chairs in the basement when we moved in. Here they are after a coat of the flat latex paint from the walls and a coat of semi-gloss varnish.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
New Old Chairs
We found a set of six of these chairs in the basement when we moved in. Here they are after a coat of the flat latex paint from the walls and a coat of semi-gloss varnish.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Painting Party
Before: The alcove in our kitchen in April of '08
After: The alcove after a little attention in February '09.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Time for the Before and After Shots
After: The back patio
Before: Miss Havisham's South Philly enclave
After: Our bedroom-minus many layers of wall paper, one drop ceiling, a few layers of linoleum and carpet, and prison-like bars of the windows.
Before:
After: the blue bathroom
Before: that bunny on the back of the blue toilet was a cotton ball dispenser. To use: simply yank off the bunnies charming cotton-ball tail and another will appear in its place.
The mysterious shallow, locked closet in the guest room that Jill decided should be used for arty displays. Any guesses on its intended purpose? Guns? Trophies?
The vestibule-you'll notice that we kept the cherubic switch plate cover after a fixing the cracks and adding a coat of paint.
Before: Miss Havisham's South Philly enclave
After: Our bedroom-minus many layers of wall paper, one drop ceiling, a few layers of linoleum and carpet, and prison-like bars of the windows.
Before:
After: the blue bathroom
Before: that bunny on the back of the blue toilet was a cotton ball dispenser. To use: simply yank off the bunnies charming cotton-ball tail and another will appear in its place.
The mysterious shallow, locked closet in the guest room that Jill decided should be used for arty displays. Any guesses on its intended purpose? Guns? Trophies?
The vestibule-you'll notice that we kept the cherubic switch plate cover after a fixing the cracks and adding a coat of paint.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
At Work w/ Freedman - 7/18-7/20
Our budding-architect friend Michael was up from NC for a visit this weekend.
Here he is ripping the paneling off of our den. Look, John's clothes! This particular closet does, in fact, open in the next room over as well.
Tetanus is for kids!
The week before, we had all-new windows installed in the back of the house. They're "low-E" windows, which sounds awesome even if you don't know what it means.
We're painting most of the house in modest, restrained colors, so it seemed like the lawn furniture could use a little punching up.
The Cedar Chest - 7/13/08
Jill's dad built this great cedar chest for us to store blankets, etc. It's also a pretty great bench and/or TV table.
I don't have to tell you: this smells pretty rad.
Meal 1 in the New Place
Keeping things pretty simple at this point.
Our makeshift living/dining/TV alcove. Note the sweet coffee table.
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