Bathroom in transition...

Our Inspiration photos: my drawing of custom cabinet: Window Trim 15 layers of paint down to the wood:

Down to the plaster:

Hanging the drywall:

Muddddddddddd:

Primer:

Hanging wainscoting:

The start of the custom cabinet:

Bathroom soooooo close to being complete:

BATHROOM

I promise to have new bathroom pics up this weekend!!!

An Old Mantel

We bought the mantel for $40.00 at a store on The Avenue (36th Street). It looked like it needed a good home so home we brought it! Our thoughts were to paint it and set it up in the dinning room. Once we got it home I quickly realized that the wood is not that great. I had to sand it down and fill in a lot of cracks from being so dry and old. The good news was it had never been painted so I didn’t have to stripe it down.

When we bought the mantel it was in a few different pieces. Once I put it back together I noticed some wood was missing. Off to the Home Depot for some wood and some trim pieces. We decided on the Rope trim piece to hide one big seam. I thought it would look nice with the legs of the mantel.

I will have updated pictures soon!

Non House Related Fun...

Saturday February 14th we went to the Baltimore Museum of Industry (thebmi.org). This was a fun day. We entered the Confection Architecture Contest. We decided to construct the Latrobe Pavilion that is in Druid Hill Park overlooking the lake.
We built the structure out of cardboard and did all the details in candy, cookie and frosting.

Although there were only about 10 different teams that were participating we still had a great time. We will go back next year….I hope with more people.

We came in 2nd for our age group (18 and older).

Swedish Fish, Gummy Worms, Caramel Candy, Otterbein Cookies, white frosting and hand dyed green marshmallows were our confections of choice.

Here are some of the competition…

A Dining Room in the works!

First: we had the floors refinished (more on that later in another post)!

Second: since we had no table, we decided to start shopping! We wanted something very specific. A large ALL white table made of wood! We looked online, went to many stores asking for a large all white table. We were getting disappointed fast. One day we walked up to The Avenue (which is one block from our house) and went to Red Tree to just look around as usual. We love that store and spend a long time in there just looking around on a regular bases. We saw this table that was huge and loved it so much. The problem was it had red legs and a brown mahogany stained top. Not exactly what we wanted. This super nice guy came over and started to tell us about the table. We saw in their catalog that you could order any color legs. They had a very nice white leg. I told him this would be perfect if the top was white. Well, good news he says you can customize the whole table including the top! We ordered our table that very day! The thing was it was not coming in for about 6 weeks. This was fine with us since we needed to get our floors refinished first. The people at Red Tree were amazing! They are all so nice and very helpful. We didn’t order our chairs at the same time. We couldn’t decide then what we wanted. We finally now have a complete set! We are in love with the whole thing. The chairs couldn’t be more comfortable. The table is amazing!

Table and chairs are completely hand made in Malaysia
Table is 4’x7’ built from Mahogany wood

We Love RED TREE!

http://www.redtreebaltimore.com/

Current work: That Bad Bad Bathroom

Enter the bathroom through this beautiful accordion door…


Take a look at the wonderful wallpaper, drop ceiling, oak medicine cabinet, oak vanity, country blue trim and fluorescent light.

Note: There were no outlets in the bathroom.

The short term plan was to remove the wallpaper and paint the walls…but it didn’t really work out that way! We thought this might take us a day or two, but has taken us much much longer.

Once we removed the wall paper we noticed that the walls were not so normal underneath. The walls were covered in linoleum. YES the stuff you usually put on the floor. Why we didn’t take a picture of that is beyond me. It was a very pretty goldenrod yellow with brown flowers. So nice! Next we decided that we need to remove that from the walls along with the drop ceiling.

more to come...