I’ve been DIYing my manner by our home for a really very long time now. And consequently, there’s not a single floor in a single room that I haven’t undone, redone, rebuilt, remade, custom-made, or embellished ultimately. I can’t even describe how a lot satisfaction I’ve wanting round our home and seeing “me” — my onerous work, sweat, tears, blood, willpower, imaginative and prescient, execution — in actually each room, each floor, each nook and cranny of our home.
Yesterday, I used to be wanting round, taking stock of what I’ve carried out, remembering the journey, appreciating the teachings alongside the way in which, and attempting to find out what my general favourite initiatives have been. I believe my favorites change on occasion, however as of this second, these are my high ten favorites.
1. Music Room Bookcases & Doorways
The bookcases and doorways within the music room are positively a high 10 favourite, not solely as a result of I believe they make the room, however as a result of it was a quite huge constructing challenge that I took on fairly early. And I used to be actually happy with the design that I got here up with to faux the look of pocket doorways with out really tearing down partitions to make actual pocket doorways.
Right here’s what this wall of the music room regarded like after we purchased the home. This was the unique exterior door that went out to the again yard. The “sunroom” behind it was added on later. So this wall is an exterior load bearing wall, and I didn’t need to should reconstruct it to make actual pocket doorways.
2. Visitor Bed room Partitions
I really like these partitions as a result of it seems to be like wallpaper, however this design price me lower than $100 — the price of a gallon of paint and some paint pens. Utilizing an overhead projector and a design that my mother and I got here up with, I projected the design onto the partitions, and commenced to hint. It was really easy to do, and gave this wall a huge impact within the room. You can see more about the project here. And you can download my floral wall design here.
3. Toilet Cupboard
This cupboard could very nicely be my favourite factor in our grasp rest room. I used two leftover French doorways (doorways that I had initially used on our pantry) as inspiration for the cupboard. After chopping them right down to look extra like cupboard doorways, I constructed a cupboard round them, and loaded it up with rest room gadgets. It match into our water closet completely. You can see the details of this build here.
4. Dwelling Room Hearth
The primary time I noticed our lounge, I knew that the area between the 2 facet home windows wanted a fire. I didn’t even care if it was a working fire or not. It simply wanted the architectural element of a hearth, for my part.
5. Kitchen Cased Opening
It’s onerous for me to now think about our kitchen with a stable wall right here, however that is what the kitchen regarded like after the primary transform.
It wasn’t till after that transform that I made a decision the wall wanted a cased opening. And although that could be a load-bearing wall, I knew I may do it myself. After watching could movies about how one can put a cased opening in a load-bearing wall (with a particular because of This Previous Home for having the most effective and most thorough rationalization), I made a decision to go for it. And I’m so glad I did, as a result of this opening made such an enormous completely different in the feel and appear of our kitchen!
7. Dwelling Room Spoon Artwork
I needed to embrace my absolute favourite piece of paintings that I’ve ever made in my checklist. This colourful pinwheel is made out of over 800 wood tasting spoons. I painstakingly reduce all the handles off, sanded each bit, glued them into place, painted every one, after which added gold accents to the information of every spoon. After which I made a shadow box frame for it. That is, arms down, my favourite artwork piece I’ve ever made. And I really like watching individuals’s expressions once I inform them I made it, and that it’s made out of spoons.
8. Toilet Bubble Gentle
This bubble mild is the crown jewel in our rest room, in my humble opinion. I made it out of Christmas ornaments, and even now, over a yr later, I nonetheless like to stare at it.
9. Toilet Vanities & Storage Cupboard
These DIY vanities and storage cabinet have been my most difficult constructing challenge up to now. Since I wasn’t going to color the vanities and cupboard, I wasn’t in a position to depend on wooden filler and caulk to make up for my lack of imperfections within the constructing course of. So I needed to take further care and further time to get issues proper. It was my most difficult construct up to now, however it has additionally been my most rewarding.
10. Dwelling Gymnasium Striped Partitions
With my love of coloration and stripes, our striped home gym walls clearly should be included in my checklist. This challenge was such a ache, as I needed to measure and tape off each single stripe with 1/4-inch tape, after which the tape didn’t come off cleanly, so I had to take action many repairs! It was an entire nightmare, however I’m so glad I persevered and didn’t name it quits. It’s so invigorating being on this room, surrounded by a lot coloration. In all, I used 15 completely different colours to color the stripes in right here.
So these are my high 10 proper now. If I waited one other month and did a high 10 checklist, the checklist could look just a little completely different. However I’m so grateful for this journey, and for the abilities and classes I’ve realized alongside the way in which. And I completely love dwelling in a house the place I can go searching and see the fruit of the labor of my very own arms in each room and each floor. It’s so satisfying!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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