Hi Everyone!
Ya'll may remember that a couple of years ago, i yanked up the carpet in my bedroom and replaced it with plywood cut into planks so that they would look like rustic wood floors. I still love them. I painted the plywood with a wash of Annie Sloan paint in "Old White" and water, and then sealed them with "Stay Clear" and I'm happy to tell you that they have held up great!
Finally a couple of weeks ago i was able to do the same thing in the living room. Yay!
I hired someone to do it because I'm getting too old to crawl around on the floor and pull up carpet and stuff, and I just didn't want to - ya know...?! I'm not as tough and sinewy as I used to be and i don't want to spend one minute of my what's left of my life pulling up carpet and carpet nail strips...
I don't have many pictures to show you yet, but this will give you an idea...
the total cost for supplies, wood, having the wood cut, the nails, and the glue was $340.00
Here's how it looks before the Annie Sloan wash - I won't show pulling up that nasty old carpet!
this photo was so cloudy even after i touched it up in Picassa, my phone camera lens must have smudges on it... but you can still kinda see the floors...
sorry, i don't have better pics, but during the day I'm at work, at night it is just too dark for photos...
and on the weekends I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off so i forget to take good photos..
I love these floors so much better than carpet.
They even smell good like fresh wood
Everything got stirred up and I had to move stuff into the dining room to clear out the living room. I moved this mirrored chippy door against the wall in the dining room to get it out of the way and decided I like it there!
My daughter says i have too many mirrors in my house, and she always thinks she's going to see a ghost in them - she thinks they are all haunted
She's a nut!
Wonder where she inherited those genes?
But I do remember mirrors giving me the heebeegeebees when i was young - so i don't know what that's about
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ok, so check out this little boot garland i made...
it was a fun and easy project
I just used this wrapped wire i found at Michaels.
I love this viney wire stuff...
you can do all kinds of things with it
Then i intertwined flowers and ribbons I had into it - made a little loop on one end and hook on the other and it was done...
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Also since I talked to ya'll last I worked on (fought with) a painting on and off for the last few weekends...
I kept not liking it and couldn't figure out why - my daughter is my best critic and she was visiting - so i asked her "what's wrong with it?!" ...and she said there was too much brown ( the cows were brown) - so i painted the cows black and voila it all started to come together! I love it when that happens... and she's always right!
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I received my copy of Romantic Prairie Weddings by Fifi O'Neill... and it is so pretty - every single page is just luscious. I especially like the doors draped with pale pink rose garlands... they're just to die for gorgeous
Fifi says she might come to my house in the spring - so here come the 90 nervous breakdowns about all my messes ... but exciting too!
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So finally - check this out....
I opened my cabinet to get some olive oil, and what did i find....
Willow - "the destructor", kitty litter flinger, and slip cover shredder...
Lord only knows how long she was sittin in there just as pretty as you please..
...cats!..
...the end...
