Craft Room and Living Room

I've been up to a lot of projects lately...sometimes when my creative juices start to flow...I just can't stop it.  A few months back I organized my craft room a bit.  Nothing special here...but some fun and cheap organizational ideas.

This shelf used to be cupboards doors and a shelf.  Its now my ribbon holder as well.

Some old jars become some great "do-dad" holders.

A bunch of frames I had just sitting in the garage and a few $1 frames from DI.  Painted them all black, added some clips to the glass and leaning on the ledge heading down to our basement becomes the kids "art gallery".  Kya loves to draw me pictures and make "cards"...so this is how we display her artwork now.  I love it!

Remember these....I built these bookshelves out of old doors and paneling...but I got bored with them.

Found these spice cupboards at DI for $10.00...

With a little extra wood, I now have a country built in look.  I still have plans for the walls...changing the color again.  But I love my bookcases now.

New and Improved Blog

So I have been working on a lot of different projects and rather than clutter up my family blog with these posts...I have decided to turn this blog into my "creativity corner".  New posts coming soon.

Basement is done....wahoo!

Ok, finally the unveiling of our basement remodel. Its finally here. This (other than the kitchen of course) is probably the greatest change in the house. I am so glad that it is done, cause now we can live in it. Its been great to come down with the kids and play with them. I know Kya has loved the attention and play I'm giving her lately.

So I will give you a walk through tour with "Before and After" along the way. Its more fun to see the before and after right next to each other.

The stairs descending to the basement (duh!)

BEFORE

AFTER

The hallway to my office at the bottom of the stairs.

BEFORE

Midway

AFTER Ceiling BEFORE
Ceiling AFTER
My office

BEFORE

AFTER

The furnace out in the middle of the room...yuck, what an eye sore.

BEFORE Midway
AFTER No more eye sore...if you turn around on the other side of the entry room you see this.
TV room

BEFORE

Midway, we kind of moved in.

AFTER

I know, you can say it...pleasing to the eye now, right?

Carl's office/hobby room
BEFORE

AFTER Carl built the closets...what beautiful craftmanship. In another post, I will post the egressed(sp) windows that we put in. This has been a great project...so glad we are done.

Even the kids are able to enjoy it now.

Bookcases

I have always wanted bookcases flanking my couch, so I decided to make some. I bought some antiques five panel doors and here are the pics of before and afters.

Before

An old door (one that looked like this)......

....some paneling from my sister's house that they tore down.....

... and an old piece of MDF....

...some paint and style....

This is how they turned out

After

The pictures don't really show the detail in the sides from the doors, I will have to get some pics and get those up too.

Our basement is finally done. Stay tuned for a post of before and after of the basement. This is exciting. Probably the biggest changes.

Main Bathroom

Here is another update...figured I ought to get on it since we are moving in this weekend....WAHOO! So this is the main bathroom...really the main bathroom because the only other one in the house is in the master bedroom.

BEFORE

AFTER


BEFORE floors (hideous)



AFTER floors (beautiful tile work...done by me...if I do say so myself)
BEFORE
AFTER

(we go the pedestal sink from craigslist in Boise (thank you D.T.) for only $10. Lovin' it!

And for your enjoyment...a little decor. Those are brown towels if you can't tell from the picture.

This is the view BEFORE, that you get of the bathroom as you walk into the house.

And this is the AFTER view

And then just a few pics of us working on that hideous bathroom that is just gorgeous now. Totally patting ourselves on the back...can you tell. Carl probably trying to give me instructions....hey buddy, I am a pro (hee hee hee)

Nasty, disgusting old tub BEFORE
Beautiful, new tub AFTER (well IN BETWEEN stage)

Carl redid most of the plumbing (with help from J and J, thank you)

Cutting into the lathe (sp?) and plaster to fit the tub and other such troubleshooting.

Crazy how one UGLY thing can become something quite cute and enjoyable...yes even a bathroom.