Home Improvement/Repair

When will the home improvement projects end?!! NEVER! There is always something to repair or improve when you buy a home. And when you are a perfectionist and you marry a perfectionist it seems that sometimes you keep redoing the same projects over and over until they are perfect!!

Take our kitchen for example...

We painted this wall several times until we thought we had the perfect color!

It wasn't quite perfect yet....so we tried a few different colors!

We mixed and mixed different shades until we finally finally found the right shade!

Done & Done! I don't know how we ended up finding the perfect color, but somehow we mixed the right colors together and took it in to the paint store and they color matched it for us!

This is the before picture:

This is the after picture:

Nate did an awesome job on the tile! I'm so glad he has that skill and enjoys doing it! The pictures really don't do justice, it looks even better in person! We love how the back-splash ties all the kitchen together.


Next we have the family room....
We went with the same approach in finding a color as we did with the kitchen! We borrowed a few colors and starting mixing and painting color samples on our wall!

Here is our paint supplies! It's actually kind of fun to mix colors and paint them randomly on the wall!

Every color was so different and although they seemed like a good color most of them just weren't what we were going for! It was nothing short of a miracle that we found the perfect tan color.

Here is the before:

Here is the after....

It actually looks quite similar to the previous color, but it's a lot lighter, less red, and the perfect tan!

Before:

After:

Last is the front room....

The color of the front room was a 'smokey taupe' color! Not bad, but I hated it! It needed something fresh and new! So went with the same colors as the family room/kitchen to give the house a feeling of unity and to help make it flow...plus we loved the colors we previously used and were tired of trying to pick out the perfect colors!

Before:

After:

This room isn't quite done yet! One of our next projects is to redo the fireplace with stacked rocks. We also want to replace the carpet, and find a new light fixture!!! .....it never ends!

The other project that I've been working on in the hallway/front room is the crown molding! What a pain! The previous owners put up the crown molding but did a terrible job and did not finish it! So I spent many hours filling in the gaps with spackle and sanding the seems. It was not easy--but I must admit it looks amazing now that it's done!

Before:

After:

When people come to our house, they often ask if the crown molding is new! Once it was done right and painted it stands out more and gives it brand new look!

Oh the joys! Really I do enjoy fixing things up and making them look better. It's amazing with a little work how much better something can be! I have to give credit to my folks for helping me out! My dad came down and helped me repair some big holes in the walls and taught me how to do the crown molding. And my mom came down and helped me with all the painting! I'd probably still be working on these projects had they not come down and helped! Thanks Mimi & Papa for your help and support!