Faux Silver Finishes

First of all, I forgot to post this baroque bathroom pic yetserday: Pretty no? It has an accent wall like Iloveupstate suggested! Last night I added about 10 shades of gray to my already absurdly large collection of BM sample pots. But I may return nine of them because I fell in love with the […]

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Baroque Brocade Bathroom Inspiration

I can’t possibly write a real post today, my head is swimming with random ideas and bits of information on wall treatments and how I can get a metallic-ish, brocade-ish, baroque-ish feel in the powder room. So here’s a little pictoral peak inside the madness: (image from Decor8 archives) from Brocade Home Farrow & Ball […]

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Preparation for the Housewarming Party

…that may never come. I’m having a terrible time picking a date when our small handful of close friends will be available. So instead, we decided to have a few people who are around this holiday weekend over for a small gathering this Sunday and schedule a bigger to-do for the last week in September […]

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Powder Room Progress – (Though it doesn’t look like it)

The weekend started with a trip to Lowes Friday Night to look for a pedestal sink. Jeff decided to head out to the garden section (which is outdoors) to look for a large planter. Spotting one he liked on the shelf above his head, he tilted it towards him to look inside. Big mistake! Jeff […]

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Yay, Jeff Comes Home Today!

So I can finally reveal the ultimate reason almost nothing has gotten done in past 10 days – Jeff’s been away on a business trip! (I was hesitant to broadcast over the world wide web that I was home alone or I would have mentioned it earlier.) So now that we’ve set a date for […]

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The Stencil Project Progress

I downloaded the pink image from istockphoto which cost 3 credits (about $3.40?) which was perfect because that’s how much I had in my account balance from people who have downloaded the two photographs I ‘ve had up there for a year or so. Yes, they are quite popular. Then I got out my stencil […]

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Belated Weekend Update – In which the fireplace gets a new coat of paint.

Ok, I have my camera cord! So here’s the result of this weekend’s progress..or lack therof. But I DO have a semi-decent excuse for my lack of productivity, Saturday was my grandma’s 85 b’day party over in Stroudsburg PA, so I only really had one day to work on the house.   Here’s my Grandma Eunice, […]

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Making My Own Stencil – Uh Oh.

As predicted, I made almost NO progress this weekend. Well I did paint the fireplace white, but I brought my ipod cable instead of my camera cable to work today, so no after pics until tomorrow.. No weekend would be complete without a trip to target of course, and while there I found these silver […]

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Weekend Plans – Make a Damn Decision!

Here’s where my mind has been the past few days…follow if you dare! (Or just want to get really dizzy.) Battle of the Blinds  I don’t know if you remember that I decided I wanted roller shades as undertreatments in the living room because they have a smaller profile when in the “up” state. Well […]

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More half (baked?) bath ideas..

Even though I spent ALL day yesterday looking for wallpaper, I decided to go with Liz‘s fab idea of stenciling instead because, as Alana pointed out, wallpapering a small bathroom is HARD! So even though my search was for naught, I thought I’d share some of the amazing eye candy I turned up from euro […]

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