Antique Makeover

My husband went to our routine antique stores a few weeks ago and found 2 treasures that I love. Not sure what exactly they were used for but we are going to use them as our nightstands in our new master bedroom.

I asked my husband to not wake me up this morning, but I guess he let that go in one ear and out the other and instead woke me up. Even though it was 10 AM, I wanted to continue to sleep until my body would no longer let me. He was rather excited about the day we had planned. Last night we made a list of the things we wanted to accomplish today and we got most of it finished in just about 7 hours!

First I asked him to finally finished our spool table project that had been almost finished for about 3 weeks now. All he had to do was attach the legs. He wrapped that up quickly.

Then we moved on to refinishing our nightstands. After scuffing them up and removing the hardware, I started the painting process. The guy at the antique store gave us good pointers when we picked out the paint last night. We decided on a milk paint called “Lamp Black.” I love it! After two coats they were ready to dry and be put back together. After we reattached all the hardware, I distressed them slightly to add a little imperfection to it. I’m very happy with outcome of them and hope you love them as well!

Jarrod also found some great kitchen chairs that we will be refinishing soon. They are Ethan Allen by Baumritter. Stay tuned!

Last words: my husband works very hard to make me happy and I couldn’t ask for a better “workshop” partner! He’s the best!

-Molly

Solid Foundation

After a week of vacationing in Destin, FL we come back to foundation walls and soon to be brick!

   
 

Footings Finally

So finally I am excited to say that we now have officially started our house. Yesterday the footers were dug and today the concrete footings are in! I went by to meet with the bulldozer guys and got them to give a quote for clearing the back of the lot all the way down to the creek. And now this afternoon it’s being done and will be piled up so we can burn all the brush! Can’t wait to see it cleared, it will make the backyard seem even larger. It’s going to be nice to go on vacation and then come back and who knows what it will look like in one weeks time! 

Here’s the pictures so far:

    
  

Next post it will be cleared off!  

Saturday’s Project

So first off i would like to start off by thanking my wife for the patience it took to make this project turn out as good as it has!

Now, So what is this project? Its an antique glider bench…- the glider+rust+broken frame=Beautiful bench, well we haven’t been able to get the = Beautiful Bench quite yet.

First with the talents of my wife she sanded her little heart out! Then she preceded to tape off the soon to be ‘off-white’  areas, this was accomplished with much success and left me thinking…”OK stop you’re done” but i stopped myself from speaking.

Now since i knew ‘we’ (by we i mean Molly) were on to painting the classic green my ‘OCD’ started kicking in. As i am standing over my oh so patient wife while she is taping i realized how annoying that can be and instead went to work on my project for the day. Enough with the jabbering. Here is the final product.

On to the next one!

Dynamic Duo

Batman and Robin can’t match the team my beautiful wife and I make. Today we met with the Designer that works with our builder and made some difficult choices. However much to my surprise Molly was somehow able to get the decisive Jarrod to show up and help make decisions.

First stop Creek’s Cabinetry. The doors were stacked up all over the table yet the one we decided on was right on top and just perfect. We were able to walk out into the shop and see the faces complete on cabinets they were building for another client. After this we had the tough decision of picking out hardware. Who knew there were so many choices?? after looking around we made a pretty good decision that looks super high end but ended up being still in budget. So here are a few pictures. Drawer Front and Door Fronts.

And here is the same cabinets in one of the homes Waters-Holland has currently for sale. Although we are choosing to stain rather than have painted in the kitchen and the guest bath. We will have the same style in white for the master bath.

Following the visit to Oxford Park we made the journey downtown to the granite warehouse. where it seemed difficult to decide, granite is a big piece of the kitchen! As i was swatted at and told no for my first choice for the kitchen, we walked around hunting granite in the budget…. And couldn’t find non cookie cutter house granite. But for just a tad over budget we found a beautiful Leather rubbed charcoal granite. and decided on it for the master bath tops. We then left with a decision that wasn’t settling well with me for the kitchen. Boy was i thankful when after starting to drive in the car to the next stop that she decided it wasn’t the right one. The one i had my eye on at the beginning was the one we decided on, a beautiful White Carrara marble!

Last stop for the day was at Louisville Tile where i felt like my head was going to explode, until i calmed down and stuck with the plan we had all along. Subway Tile, Subway Tile, SUBWAY TILE!!! As much as i would love to spill all the details here, I’m not. Keep an eye out for all the details but i will leave you with a teaser picture.