Making it Lovely
Transforming the so-so.
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No More Popcorn Ceiling
January 5, 2009
The popcorn has given way to a smooth, flat ceiling, thanks to Brandon’s hard work. As I mentioned before, the ceiling did not contain asbestos (always check before removing because many popcorn ceilings do), so we felt comfortable trying to remove it. It came down easily enough in just a few hours (he sprayed it with water and scraped it off), but smoothing the resulting mess took a little longer. He did a rough sanding (60 grit) first, wiped all of the dust away with a damp cloth, smoothed over all of the imperfections with joint compound, and then sanded everything again (220 grit). […]
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Popcorn Ceiling
December 31, 2008
Finally, after living here for almost two years, the popcorn ceiling in the guest room (soon to be nursery) will be coming down. I’ve been careful to photograph the room and conveniently leave the ceiling out of the picture. See? Looks nice, right? …Until you actually see what’s above your head. […]
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The Guest Room!
March 28, 2008
Painted, furnished, finished! For now, at least. There are still a few things I’d like to do, but they can definitely wait. My poor friend Lili – she stayed in it back when it looked like this: Lili, you must come again because now it looks like this: I moved the brackets for the curtain rod [...]
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Brandon Must Really Love Me
February 16, 2008
…to put up with the things I do around here sometimes. Here’s my furniture warehouse. Er, I mean the dining room and living room. And then there’s the guest room upstairs which has been in shambles for the past week. He’s been making fun of me because apparently, at some point, I boasted to him about how I always finish my projects in a timely manner. Yeah.
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Whew!
November 18, 2007
I have been a very busy lady. Thursday The guest room was finished up as well as it could be. I’m going to order the Marimekko Lumimarja fabric for the windows. The friendly people over at Finnstyle are offering me (and you) 15% off until Friday! Just enter “makingitlovely” when you check out. Here’s the way the room turned out for now […]
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