Two packages arrived today – my teatowels from Skinny Laminx, and a surprise gift from my friend Lili (she’s just the sweetest)!
Handmade goodies can brighten anyone’s day, even when it’s been gloomy and rainy for nearly a week (as it has been in Chicago). Have you seen the flickr group “Good Mail Days”? I’m sure those folk would agree!
(Thank you, Lili!)
Brandon started priming the knotty pine in the stairway last night.
My dad was horrified when we said we planned to paint it. “That’s nice wood!” Sorry dad.
We actually found out from our neighbor that the previous owners had only recently put it up when they decided to sell! The addition was done sometime in the 50s (we think), so what was there before? Bare studs?
I’m not sure what color to go with now though.
You can see the stairway when you’re sitting in the living room and it opens up to the library, so obviously I want a color that will look good with both of the other rooms. You can also see into Brandon’s office when you’re in the living room (it’s on the same elevation), so there’s another color to consider. Oh, and the carpet is beige.
The living room has mustard/gold curtains and an orange chair, so I’m looking at those as possible choices. I also like pink (!), but I think the house has a lot of pink already and Brandon’s probably ready for a different color by now.
I’m going to change the curtains in the library, but I don’t know what I want yet. I have a bunch of Laceworks from Amy Butler that I bought for the room:
I’m not so sure about it now, but the fabric would work with the green ceiling in the library (“Flowering Herbs” by Benjamin Moore). I could repaint that if I need to, but I don’t want to. I’ve had enough of painting ceilings! If I go with that fabric, I could use the pink that’s in there… ;)
'F' for Fabric, Painting, Stairway
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August 16, 2007
The vendors for the 5th Annual Chicago Renegade Craft Fair have been posted!
Check ‘em out!
(click on “vendors”)
I’ll be there again, selling my lovely paper goods. Will I see you there?
Huzzah! Hooray! The bathroom is finished!
Most of the items are sourced in my last post, so check there if you want to know where everything came from.
So, yeah. I went with option #6, with the white vanity (Bathroom Redo [Renderings]). I was going to go for option #2 with the dark brown, but I changed my mind once we switched to the new, white medicine cabinet.
There are little vingnettes here and there, to distract you into thinking that the bathroom was not once an ugly, confused mess.
I actually think the bathroom is kinda cute now! And we did the whole thing for only a few hundred dollars, which was of course the goal. We also painted twice, which was not the goal (haha), to arrive at the lovely green we have now.
I even painted and brought the teal/turquoise color over by way of plastic bins to the storage area:
That’s “my side”. It wasn’t too bad before, but I thought “hey, why not double my work?” because that is how I roll. The frames that we had hung in our previous bathroom are up there now. They’re just ads from a British magazine (for Marks + Spencer), but I love them! I think they’re perfect over by my makeup and girly things.
Oh, and we hung a silver letter ‘B’.
‘B’ for Balch, ‘B’ for Blue, ‘B’ for Bathroom, ‘B’ for Better!
