Kitchen

April 16th, 2009

The new kitchen bar is coming along with the addition of my recently found Bertoia chairs. I just picked up a set of six that need some love, but for the price they were a steal. The other four will go on the patio right outside the kitchen.

Whats that lovely art you say? Above the awesome open storage? Oh yeah…

Spagat!

This lovely clown photo was the best of a stack of clown head shots from the seventies that I bought at a local Angel View Thrift. With a snazzy frame fom Target it looks like art.

He’s so drunk!

Here is a close up of my stuff on shelves. It will change…it always does…

**Maya – I finally got it! My very own Blabbermouth radio!

Exterior

April 16th, 2009

Over a year ago, when we first did our inspection – this is what the front of the house looked like…

And now?

It looks worse.

Here it is before the primed deck area. The boy has finished a lot of the priming…the only good thing to come out of unemployment.

This is all just primer and not the actual paint color…I know…it looks awful. Oh and that walkway? Its getting torn out, so I’m not sure why he primed it. I guess to just prime unnecessarily, or maybe to get rid of the maroon. We hate maroon.

*Good god we need a new roof. How do people pay for that?

I have plans for painting which include gray, yellow, and black in various shades with cedar slat sun screen on the front porch. Something like this, but cedar, and on the front porch, and not on wheels…



Or maybe just cover the whole house in slats and no would ever have to look at this eyesore again.

Suggestions? Anyone? Plllllleeeeaaassseee?

What is the perfect exterior light gray?

I’m feeling really depressed and unmotivated at this point and have been through literally 35 tester colors with no success.

Stupid brick house.

Blech.

Kitchen Bar

April 14th, 2009

Above is an older pic of the kitchen nook. We had this Ikea Melltorp table and pair of Saarinen chairs which in the end weren’t very convenient to sit in and took up a lot of space in our narrow galley style kitchen.

So while Craig built our lovely built-in bookshelves I asked to also have this bar built with the leftover wood – because I’m a dick.

I designed a little storage area to show off lovely cooking things.

Craig installed a wood support for the bar top on both walls.

The Boy and Craig are trying to level out the back support for the bar top.

All installed!

And for the big finish…I painted it up.

I have a new pair of chairs I recently picked up going here, which I’ll reveal later with the fully styled bookcases and breakfast bar!

*By styled I mean filled with crap.