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Bedroom makeover

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Things have been happening to the interior of the Brick House. I’ve been plugging away on the master bedroom – switching up the space plan, replacing the horrid mini blinds and getting rid of the curtains altogether.

Below is how the bedroom was…blah…

Here is a sneaky preview of how it is now.

Black and white makes it mysterious.
I bet you can’t wait for better images – I know I can’t! I need some daylight for picture taking…and work gets in the way.

There is still a bit more to be done. The big thing was replacing the gross mini blinds with all new Ikea ENJE roller shades after the curtains turned into a giant disaster. I love Ikea’s affordable roller blinds and have started installing them throughout the house for privacy and light filtering. I think I’m now in the camp of NO MORE WINDOW DRESSING. Stupid curtains – they get so fussy and dusty – I think I’m all about minimal windows.

More white EVERYWHERE – waaa ha ha ha.

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Bedroom Curtains…

Monday, September 8th, 2008

and I don’t mean the meaty kind.

I hated the curtain rods in the bedroom – above is an old shot. I started thinking about doing a turnbuckle curtain wire system…like these featured on Apartment Therapy – and I used these instructions.

Here are some of my supplies. I used the Apartment Therapy step by step to install the wire on the back wall and wrapped it around the corner using the eyelet thing below to cover the side wall.

Heres my corner eyelet thing.

Here is the turnbuckle with the wire clamped on…exciting!



Here (finally) is a small preview of the whole thing put together. I used those DIGNITET clips from Ikea and I’m still working out the kinks…more soon…

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Closet

Monday, June 16th, 2008

FINALLY!
I finished the closet this weekend. Well, that’s a lie, it is almost done. I still need to touch up paint and put bar pulls on the upper cabinet. But for now it looks pretty complete. Here’s the closet progression over the last few months.


And just to emphasis the HORROR that was the master bedroom…a few more lovely shots of the paint job before we moved in. It took 3 coats of Kilz and 3 coats of Behr Ultra Pure White to cover that mess. You can also see where we refinished the floors (both bedrooms had the wood floors painted white! I’m not sure why – the wood was in great shape.)

Some BEFORE and AFTER hotness:



Oh yeah, it feels good to be a gangsta.

Heres some more AFTER shots cause I just can’t stop myself…

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