I’ve been DIYing my method by our home for a really very long time now. And because of this, there’s not a single floor in a single room that I haven’t undone, redone, rebuilt, remade, custom-made, or adorned in a roundabout way. I can’t even describe how a lot satisfaction I’ve wanting round our home and seeing “me” — my laborious work, sweat, tears, blood, willpower, imaginative and prescient, execution — in actually each room, each floor, each nook and cranny of our home.
Yesterday, I used to be wanting round, taking stock of what I’ve executed, remembering the journey, appreciating the teachings alongside the best way, and attempting to find out what my total favourite initiatives have been. I feel my favorites change sometimes, however as of this second, these are my high ten favorites.
1. Music Room Bookcases & Doorways
The bookcases and doorways within the music room are positively a high 10 favourite, not solely as a result of I feel they make the room, however as a result of it was a somewhat large constructing mission that I took on fairly early. And I used to be actually pleased with the design that I got here up with to pretend the look of pocket doorways with out really tearing down partitions to make actual pocket doorways.
Right here’s what this wall of the music room seemed like after we purchased the home. This was the unique exterior door that went out to the again yard. The “sunroom” behind it was added on later. So this wall is an exterior load bearing wall, and I didn’t wish to need to reconstruct it to make actual pocket doorways.
2. Visitor Bed room Partitions
I like these partitions as a result of it appears like wallpaper, however this design value me lower than $100 — the price of a gallon of paint and some paint pens. Utilizing an overhead projector and a design that my mother and I got here up with, I projected the design onto the partitions, and commenced to hint. It was really easy to do, and gave this wall a huge impact within the room. You can see more about the project here. And you can download my floral wall design here.
3. Rest room Cupboard
This cupboard could very nicely be my favourite factor in our grasp toilet. I used two leftover French doorways (doorways that I had initially used on our pantry) as inspiration for the cupboard. After reducing them all the way down to look extra like cupboard doorways, I constructed a cupboard round them, and loaded it up with toilet objects. It match into our water closet completely. You can see the details of this build here.
4. Residing Room Hearth
The primary time I noticed our front room, I knew that the area between the 2 facet home windows wanted a fire. I didn’t even care if it was a working hearth or not. It simply wanted the architectural element of a fireside, for my part.
5. Kitchen Cased Opening
It’s laborious for me to now think about our kitchen with a stable wall right here, however that is what the kitchen seemed like after the primary transform.
It wasn’t till after that transform that I made a decision the wall wanted a cased opening. And regardless that that may be a load-bearing wall, I knew I may do it myself. After watching could movies about easy methods to put a cased opening in a load-bearing wall (with a particular because of This Previous Home for having one of the best and most thorough rationalization), I made a decision to go for it. And I’m so glad I did, as a result of this opening made such an enormous totally different in the feel and appear of our kitchen!
7. Residing Room Spoon Artwork
I needed to embody my absolute favourite piece of paintings that I’ve ever made in my checklist. This colourful pinwheel is made out of over 800 wood tasting spoons. I painstakingly minimize all the handles off, sanded each bit, glued them into place, painted each, after which added gold accents to the guidelines of every spoon. After which I made a shadow box frame for it. That is, palms down, my favourite artwork piece I’ve ever made. And I like watching individuals’s expressions once I inform them I made it, and that it’s made out of spoons.
8. Rest room Bubble Mild
This bubble mild is the crown jewel in our toilet, in my humble opinion. I made it out of Christmas ornaments, and even now, over a yr later, I nonetheless like to stare at it.
9. Rest room Vanities & Storage Cupboard
These DIY vanities and storage cabinet have been my most difficult constructing mission thus far. Since I wasn’t going to color the vanities and cupboard, I wasn’t capable of depend on wooden filler and caulk to make up for my lack of imperfections within the constructing course of. So I needed to take additional care and further time to get issues proper. It was my most difficult construct up to now, but it surely has additionally been my most rewarding.
10. Dwelling Health club Striped Partitions
With my love of colour and stripes, our striped home gym walls clearly need to be included in my checklist. This mission was such a ache, as I needed to measure and tape off each single stripe with 1/4-inch tape, after which the tape didn’t come off cleanly, so I had to take action many repairs! It was a whole nightmare, however I’m so glad I persevered and didn’t name it quits. It’s so invigorating being on this room, surrounded by a lot colour. In all, I used 15 totally different colours to color the stripes in right here.
So these are my high 10 proper now. If I waited one other month and did a high 10 checklist, the checklist could look a bit totally different. However I’m so grateful for this journey, and for the abilities and classes I’ve discovered alongside the best way. And I completely love residing in a house the place I can go searching and see the fruit of the labor of my very own palms in each room and each floor. It’s so satisfying!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
