DIY Progress Report: Painting away the Tuscan



Hey y'all! First in addition to foremost, give thank you you thus much for beingness thus sort nigh the new house tour inward my final post. I know it's a total mess in addition to actually dated, but it was such a relief to know that you guys 'got it', (and if you didn't read the solid tour, you're prob non going to empathise why I dearest this solid based off this novel post, thus exactly hold upward sort in addition to rewind.). So, anyway, these are trying times in addition to you guys are the best.

 And at ane time it's fourth dimension for a progress report!








In the yesteryear distich weeks since we've shut in addition to moved in, we've been trying to interview in addition to organize a bunch of different contractors, in addition to thus schedule everyone inward the right order. Essentially, the meliorate nosotros practise this, the less fourth dimension nosotros accept to alive without a kitchen, in addition to flooring, in addition to exactly full general inner peace, thus you know...I've been making this stride a priority.

We are kicking things off side yesteryear side calendar week alongside the drywall piece of occupation (like removing popcorn ceilings, removing beams, in addition to edifice the 2 doors that this solid is exactly randomly missing). And thus at the terminate of the calendar month the kitchen gets demoed, thus flooring gets finished mid-september, thus the kitchen gets rebuilt. It's oh thus exciting, in addition to I'm 100% certain that I'm going to lose my hear at to the lowest degree twice inward the process. 
I'll update you throughout all of it, every bit it happens.

 But, piece we've essentially been organizing the renovation over the yesteryear 2 weeks, I've also been doing a lot of piece of occupation on my ain each nighttime after Ava goes to bed. While nosotros are hiring out a lot of the large projects on this house, at that topographic point are withal tons of things that Jesse in addition to I are going to hold upward tackling on our own, because it frees upward coin for other projects that I practise non desire to practise (like pulling upward domestic dog pee carpeting inward the basement)...you understand.

 So, anyway, let's larn started. H5N1 earlier moving ikon of the living room/dining room:



 And after! 

 First disclaimer: I accept to motility all this crap dorsum out inward a affair of weeks thus that they tin practise the floors, thus this is but a temporary setup of the bare minimum of items, basically thus I tin comfortably chase my babe roughly in addition to scout Stranger Things.

 Second disclaimer: There's a basketball game inward my living room. I'm cool alongside it.

Anyway, I painted the walls Benjamin Moore Simply White in addition to the ceiling crown molding Ultra White. The wainscotting in addition to flooring cut are beingness replaced, thus I exactly left them alone. I accept yet to pigment the ceiling, thus it looks a lilliputian darker, because it is. I volition hopefully pigment that this week...it's a existent beast, thus I've been procrastinating.


The walls all had that sweetness Tuscan texture to them, which I'm pretty certain was exactly sponged on, thus I exactly sanded ane lilliputian expanse at a time, earlier I painted, in addition to quietly cried to myself nigh how awful life was. Kidding, but similar non inward that moment.


I volition eventually rework the slice of furniture inward hither (not certain what, but let's worry nigh that later), in addition to volition wall mountain the tv, add together some fine art in addition to some window coverings, in addition to manifestly pigment the ceiling in addition to redo the floors. So much orange. 
Here's some other earlier shot. So, that weird coat cupboard yesteryear the front end door? That's getting demoed inward the side yesteryear side distich of weeks. It exactly drives me crazy in addition to I desire it gone. I don't attention nigh storage, it exactly needs to leave of absence of here.

I also painted the step rails, to a greater extent than on that inward a minute.


So, yeah, imagine the awkward coat cupboard gone in addition to beefier wainscotting inward the dining room (The electrical current materials is exactly painted on the wall in addition to doesn't practise it for me.).


I painted the front end door Sherwin Williams Urbane Bronze. I withal accept to switch out the hardware, but it's a start. The door colouring is a lilliputian fleck softer inward person...my crappy photographic television set camera makes everything await harsher, except my face...that 2009 sony cybershot flash is where it's at.


The yellowish walls in addition to bronze chandelier inward the dining room were driving me crazy.


So, I painted all of the walls white in addition to Jesse took the chandelier down.


He hung the ane nosotros had inward the onetime house. I don't recall it industrial plant every bit good inward this solid though, thus I'm on the hunt for something that I similar meliorate inward there. But, for now, I'm leaving it hung because it's the only lite nosotros accept inward this entire expanse (fail), in addition to it's meliorate than the Tuscan candelabra.


So, these step rails. Most tardily project. Remember how I tried to spray the ones inward the final solid in addition to it was the project that nearly killed me? 


Well, circular two. It took me 3 nights to complete this. Just thus so tardily trying non to larn whatever pigment on the Fe balusters. I recall I stomped my pes at ane request inward frustration. Like yesteryear myself, having some wine, listening to a podcast, in addition to stomping my foot. That should amount it upward for you.


But, skillful news, it looks thus much meliorate now. Everything looks kinda off because there's orangish floors, in addition to an orangish kitchen, in addition to carpeted stairs, but if you squint actually difficult in addition to imagine skillful things happening everywhere, you tin kinda meet what I'm going for.
And similar maybe exactly pretend at that topographic point aren't babe gates all over my house. You guys, it's a phase, in addition to it must hold upward embraced. 


As for the flooring situation, I had a lot of comments on Instagram nigh this subject. We position a lot of thought into what nosotros wanted to do. We considered exactly refinishing the master copy flooring, but it currently only goes through the living in addition to dining room, thus nosotros would exactly hold upward running these 2 inch planks throughout the residual of the solid to match, in addition to thus getting everything finished on site. And frankly, I don't dearest the 2 inch planks, in addition to also I've lived through an on-site hardwood complete in addition to it was a existent pain. But, nosotros wanted to hold upward thorough, in addition to I figured if it was going to salve us tons of money, possibly I would regard it. So, nosotros got a quote for refinishing the existing hardwoods addition running them throughout, in addition to it was non actually all that much cheaper than exactly gutting what was at that topographic point in addition to installing prefinished broad plank flooring throughout. I mean, budget-wise, it in all probability agency I'm going to accept to DIY ane of our bathrooms at some point, but I'll in all probability terminate upward DIYing all 3 if we're beingness honest, thus I exactly figured, I should become alongside my gut in addition to larn what nosotros want.

 So, that beingness said, Ava has been helping me stare at flooring samples all week.


My electrical current fave is the ane on the far right, but I honestly recall whatever of them would hold upward beautiful.


In other news, Ava went to her commencement thrift shop this week. She constitute a hat. 


And I constitute rose golden spray pigment at JoAnn's cloth store. Some of you asked me on IG where it was from, thus at ane time ya know. I accept no thought what I'm going to operate it on, but I couldn't exceed it up, thus I'll figure out the details later.


So, that's all for today, y'all. Thanks for beingness hither in addition to thank you for beingness excited nigh the crap I painted inward my living room. 
I hateful it.
P.S. You tin banking concern check out my cut ikon tutorial here in addition to my wall ikon tutorial here. They're piece of cake in addition to they help. Promise.






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