Beadboard Goes Up - Dining Room Part 4

I know I'm jumping around with my posts on the Dining Room, but hopefully when it's all done, I will have covered everything. :-)

My husband found 10 sheets of beadboard on Craigslist for $40!  If you've shopped for beadboard, you know that it runs around $20 a sheet...so for $40 for 10 sheets - that was a great deal!  It was grey in color, but that didn't matter, I had plans to paint it anyway.

We started with the North wall.  After putting one board up, we realized we would have to cover the seams because they did not fall on studs and we would have to use liquid nails and LOTS of regular nails!  So we took the first board off and made the seams equal in distance.

Here is the other half of the North wall.  Our ceiling is 12 feet tall in this room, but it angles at about 8 feet.  We went up about 7 feet on the walls with the beadboard. 

Here is the West wall...the other side of this wall is the Kitchen.  If we would have thought about it, we would have cut two boards equal in width, so the seam would have fallen in the middle...it really is not a big deal to us (now)...so it is how it is . :-) 

Here is the North and East wall.  

Here is the East and South wall.  That is the PITA shutter.  It looks fine, but is not installed totally correct.  You can still see screws from the outside.  We picked our battle and chose to take the 1/2 off refund and live with it...we will probably do something so that you can not see those screws! 

So this is how the Dining Room sat for a year!  Putting up the beadboard was a task in itself.  When we had this house built, we took lots of pictures of each stage - thank goodness!!  We referenced back to the pictures to find the studs in the walls.  We also used a stud-finder.  The studs are not where they 'normally' would be so the beadboard seams would no stay put...they kept 'popping' off the walls.  We really did not want to use liquid nails because whenever we wanted to take the beadboard down, we didn't want the sheetrock to be ruined.  In the end, we used liquid nails and the beadboard is up and it's not coming down anytime soon!

It is now trimmed out - pics to come! and painted!!

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It's the Perfect Storm - Painting the Dining Room - Part 3

If you read previous posts, you know we started the Dining Room remodel a year ago!  Here are some before pictures....

The color on the walls is construction color 'peanut shell'...I got a small sample of the paint color I wanted and painted it on the wall to see if we would like it.

Before pics... 

more before... 

and more before... 

Here's my husband starting to paint.  Paint color is from Lowes.  Valspar - Perfect Storm. 

I wanted a 'peacock blue'..this is as close as I could find.  Not navy, not teal...kind of in between. 

love, love, love it! 

Since our ceiling is so high in here (12 feet), the darker color works fine. 

This pic makes the blue look brighter than it is...the other pics look more 'true to color'. 

A coat of paint = Pricele$$

1st Sign of Spring

Even though it is chilly and rainy today, Spring is peeking through....

Seeing our Magnolia bush bloom, showing us Spring is almost here = Pricele$$



Awwww - Puppy Love

Our friends got a new puppy - Gordan.  Here's the scrapbook page I made for them:

Adding a fur baby to your family = Pricele$$



Clearance Rack to Boutique Rack

So I found this simple red jacket on the Target Clearance rack.  It was size newborn and my grand baby was born last month, so for $2...oh yeah, it was mine!

BUT!  It is quite boring...very practical, but boring...

So I decided to 'jazz' it up a little bit!

I love black, white and red together so I used fabric that I already had on hand from previous projects HERE and HERE.

I used a bowl to trace the size circle I wanted.

I'm making a 'yo-yo' to use as 'flowers'.  Put a running stitch around the edge of the fabric.  The longer the stitches, the tighter the closer...whichever look you are going for will be fine.  I wanted my 'flowers' to be a closed as possible.

Start pulling the thread and the fabric will start to gather in on itself.

Keep pulling until...

You get a 'yo-yo' or a 'flower' in my case.

Make a knot and cut thread.

I added red buttons to tie in the red jacket and to create the 'middle' part of the flower.

I did a cluster of 3, in different sizes...

Here they are on the jacket...

Doesn't that help that boring jacket go from clearance rack to....

BOUTIQUE Rack!

Here's our future model, sporting her chic jacket!!  Too Cute!

Supplies for 'flowers' - free - I had everything on hand

Making something boring into chic and especially for my grand baby = Pricele$$

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