Here are some photos from our Lake House in Missouri. We are so looking forward to going again this July. It is a wonderful little house with lots of projects for me and hubby. I load up the van with items from the great stores around here and the attic and lots of ideas to make the house a home.
Here are Maia and Lexie having fun in their front porch craft room. I wish you could see the "before" of this little porch. My Dad helped me paint the walls and floor. From the porch is the front door that opens into a colorful dining room.
This is the dining room, already painted such a great deep coral red. The table and chairs were left from the owners but hubby and I bought the baker's rack to create a bar. We hung the hanging light that has hung in every home we've lived in since the boys were little. What you don't see in this picture is the great big window that looks out into the craft porch. We do everything at the table: computers, sewing, and lots of eating.
Off the dining/kitchen is the master, guest and bathroom.
This is the master bedroom decorated in light green and blue with the bedding and curtains from Walmart. (the only department store in miles and miles.) This room was the only one not painted so I went the the same light green as the living room.
Here is the other wall display. Everything is from Michaels or our attic. This photo was taken with the previous owner's bedding. There are also photos of the bathroom and the guest room that I'll post later.
The dining room is open to the kitchen.
This is the only photo of the kitchen that I have right now. Hubby was organizing for me (he's into that stuff !!). The "island" is a desk from Walmart that I painted to match the dining room table and chairs. We plan to paint the cabinets black this summer and take the doors off the top cabinets. I'll add photos of our inspiration kitchen soon.
From the kitchen is the living room. The couches and chair were already there. I made the throw pillows and bought some from the Dollar Store. It is fun trying to find things in the little stores in the neighboring towns. I love the paint color for the walls. We were so lucky that the previous owner did such a good job choosing paint colors. There is a patio sliding door that we don't use. I'm hoping to change it to french doors one day.
This is my next project: the back porch and patio. We hope to change the sliding doors to new french doors (maybe still sliding though.) I want to plant roses and make more flower gardens. Since this picture was taken I put more chairs on the porch.
Here is the reason I fell in love with this little house! The backyard!! Look at the trees and all the shade. I had new rock put in for the driveway and walkways. Just give me a few years to get it looking just right. (that is hubby's Dad's cabin across the road.)
come back soon for Lake House updates.
So, first I took down the boards and decided to paint to match the rest of the room. The backing was plain old paneling so I used some kiltz before trying to cover the wood. It took several coats but it finally came out very nice.
In between coats I touched up the white cabinets.
What a nice vacation kitchen! All ready for next time.
The next day we really worked hard to get all the grout up that was damaged. We had to replace two tiles that came up with the grout chopping, so thankfully, we had extras around. (I used those two damaged tiles for the tabletop project.)
Here I am (with sore knees) adding grout to the last section of tiles. I know I took a photo of the girls working on the grout but it must be on one of the phones and not the camera's so I'll add that later. Anyway, the floor came out so great! I'm really proud of our work. Next, the backsplash!
Lexie came up with the "stream of tiles" design and I think it is perfect!
Tiling the top of a great little wooden table to use as a place to serve. New floor and "new" table.
I've been creating Jewelry for about 5 years. Each piece is an original design that is crafted by hand, my hand to be specific. I work with metals such as Fine Silver, Sterling, Copper, Vermeil and 14kt Gold Fill. The variety of stones I use range from Semi Precious Gems such as Aquamarine, Peridot and Amethyst to custom made Cubic Zirconia, Swarovski Crystal and Pearls. Most pieces end up being one of a kind just because I make something and move on from there though I do have a few "in demand" designs that I've made several times but always with slight variations. Check out my work and let me know what you think.
Lighten up your colors in the bedroom. Think calm. Use a corner of your bedroom for morning snacks or checking the weather on your laptop.
Add fresh flowers to your rooms. And real live plants.
Freshen up your back entry. Take away the coats, sweaters, and boots and add a few summer straw hats.
First I bought two packages of the largest size drop cloths. They come in long lengths with about a good width. I ended up needing one more so this photo is of the smaller size. The 8 oz. weight is perfect and very easy to work with.
Here is one of the sad faded cushions before being covered. The cushion behind it was measured, cut and sewn like a pillow case on three sides.
This photo shows how to make the box corner on the two top already sewn corners. Just pull up the corners with the seams together and sew a little triangle across.
Turn the cover right side out. Slip the cushion inside like a pillow, then fold and tuck the corners of the unsewn bottom to make the box corners and pin. Then just sew a slip stitch across the bottom length of the pillow.
Before
After!
View to the rest of the patio (still in progress).
This is the only photo of the kitchen that I have right now. Hubby was organizing for me (he's into that stuff !!). The "island" is a desk from Walmart that I painted to match the dining room table and chairs. We plan to paint the cabinets black this summer and take the doors off the top cabinets. I'll add photos of our inspiration kitchen soon.
From the kitchen is the living room. The couches and chair were already there. I made the throw pillows and bought some from the Dollar Store. It is fun trying to find things in the little stores in the neighboring towns. I love the paint color for the walls. We were so lucky that the previous owner did such a good job choosing paint colors. There is a patio sliding door that we don't use. I'm hoping to change it to french doors one day.
This is my next project: the back porch and patio. We hope to change the sliding doors to new french doors (maybe still sliding though.) I want to plant roses and make more flower gardens. Since this picture was taken I put more chairs on the porch.
