Month: October 2023

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My paint swatch cabinets are finished! And why do I call these my paint swatch cabinets? It’s because I painted swatches of 72 different paint colors on the doors. And they are glorious. 😀 Oh, yeah. And I painted the cabinet black! I’ll bet y’all weren’t expecting that, were you? 😀 I know, I know.

I had high hopes that I’d be finished with this cabinet by today, but I didn’t make it. I had completely forgotten that the walls and the ceiling in that area of the room hadn’t even been painted yet, so having to take care of that before working on the cabinet set me back a

I have to laugh every now and then when people make comments like, “Kristi, why are you going to all this work to make your studio pretty when it’s just going to be covered in sawdust?” 😀 I think there might be some confusion with a few people. So let me clarify. My studio will

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This is a question I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately. Is the concept of over-improving a house even a consideration if you never plan to sell? Now obviously, if you buy a house and plan to live there for just a few years and then sell it and move on, over-improving the house

If I were to poll my readers and ask you what you think is the most meaningful piece of artwork in our house, I would imagine that most of you would choose the “watercolor” that hangs in our hallway. That is one of my favorite photos from our wedding day that my mom turned into

The cabinet doors for my 72-color paint swatch cabinet in the studio are finished. I thought this was going to be such a long, drawn out project, but this turned out being much faster and easier than my pink gold-leafed cabinets on the mural wall of the studio, and that’s even with me having to

I’m currently working on the paint swatch cabinet just inside the studio from the breakfast room door. If you missed my previous post about this, I’m using this cabinet makeover from Geneva Vanderzeil as my inspiration. So after spending the weekend sanding, priming, and paint the door fronts white, I was finally ready to move on

I was beginning to think this day would never happen. After I met with the contractor that we’re going to use for our house addition at the end of July, he gave me the name of the architect that they usually use for their projects. The architect contacted me shortly after to set up a

Obviously, when I say it only took us five years to complete this carport, I’m saying that with tongue firmly planted in cheek. 😀 Had I not been in a Wonder Woman mindset five years ago, I would have had them complete the whole thing, from start to finish, in 2018 when the carport was

Well, I thought I had my plan for the 72-color cabinets written in stone, but then y’all came along and threw a wrench in my plans. 😀 I had commenters on yesterday’s post present other options, and now I can’t decide which one I like the most! Thankfully, this indecision hasn’t delayed me at all

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I spent the weekend working on the cabinets just inside the studio door from the breakfast room. I decided to start with those because I think that will be a faster and easier project than the cabinets in the office section of the studio. But while I was working on the boring parts (the sanding,

Things have been going smoothly on the carport completion…until this morning. And the problem that we ran into this morning was totally my mistake. This carport was started back in 2018, and as I’ve already mentioned in a previous recent post, I had the crazy idea at the time that I wanted them to do

I’ve felt really good these last two days, with yesterday being almost pain-free the whole day. After about ten days in bed (or on the floor) experiencing the most pain I’ve ever had in my life with sciatica, I was so elated to get up yesterday with no pain, go to lunch with my family

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Y’all, I actually did some work yesterday! I didn’t do much. I don’t want to push myself too hard and end up having to spend more days in bed. (Severe sciatica brought me down like a darted elephant, and I had to spend about ten days in bed. More about that here.) But yesterday evening,