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Like every project I’ve taken on, my aisle has been much longer than I expected. I thought I’d finish it last week, but even though there’s a lot of trim installation, wood filling, sanding, caulking, and priming like I did in my two decades of DIYing, I’m always wondering about how long all the things that are needed in every new project.
But in the end I went through the slow phase. All trims are laid, wooded, plastered, polished, primed, and painted. The last big thing I had to do was paint the light gray edges on the wall, and then I was ready to bring in the new console table and decorative touches.
By the way, if you miss the new DIY console table, you can click here to see it. I do this by repurposing the edge grain plywood herringbone coffee grounds I made in 2019.
However, I was excited to see the new console table in the “new” (much smaller) hallway. But before I can count the hallway already finished, I also need to do paint touchups on the doors, install the door hardware on the doors (door knobs on the bathroom doors and pull the door for on pocket doors).
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And finally, I had to do a little cabinet project. Our router / modem sits on the top right cabinet shelf in the hallway now, and the outlet is on the bottom left cabinet. For more than a year now, it’s been a very nice and stylish orange extension cord, which winds from the tall cabinet, across the front of the drawers, and into the bottom cabinet where it adds up.
All I had to do was drill a hole (maybe two) in the inside of the cabinet to get the rope through the inside from the top to the bottom of the inside of the cabinet. Apparently that’s a very complicated project because I’ve been putting it out since the fall of 2019. 😀 But it’s time to get it done. It could still be done to me in all five minutes.
In other news, I shared a few days ago how We made our breakfast in a chair this time. After changing that, the chandelier in the breakfast room seemed out of place, so I decided to buy new lighting for the interior. I decided this sputnik light.
I love light fixtures that make a statement, and this one fits the bill. But when I put it together (yes, you have to screw each of the metal spikes together), I decided that this light would be more suitable for the living room. Make sure this statement is more than the current one that is there, as it were.
So I figured I’d make a little shift and put that light in the breakfast room, and put the new light in the living room. After all, if one of the quarters needs to have a light statement, it should be the room you see when you walk in the front door.
Now if only I could put the thing together. I only have half of it so far.
And finally, I received the wall mural for the master bathroom! This is what I ordered…
I haven’t translated the whole thing yet (I’m afraid I’ll ruin it), but from what I can see, it’s amazing.
I ordered deluxe paper, and it’s a vinyl paper that should hold up well in the bathroom. And just look at all of these beautiful colors!
All panels come in a long, continuous roll with lines indicating where to cut.
PhotoWall is located in Sweden, so I expect it to run a week (at least) to get here because they do the size, harvest and print of each mural according to your specifications. But it got here in a few days. I think it took a total of five days from when I ordered it. That’s so amazing! And now that I have the actual mural, I can do the rest of my choices for tile, paint colors, and more.
So things move right away! I finally got to a point where I actually felt like my old DIY lover myself. All last year, I felt lacking in motivation. And then it’s really hard to get back to paying attention to things this year. DIY is like a muscle (at least for me), and if I don’t do it regularly, it’s weak. So this year felt really challenging for me. But in the last few weeks, I’ve started to enjoy working at my house again.
And I am so happy that soon I will be able to show all the finished hallway, the finished music room, and the finished living room !! I avoided showing you the music room and living room because the unfinished hallway is shown in the photos of those two rooms. And after a long time to finish the music room and living room, there was no way I wanted an unfinished hallway with photos of the other two rooms prepared. That’s why I can almost show all the newly finished areas in our house!
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