Monday, August 13, 2007

This weekend's home improvement project

The master bedroom "before" shot, with the previous owner's furniture and drapes:

Here it is after a coat of primer on the red wall, two coats of Restful on the whole room, two late-night trips to Target and Home Depot for curtain rods, new drawer pulls, and new doorknobs, and a miraculous flash of inspiration at Bed Bath and Beyond that led me to use shower curtains instead of "real" curtains in my bedroom.






Those cute picture frame curtain hooks are for a shower curtain, too - they're on clearance, so get 'em while they last, which at $5 for a pack of 12 probably won't be too long.

And in case anyone was wondering why Restful looks so familiar, here's an explanation:

(Family room at our house in Kentucky)

To finish the bedroom I still need to put a second coat of white on the built-in drawers and outlet covers and sew some fabric panels to cover up the open storage above the closet. And I still need to figure out how to attach a standard drawer pull to a door that's 1 1/2" thick, when the longest fine guage screw I can find is 1 1/4" long. Can you say, countersink?

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