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picture frame molding in the 1/2 bath

While my mom was here and the mitre saw was out, we decided to install the chair rail and picture frame molding in the half bathroom. This is a small room with 9′ ceilings and I thought this trim work would be a nice way to break up those tall walls a bit. (You can find a tutorial on how to install picture frame molding HERE.) Here is a look at the same view before we started the foyer/half bath makeover… This room still isn’t finished, but it’s really coming along and the trim made a big difference in adding some architectural interest to the room. The walls are still feeling a little…meh. I think this room needs some pattern on the wall, so I’m thinking about hand painting a design or using one of the wallpapers I am planning to make for Spoonflower. We will also add some crown

March 25, 2019 35 Comments

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how to frame a baby dress

I’m still chipping away at the finishing details in the guest room. One of the details that had me a little stuck was what to hang to balance out the mirror hung by the left side of the bed, but I finally have it figured out. I’ll share my solution and also how to frame a baby dress… You can find the wallpaper I used in this room HERE. I tried holding up a few different things…mostly collections of smaller pieces. As I looked through pictures in my stash that still haven’t found a home on a wall, I found this large bird print. I bought it shortly after we moved in, but I realized that it really didn’t work with anything. (I really needed a pair and I could only find one.) It was one of those purchases I regretted, but I didn’t have the heart to take a

March 21, 2019 80 Comments

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picture frame molding tutorial

While my mom was here, the biggest job on our project to-do list was wallpapering the guest room. I was planning on installing the chair rail as a part of that, but I was going to stop there and work on the picture frame/box molding with Jeff. He’s the real woodworker in our family and he is much more detail-oriented than I am. Plus, there’s the math. But once we got the wallpaper done and the room was looking so good, we didn’t want to stop. I decided to just go for it. I’ve done other types of trim and I took a chance that I would be able to figure this out. So, my mom and I went and bought all of the trim we would need for the guest room and we even got a little ambitious and bought it for the bathroom, too! One tip – The

March 19, 2019 29 Comments

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“week” wall clock

When I was out shopping last week, I was poking through one of the antique mall booths and spotted a pretty clock on the wall. I’m not so much into clocks, but I think I’m attracted to them as small pieces of furniture. Does that make sense? I like the shape of the case or the design on the face or the patina of the wood. I don’t care if they work, although it’s a bonus if they do. I just like them for their aesthetic quality. So, I leaned in to admire this small, curvy clock and was surprised to see it was only $55.00. And, beyond that, it was in working order and included a key for winding! I thought about it for about 2 minutes and then gently lifted the clock of its nail and took it to the counter to claim. I had several ideas of

March 18, 2019 59 Comments

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antique store finds & Junk Bonanza 2019

In addition to the dresser and mirror my mom and I found for the guest room, I found a few other fun finds on our two shopping trips to local antique stores. I still need to do a lot more exploring to find “my honey holes”, but that will come with time. I lived in PA for several years before I found all of my favorite places. Junk Bonanza is coming up April 11-13 (more details are below) and I’m looking forward to doing a bit of shopping there while I attend to teach MMS Milk Paint demos and sell some antiques. It was a great event last year with top-notch dealers, so I’m expecting to find some antique pieces on the running wish-list for my house. Anyway, here are the things I found while hitting some local places… I bought this cute little wooden horse. It was just

March 14, 2019 24 Comments

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wallpaper paste comparison

I know you’re just dying to know which type of wallpaper paste won out in my head-to-head challenge. Was it Roman 880? Was it Dynamite 780? Oh, the suspense. Oh, the drama. This is the post you’ve been waiting for all your life. Okay, not really. Wallpaper paste isn’t exciting, but I will tell you that you will appreciate this post if ever you’re installing unpasted wallpaper! By the way, I was paid heaps of money by the brand I’m going to encourage you to use and I bought stock in their company. I’m just kidding. I bought both pastes with my own money and I have no affiliation with either brand. I compared them on my own, primarily because I ran out of the first gallon and had to run out and buy whatever I could find locally to finish the project, so I had to use two brands

March 13, 2019 39 Comments

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guest room dresser & mirror

Last week, my mom and I needed a break from hanging wallpaper and installing box molding, so we went to an antique mall (Countryside Antique Mall) and to a local consignment shop (Kismet) to see if we could find a few things on my “wish list” for the room. One thing that was at the top of the list was a dresser. The bed was flanked with antique washstands from my last house, but they looked a little dinky in the room. I wanted to replace one with a dresser and the other with a desk. I didn’t find the desk, but we found the dresser! It’s a pretty oak piece with a serpentine front that works well with the other pieces in the room (the oak bed frame and the antique German wardrobe.) I thought initially I would want to paint it, but now that I have it in

March 12, 2019 115 Comments

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wallpapering the guest room | pasted vs. unpasted

I have been looking at wallpaper patterns for a couple of rooms in our house for months, but I haven’t pulled the trigger on any of them for one main reason – almost all of the papers I liked came unpasted. To me, “unpasted” might as well have read “you cannot install this on your own and will have to hire a professional.” Unpasted seemed complicated and intimidating and, perhaps, easier to mess up. Well, now that I have installed both pasted and unpasted paper, I can tell you that my assumptions were wrong. Not only that but I now prefer unpasted. I used prepasted wallpaper for the upstairs bathroom in our PA house. It was beautiful mural from . The upside to prepasted is that you don’t have to go through the extra step of applying the paste. The downside is that you don’t have any control over how

March 10, 2019 26 Comments

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picture frame molding in the 1/2 bath

how to frame a baby dress

picture frame molding tutorial

“week” wall clock

antique store finds & Junk Bonanza 2019

wallpaper paste comparison

guest room dresser & mirror

wallpapering the guest room | pasted vs. unpasted

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