The Dream Team!

***i don't know why these pictures are so bad??
Why did I not take before pictures??? Well probably because it was just supposed to be a simple paint job. Knowing my dad I should have known better. My dad needed an office overhaul and he let me design it and Drew create it. Our first job as the dream team.




This picture is a during shot. We had painted the walls from a nasty creme to a silver green. And the trim from red to white. So already it was better then before. And then we really started thinking... We needed more lights a different wall color and a different theme to the room all around. So drew started removing the ceiling panels and we were sold on the industrial look.


I love restoration hardware lighting. Just not prices.


These lights are perfect but the size we needed runs $499 a piece and we needed 6!


This is my ikea look-a-like that's $29. Awesome.


These lights are also $499. And we needed 4. That would have run us $5000, for all of the lighting.


Ikea version $20. Our total for lights was a little over $400. And that included 3 art lights, and bulbs.


We finally convinced my dad the nasty brown ultra plush/shag carpet had to go. He brought in some wood samples and I ok'ed the mahogany brown with a silver hue. It's perfect.


Drew installed the flooring. It was neat to watch how you can glue hardwood right onto concrete. Below is our exposed ceiling with the industrial lantern lights on.


And this is with the circle lights on. The lights look so incredible. I was nervous about choosing two different light fixtures, but I'm glad I went with my instinct. They look so amazing and add great detail to the room.


Finally below is our close to final picture. (We still have paint touch ups, etc.) Drew and I stayed up until 4 am installing moulding, creating the magnet board, building the frame and putting the room back together.


It turned out perfect. The trim brought such an awesome dimension to the room. And brought out the detail of the ceiling. And added much needed light to the room.


The magnetic board is my favorite. I dreamed it up
In my mind and Drew created it. The frame is a 5 inch poplar crown moulding. I am still deciding on a stain color. I want it light like the actual color of the poplar. I may end up just clear coating it. Such a fun/functional accent piece.


The whole board is four feet high by eight+ feet wide. This project was our first project start to finish that we did for someone else where all of the decisions were completely up to us. It was scary and incredible all rolled up. Love spending all those hours with my Drew.

How Pinteresting!

I've got an obsession! It started with adding subscriptions to my google reader. I was excited to wake up and read it like the morning paper. People do and teach amazing things. And the more engulfed I became the more awesome starred blogs I had saved. The only problem was that it was a huge process to go back to the picture you liked. Or the article you saved. And then I was turned onto this little beauty!

Pinterest.com has become... What would you call it... For some reason I'm only pulling up the Harry Potter term pensieve... Where Dumbledore stores all of his memories... Nerd alert! Ha! I guess what you non wizarding folks would call a journal. But it would take a ton of ink to print out all the wonders I've found on the Internet.

What pinterest does, is when you find a picture you want to save you click on your "pin it" butting saved to your address bar and it let's you save you picture to your page, or more specifically your board. And then when you want to go back to the original site you found the picture on you just click on the photo and it pulls up the site. Now no more wondering where you found something. Or typing random descriptive words into google to try and find something.

I have finally loaded it with all of my starred google reader entries and have added some wish-list accessories and ideas to be used on further dates. So if you want to dip your toes in my brain head on over to pinterest.com/lindsayredd. And if you want to start your own pinterest page let me know. Right now they are by invites or a wait list. Be sure to check out just pintrest.com people have found some pretty awesome things. Happy Pinning!

Lights!

Lights have made all of the difference in out little kitchen. Especially since we are in our basement apartment. In our true fashion we like to accomplish 3 tasks and then redo at least one of them. We had "finished" the lights and rehung the Sheetrock, but it was just not enough light.

And I really really really wanted art lights to accent our tile. So my dear husband with "little" hesitation ripped out some Sheetrock to put in one more recessed light, and three art lights. And it has made all the difference.

This is a progress shot, but you can see two of the art lights on the left tile wall. They look so good! We didn't put art lights in because of price. At Home Depot they really aren't too expensive but they are twelve to nineteen dollars a light. I just didn't want to spend almost $60 on art lights. And then I stumbled upon these beauties!

From ikea! They are the blixt lights, and they are 3 for $19.99. And they are awesome. They are about the same installation as remodel can recessed lights, where once they are wired they just pop into the ceiling.

We also found a great light for our laundry nook. Super flat and puts odd good light once it warms up.

We got this from ikea as well. $9! Steal! Drew hooked up all the electrical. I am so impressed. He can do it all! We bought some lights for under the cabinets that we haven't installed yet. Our cabinets are being rebuilt. Yes Drew made them once and they were just what I wanted. But then I realized if they were just a touch bigger we could reuse some old cupboard doors. So Drew rebuilt them. What a champ!

Happy New Year!

I'm not sure when exactly it was that Drew and I became so... Well boring. New Years Eve we celebrated with painting our cabinets.

Now all they need is a finish coat to keep them nice and white. We also sanded and sealed our countertop. I'm crazy about them! The tile on the ground, by the stove, was the tile we were looking at. I found some on ksl for $0.99 a sq/ft so we'll probably go with that. Sorry our pictures are always taken at night and kind of have a weird yellow tinge to them. I'll work on law of attracting a nice camera into our lives. How else are we going to showcase our work and lives?

...Changes...

So I finished school at the U. And as a graduation present to myself, decided to apply to go to more school! Hooray!

I spent the last month pulling together my application to LDS Business College, Interior Design program. I had to put together a color board to be accepted into the program. I think it turned out nice. I wanted to make it stand out and not just be on black foam board, so I wrapped the board in canvas so it looked like a linen board.

To maximize space on the 9"X12" board I stacked the upholstery fabrics and made them into a little booklet. I glued the furniture onto the fabric they would be upholstered in.

This is a picture of a collage wall and the accent pieces used to decorate the room. I had my sister write all of the labels, her handwriting is very architectural in style. Does that make sense? It does in my head!

I had to make my own white furniture. I couldn't find a picture I liked. I wanted this trellis wallpaper inside to add some special detail. Love it!

These are the accent colors to be used throughout the room.

My darling husband ripped down a sample of wood so I could make my wood floor into a herringbone pattern. I was scared for Drew's finger tips. He made it out with all his digits. Phew.

I ended up cutting my own dental moulding. Snipped every detail... Worth it... I think so! Well after all this work I got my acceptance letter! Wahoo! Onto the next big adventure!

I can't wait to bump into Hannah on campus. She pretty much runs the school. Trust me! She's even on the website!

That's Some Dog!

Poor pooches have been neglected. Here is Caesar on his knees begging for some attention.

Look how long he is! What a guy!

My Drew...

Stayed up until 3 AM this morning painting the gloss accent on the trim.

He's half man... Half amazing. It looks so great. With the morning light I think we capture the truest color of the walls. We haven't finished the ceiling because we decided we need to add one more can light to avoid a dark spot in the corner of the room. And accent art lights to highlight the glass tile. It's now a functional kitchen! Hooray!!