More Mantle...

I seriously can't get over this mantle... I brought over some decorations so we could get a little more of a lived in feel...

We just moved into a house with a fireplace... Nothing like this (yet) but I have really loved decorating it... I got these gold frames that my friend picked up from a yard sale for me... She knows me too well...

I got this chalk art from Recipe For Crazy's etsy shop last year, and put it in the yard sale frame with a red velvet matte... I out it in there just to see the size thinking I could switch or paint the mat, but I ended up kind of liking it!

Mason jar globes are a anthropologie knock off that I made last year...

And the redd books I snagged from savers last year for $0.50. So really it all boiled down to what I could find on hand!

I also grabbed these staggered size candles from ikea... They were basically free... So cheap... Drew keeps asking when we are going to light them... I keep staring back at him blankly.... Boys (shake my head)...

The real beauty is this mantle... I die...

Well and my $4 savers mirror... Can't beat that...

 

Happy decorating!

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Honeycut Mantle...

Oh do I have a treat for you! Drew has been working his little magic fingers on a house that needed a lot of love. Above is the awesome before... Asian landscape wallpaper, pink stone mantle. Can only go up from here...

And Drew smashed it out of the park. The owners were considering a simple fix for now over the pink. When we work with clients we give suggestions, not to increase our profit (although it doesn't hurt) we are truly more concerned with us leaving you with a product you will absolutely love... So Drew asked them while you are doing these updates leaving the mantle the way it is will leave the rest of the updates still feeling old. They agreed.

I will show you the rest of the updates Drew did in a bit... For now the mantle needs a spot light...

I could stare at this beauty all day. Sometimes it is easier to get a better idea of all the work that goes into something like this before it gets painted...

A lot of people will skim coat the Sheetrock smooth... After our last paneled walls where our sheet rockers left a lot of tiny pinholes that are often hard to avoid we vowed to never take that route. Drew installed 1/2" MDF and then rabbeted pencil mould inset panels.

Then he used the same trim but cut the rabbet off so its inset in the mantle instead of overlay on the paneling.... Does it feel like I'm speaking Chinese?

A little crown moulding on top of the leg of the mantle...

Each and every piece custom cut, glued and nailed. Drew hates this picture because he said he made a bad cut in the bottom left corner.... So close to perfection...

After prep and sprayed with oil based paint in Benjamin Moore White Dove... And the panel is sprayed in oil base tinted Benjamin Moore Cliffside Gray. The client wanted a gray that was more on the blue side... And this gray was it!

I found this 1" hex tile through classifieds marked down more than 60%. It turned out amazing! Drew had the brilliant idea to do chair rail tile on the inside mouth of the fireplace, sometimes working with that smaller tile it gets really tricky to get a crispl line. This really finished it off nice. If you notice the profile of the chair rail tile mimics the pencil mould inset perfectly.

And here it is... I will say almost finished. I get too excited, drew still needs to grout caulk and he might repair inside the fireplace where someone chipped away the concrete.... I couldn't wait!

 

Woah! Welcome Back...

 

I worked with some investors doing the design for some investment properties. It really is so fun just being able to say this is what I want... And it happens. Here are some pics of the property. The photos are not of the highest quality.

Before

My sketchup...

The after, the investors wanted a way to spruce up this fireplace. I chose to keep the quartz mantle to save cost and designed a simple panel top. Then finished it off with glass tile.

This shot needs one more coat of grout and a clean... But it's pretty tile!

Front room staged and ready to sell...

Love the look of these flushmount lights but they don't throw off much light. Frowny face...

We opened up the walls and created an island. I used honed black granite on the island and Carrera on the perimeter. I love how the black anchors the island.

 

Fireplace place before.... Or kind of during... This one the investors wanted to fight me on.... I wanted it painted white, and they wanted to Sheetrock and tile it.... No no no. Paint all the brick!

I love it... I think it adds such great texture and charm. Everything else is new, and this brings a dimension of age to the house!

I was right....

Love!

The ceiling had a major sag in it... When they exposed the center, it was only a few 2x4s laying flat... Aka no strength... So we vaulted it! Oh and they wanted to rip out the window seat! What? No way! love this room...

Bathrooms are some of my favorite to design... I went with white on white in this bathroom....

Love me some penny tile!

The floor!

The master! This was my favorite bath... I wanted to move in...

Here is my sketchup...

I brought in a faux 8x12 marble tile for the floor and used a 50/50 brick pattern... The wall field tile was a simple white 3x6 and the accent is a Carrera 3x6 tile stripe with a Carrera pinwheel center...

This light was AWESOME! It's actually from the track light section...

 

This was before the euro shower door was installed!

Detail shot of the tile accent...

 

Painting a Barn...

This place is straight out of a fairy tale... I was hired to pick the interior paint color and Drew was hired to paint... It was no small feat...

How awesome is the exterior of this home... The former owners color scheme gave a dark and moody feel to the home. The new home owner wanted light and crisp... We tried out a whole bunch of whites and cremes. We finally landed on Pointing from Farrow and Ball... It was incredible!

Before they used Georgian Green by Benjamin Moore on some walls and then the same color at 25% for the ceiling color. Then randomly throughout they used yellow accent walls.

We went with Pointing throughout the house, which I think is ideal for an open floor plan... And Decorators White from Benjamin Moore on the ceiling... It is breathtaking!

Drew was standing on scaffolding up 40 feet. It made me sick to my stomach to watch. He's a pro!

A little side by side for comparison.

Its just so bright and fresh... It shows off the mortis and tenon timber framing which is the real master piece of the home!

Not a barn without antlers...

A little slice of heaven on earth...

 

...continue on this little journey>>>>