Productive Day

Last Sunday Clay told me to have a productive day while he was working around the house fixing various projects. I decided I would just paint the trim in the downstairs bathroom. We decided that the wallpaper wasn't that bad and we could wait to re-do the whole bathroom. Here are the before pictures:

Here is the picture starting to paint the trim:

After I started I told Clay "Umm we are re-doing the whole bathroom!" 

I really wanted to paint the room a grey color. There are so many greys, I didn't want it to be too dark or too light. Clay went to Home Depot on his way home and picked up some samples. We decided on garnet grey. I had this feeling he should go check the Home Depot by our house. When he returned he had this can of paint: 

 

I don't know if you can tell but the color is almost exact! And the price... $7.00 for Behr paint and primer!! 

Here are some more pictures: 

To save money we painted the mirror and the light fixtures. We also decided to paint the bottom of the cabinet white. 

Once we painted the cabinet white we decided we didn't like it as much because of the color of the counter top. Clay decided to use the glaze again. 

Here are some of the final pictures: 

Total cost of the project: 

Behr Grey paint: $7.00

White trim paint and glaze: already had left over from other projects $0.00

Flat Black spray paint: $1.12

New hardware for cabinet: $10.00

New towel hanger: $5.00

New toilet paper hanger $3.00 (brand new from goodwill)

Total: $26.12

I would say it was a productive few days and we were able to complete the bathroom cost effectively. I am so blessed to have Clay as my husband- he can fix almost anything around here and he motivates me to help too. We are going to take a break from working on the house for the next few weeks. We are going to help Clay's mom paint a room in her house and then we leave for Europe at the end of the month. I can't wait to see this kid! I miss my buddy so much!! 

Everyone have a blessed and productive day! :)

All Finished

 We are back! The past month we had three great friends get married! We had a blast attending each of the wonderful weddings! Due to being so busy we put all house work on hold for awhile. We finally finished the guest bedroom last night. We really should call it the Goodwill room because that's where all the furniture came from. We have spent $50 on the dresser, $30 on the bed frame, $12 for the side table, $2.00 for the window over the bed, and $40 paint and hardware = $124.00 a new room!!

  The first project is one I have been wanting to do for while. My mom gave me this gift at my first wedding shower. The window is from my great-grandparents home before it was torn down. This is extremely special to me because I was really close to Great Grandmother. I added the picture of me and my dad on my wedding day across from mom and her dad on her wedding day. The bottom is my family's verse Jeremiah 29:11.

At Goodwill I found this beauty for $2.49 and I really wanted to do something neat with it.

I couldn't decide on a verse so I used a line from the song sang at our wedding. Love Never Fails by Brandon Heath.

Here is the final. I don't love it.. but it works in the room. When we hung it up it was hard to read the words so Clay suggested using the frosted spray paint on the back. I think it helped. 

Here is the other project we have been working on.

 

We wanted it to match the other furniture, so we painted it cream first. 

Then Clay added the glaze.

Right now our bed is a full and the headboard is a queen so Clay added a piece of wood on the bottom to accommodate the smaller bed.

Here is the finished room:

A big difference from:

A garden update:

Three cherry tomatoes, 1 green bell pepper, and  lots of jalapenos is all we have grown so far. Something keeps eating my big tomatoes and I am not happy about that.. 

Hope everyone is having a great summer!!