Work in progress...116

A new project, finally...I know I'm a slacker

2011-07-11T10:58:00.000-07:00

So months ago - seriously March or something like that, my mom and our friend Katherine did a favor for me by going to salvation army very early in the AM to scope out a large dresser for my room to act as a dresser/bedside table. They found a piece for a great price and I was dispatched to go pick it up. Then it sat in my living room as a makeshift sofa table for a while. Well about a month and a half ago I had a big weekend of sanding then priming, painting, painting and painting it. The multi coats of paint took it from a fairly dark stain to a crisp white. I was concerned about the finish being really bumpy, but was assured my many fellow DIY bloggers that I could sand off that bumpiness (they were right) and that it was not in fact ruined. Thank you KFD Designs and Young House Love for the tips! So then it sat in the dining room again acting as a sofa table for a few weeks. Well this weekend, I finally made friends again and finished the white touch ups and added on the pretty colored accents with glidden paint in hot pink (Disney's Invitation to a princess) and orange (behr's red hot). Sorry my before pictures aren't great.

Drawer before

Top Before

During - primed and painted

Drawer During

Detail After

After!

So I've been MIA for a while now...

2010-04-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

I promise more updates to come. But for now, I’d like to show you the before and after of this weekend’s project.

The chairs before started out as a $100 craigslist buy. More than ideal on Craigslist, but they were everything their posting implied – Vintage wicker chairs.

So on Friday, I took a ½ day from work and spray primed then painted them. Then headed to Tuesday morning, Homegoods and World Market for some accessories that you see here in the after.

Not a bad weekend activity, eh?

I’ll update more items soon, but I’m heading out of town for work and getting back just a couple days before the 116 coming out party, so it might be in a week or so. Cheers!

Shannon Burke, CMP

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2010-02-07T16:34:00.000-08:00

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MIA

2010-01-26T20:37:00.000-08:00

Hello Blog World...Sorry I've been mia lately. After the shelving excitement...I got a cold, then it turned into a cough, then I went to a conference in Dallas for meeting planners, had some fun, came down with whooping cough, layed down for a few days. Then on day 3 of the antibiotics, I joined my sainted parents in pulling out ucky old carpet from my roommates room, and put down fresh padding and carpet. This past weekend I cleaned my bedroom (save the pile of crap on the floor of my closet.), went to 2 parties, made brunch for Mom and Dad and worked with Mom to pull down the wallpaper border in my bedroom. Seriously it's been a lot of stuff in just one month...and it just keeps rolling. I HAVE to buy paint for my bedroom, PAINT my bedroom....before Friday when Mom comes over to help move furniture and Dad comes over to help rip out carpet, baseboards and tack strips...for the new carpet in my room. Lastly, I need to pain the kitchen and bathroom and I'll take a break on the home remodeling and really look into the home decorating side of things :) So if you are interested out there in blog world - let me know which of these pretty colors you like better for the accent wall in my bedroom (everything else is neutral at this point - starting with the wall).
I have glidden fresh pinapple yellow going back to the room, and am not against something in that family for the feature wall in my room, but I'm kind of leaning towards something different, perhaps a bright pink like sherwin williams 5859 feverish pink, one way or another, I will have paint tomorrow. Now I'll watch the rest of my new favorite train wreck vis a vis TV show - Little Miss Perfect and go to bed. I hope these girls grow up to be brilliant successful women - hope springs eternal. :)

2010-01-05T10:49:00.001-08:00

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Slow on progress...but there is progress...

2010-01-03T17:54:00.000-08:00

So with the holidays, I kind of took a break from doing stuff around the place that didn't involve the Christmas Tree. Enjoy the photo...that's my little yarny snowman too. Love that guy. :)

But today, I embarked on a project - to turn 2 6 foot boxes just like this one...

with some help from the instructions and my little electric screwdriver...

And now I have some pretty shelving...it needs some arranging, but they're built...
thanks to Dad who gave me moral support on #2, while we watched the Redskins fail the end of their season - unfortunatley it was to be expected.

And sorry for the not awesome photograhpy - my camera is broken, so we're working with my blackberry camera, which is good, but not perfect. :)

Talk to you soon!
Shannon

Work Weekend...and some fun.

2009-12-13T22:00:00.000-08:00

So this weekend included getting trees for my house and mom and dad's house. Then hung out over there with Sue and her little girl Brooke, while Des, Dad and Scott put together a grill - timing is everything. Saturday I woke up feeling kind of crappy and couldn't really motivate, I ended up getting all the crown molding sanded, got to hang out and visit with some great friends and volunteered at Ronald McDonald House - not a bad day. Today however, I did touch up on the ceiling and walls while listening to love actually, went to see New Moon, had a guiness while watching football, went to the hardware store to buy a tree stand, went to the auto parts store to get lights I'm missing, came home and finished touching up, painted the crown, set the nails on the base and spackled them while listening to Santa Baby 2 and White Christmas. What I know now is that is too much to do in one day, according to my feet mostly - though my back is loudly seconding the motion. The other thing I know is that now the crown (which I rethought about 100 times today) freaking looks awesome! I accidentally used the enamel for the doors instead of the plain latex paint - which Dad was concerned would make the seams to noticeable, but since I'd already done half we both decided it would be fine. :) Still have a redonk list of todos - including 3 large pieces of furniture that would like to be put together...but we're moving right along here. :) sleepy time now.

We have progress...and baseboards and crown molding

2009-12-05T16:31:00.000-08:00

So no time to really post, but Dad has been working like a trojan, and has finished putting up all but 15 inches of crown and all the baseboards. Today Dad caulked around the majority of the space and I spackled the cracks and nail holes...but the painting will have to wait till next week as I'm out to St. Louis for work. Here are some photos - enjoy. :)

So I'm going to build 2 of these shelves to go against the bali turquiose wall and still need to figure out what to put the TV on -

I'm thinking of this one - any thoughts?

Thanks!

Shannon

Good news!

2009-12-02T14:24:00.001-08:00

Dad is home and out of the hospital doing well, he said he feels fine, so hopefully that is true. Thank You
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Thank God for my Dad

2009-12-02T08:45:00.001-08:00

So my Dad is kind of my hero, he can do anything. This past week he has been working on the baseboards and crown molding in my new place. We thought the guys hired to sand the floors were going to come and help put everything done, unfortunately only one showed up on day one and didn't show up again after that. So Dad has been working overtime to get this done. Thankfully my mom and one of his best friends have stepped in, I feel terribly guilty sitting at my computer all day, while they all toil away at my house, but that's the way it goes.

Until Monday/Tuesday when dad woke up at 3 am and realized his heart was out of rhythm, a problem that has happened repeatedly, so now he is in the hospital and the doctors are messing with his drugs. Hopefully he can come home today, he has suggested that he'll be back to work tomorrow. One the one hand I do not want him to overdo it, but on the other hand I think he secretly loves having a project that he can finish. So prayers from the universe would be great.

Over and out.
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So apparently any time I blog from work, nothing is posted

2009-11-17T05:24:00.000-08:00

Serves me right, though. :) Here is an update on the floor and paint

before

and after

So I will update again after baseboards and the rest of the painting. Thanks Mom, Dad, Des, Karissa & Radell for the help!

Update to pringle projects

2009-11-09T11:05:00.001-08:00

Projects are like pringles...you can never have just one

2009-11-07T22:18:00.000-08:00

So I started the major process of ripping out dusty rose carpet from my condo to have the parquet floors refinished. Note to self: Always expect the unexpected when starting a renovation project. Today my mom, dad and friend KJ came over to help me pull up the carpet, a million staples, 70 feet of tack strips and baseboards. We did approximately 500 square feet in 6 hours - found approximately 20 damaged parquet tiles and a lot of white paint (apparently when they changed the building from apartments to condos in the 70s, they spray painted everything white including a good portion of the floor. So Dad is calling he sander-guy to reschedule and looking for the replacement tiles. Then after the carpet was out, we pulled out a ridiculous number of staples. So off to the Home Depot down the street to pick out paint colors, since the floors will get sanded, I will not have to worry too much about the paint getting on the floors. Since I couldn't make a snap decision on the paint, I got samples and painted posterboards to look at in the morning, but I'm pretty much in love with Ralph Lauren Bali Turquoise - its going to look awesome :) Other colors that I'm digging - fresh pineapple and granny apple by glidden. So what will I get done tomorrow? It will start with buying some tinted primer for the bali turquoise wall. Off to bed now.

Before

After

And Paint...good times!