New Master Shower!

Before.  Yellowing acrylic shower pan (impossible to clean) and white tile.
The tile wasn't in bad shape, but I wanted something with some more style!

After.  Added two recessed shelves (you can only see one of them).

Tile: Leonia silver porcelain tiles from Lowes, Casa Antica Gubbio marble floor mosaic from Floor and Decor, and glass mosaic strips from Lowes.

Brushed nickel showerhead coming on Tuesday!  

Frameless glass doors coming next week!

Painting Our Kitchen Cabinets!

We are having our kitchen cabinets painted white!  The color is White on White by Glidden, and the finish is semi-gloss.  "After" pictures to come later!!!

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After:

Workout Room

Painting the playroom/workout room!

Before (blue, tan, and green):

After (Behr Atmospheric, eggshell latex paint)... and with a doggie door for the litter box (not the same angle):

Fence Painting

I painted my fence this morning!!!  This is a little homemade fence that the previous owners built to cover the pool equipment and air conditioning unit.  What do you think... natural wood or painted?

Before:

After (same color as the house): 

Not so ugly now, is it???

Here are the final pictures of our previously ugly house.  These were taken by Shoot2Sell Photography and are the official pictures on our real estate listing.  I love how bright and big the house looks!  I'd buy it!!!

Painting the Master Bedroom

Just painted the first wall of the master bedroom!  I know it's not the same angle but here's the before and after.  I think the gray and white is so much more relaxing and clean looking than the tan!  The color is Glidden's Pebble Grey, in case anyone is interested!  I think it is a gorgeous color especially with the white trim.  Thinking about painting the ceiling white, too... right now it's kind of a greenish gray.

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After:

Our Tiny Master Bathroom

We moved into a new house about 10 days ago, and my first official project was to paint the tiny master bathroom!  I used the same color from the old house's powder bathroom, Behr's Pewter Tray.  It is a very spa-like color and I think it looks much brighter and fresher than the yellowish tan from before.  It also goes well with the pretty grayish marble tile and my white waffle shower curtain!

Eventually I'd love to remodel our bedroom which is almost TOO big, and re-allocate some of the space for the bathroom.  But it has been working out just fine so far!

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After: 

Staining the Fence!

My wonderful brother came up from Austin and stained my entire fence for me!

Before:
Very weathered, gray old looking wood.  I have always hated the fence but I didn't know how easy it would be to fix!

After:
The grass doesn't look as good right now, but the fence looks fabulous!  We pressure washed the fence then used semi-transparent deck stain from Sherwin Williams and sprayed it on with a paint sprayer (also from Sherwin Williams).  The total cost was only about $250 ($90 to have it pressure washed by a guy from Craigslist and $160 for 5 gallons of stain) plus the cost of the sprayer, but hopefully we can use that again ($40).  The color is called Riverwood, and it's a little more orange than I was hoping for.  I think stains are supposed to start fading after a few years... if we still live here I'm going to go for a darker chocolate brown next time.

Tubular Skylights

My wonderful husband installed two 10-inch tubular skylights in our previously dark master closet.  I am absolutely in love with the results.  We were planning on only installing one, but it seemed almost like a spotlight in the back of our closet.  After adding a second one to the front of the closet, the room looks just as it would with the light on.  In fact when I walk by it, I keep thinking I need to turn off the light!  The first one took almost 6 hours to install, but the second one (a week later) took about 3.

They were $153 each at Home Depot and I think the results are worth WAY more than that.  Hopefully it adds some value to our house!!!  The brand we went with is ODL but I know there are a couple of other main brands out there - Velux and Solatube I think.

Yay for free natural light!!!

Guest Bath Cabinets

Before:

 After removing cabinet door and painting white semi-gloss:

While I guess we're technically getting rid of storage space, which sounds like a downgrade... I think there's enough storage in the drawers and cabinets under the sink that these weren't really necessary for storage anyway.  Plus, with the ugly mesh cabinet doors it wouldn't have been practical to use these for storing toiletries anyway.  So now they are for decoration only, but I think it's an overall improvement!