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April20's thread on her DH's home project has inspired me and I want to see more!

Not photos of TV's hung at great heights :bigsmile: But of the wonderful things you have been doing in your home :))

April, that wall of yours is SENSATIONAL and I almost can't believe that you put that on with a stencil. I would have sworn that it was wall paper. If you would be so kind, I would love to see more pictures of it - close up / in detail, from different angles, what ever it is that you wish to share! Do you have any other amazing projects going on at home?

How about you PSer's?

Please share any photos of home projects that you have been doing lately. I love seeing all of the wonderful and creative things that PSer's come up with.
 
About 2.5 years ago we decided to renovate our brown brick kitchen. It remained unfinished for about 2 years (!) because we couldn't decide what we wanted to do with our splashback. (or backsplash, depending on which hemisphere you're in ;)) )

We knew we wanted glass but we couldn't agree on a colour as it was such a big area. We didn't want to choose something that blended in too much since our kitchen is completely white and we didn't want to go too incredibly bold and end up hating it within a few years time.

We settled on a custom wallpaper project that was seriously more stressful than the actual kitchen renovation itself. The final product isn't exactly what we thought we would end up with in terms of the colours as there was a few issues with the printing but the overall style and design has left us more than happy with the end result.

The beauty of it is, that if we get sick of it in a few years time we can take down the glass and change the wallpaper to something new.

For reference, these two photos are what we started with before the renovation, and what we lived with for about 2 years..

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and this was the day the glass was installed over the wallpaper





and with the lights on





Thanks for looking and I hope we get to see some more PS projects! :wavey:

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Wow, I would have never thought of glass over wallpaper. I love it!
 
:love: HOT!!! That's AMAZING!!! :love:

Wow - that is STUNNING what you've done!!! Congrats - love that glass over wallpaper look!!! :appl:
 
I LOVE it. Stroke of genius! Your kitchen should be featured on HGTV.
 
That's awesome HOT! I love that you can change out the paper behind..is it easy to clean?

Inside home stuff, I have nothing. We have yet to finish even one room entirely, which is pretty sad and frustrating. We redid the bathroom last year but..the switch plates aren't the right size, nobody would listen to me that varnish would turn my whitewash yellow so now all the woodwork is pinky yellow instead of white and needs to be redone. The basement flooded in AUGUST and still is completely unusable. (sharing a bathroom w/husband since then, that's a treat lemme tell ya..)
 
WOW!!! HOT that looks stunning!!!! :love: :appl:
 
Thanks lknrbv4, Enerchi, Effe, pack rat, and DandiAndi!! :bigsmile:

Packrat - now I wish that the outside of my home looked like yours!! Your gardens are amazing and I wish I had your talents in that area! We still have sandy patches where nothing grows... I understand how frustrating this home Reno stuff gets too. We may have semi finished the kitchen but every other room is still stuck in the 70's! Trust me. :)

The glass isn't too hard to clean. Once I get the fat splat off I give it a quick spray with window cleaner to make it shine again. :))
 
I took some pics but I can't post them right now. My Internet is down and I've only got my phone. I will post them as soon as I'm back in action!
 
I'm back online- finally!

Okay, here are pictures of the stenciled wall. I bought the stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils on Etsy. The shop is here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/CuttingEdgeStencils?ref=seller_info They are really easy to do- they have guide marks that you paint with each set and it allows you to line them up with no measuring. I also bought a level that slides onto the top of the stencil so you can easily make sure it's straight. They're really cleaver, those stencil selling people.

The frustrating part is trying to get the blue painter's tape to stay stuck to the wall so you can paint it. Try as you might to keep excess paint off your roller, it still builds up on the stencil, making it heavier and making it harder for the tape to stay stuck. You end up with more and more tape and you thinking it's stuck good and tehn you reach for the roller and the tape lets go and you start yelling bad words........

I'm attaching pictures of it in progress so you can see the guide marks. You paint two of the designs at a time- basically and "upper left" and "lower right". Then you line up the guide marks and paint the next two.

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Here's super up close.

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HOT: I love what you did with the backsplash. The glass over wall paper is so, so clever! I LOVE the pattern! And it's easy to change if you get sick of it.
 
Here's another one of my project. I don't have "before" pictures because it was HORRIFYING. Basically, I had a 20 year old bathroom with a glazed cast iron tub (read = cheap) and awful, awful 4 x 4 tile with nasty grout on the walls and nasty, nasty 8 x 8 tile on the floors. We gutted the entire bathroom. Everything. Gone.

I now have a dark charcoal floor- 12 x 12 tiles on 45 deg angle, a jetted tub and carrara marble tile walls in the shower. I have a new sink cabinet, toilet, etc, but really, the shower is the star. I did standard size subway tiles for the walls with a 12" verticle stripe of penny tiles running up the wall where all the faucets are. I also did the penny tile on the back wall of the niche.

This bathroom is my pride and joy. Along with my stenciled wall, that is.

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Okay, one more project- this one is in process. I had the backsplash in the kitchen tiled. But I think it looks lonely. I hate that the adjacent wall doesn't connect in. So... I'm going to have the entire blasted thing tiled. I just have to get the tile guy out here! Here's a pic of my tile and a pic of the wall that is going to be done. I will post final pics when I get it completed.

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gotta say that wallpaper w/glass over it in the kitchen as a backsplash is brilliant!

also, loving that shower!
 
I saved that stencil store to my favorites..I would love to do a pretty one, like the songbirds one in London's room when we redo it, or some flowers. I'd like to do something in the kitchen and living room when we redo that too..JD's not much for that kind of stuff tho so it will take a lot of persuading!

HOT, thanks about the yard! We've got so many ideas for the house inside..it's just getting the money to do it-it all ends up going towards the outside. The walls are painted downstairs, so it doesn't look too horrid or anything..I just know once it's done it's going to look so kick ass I want to hurry and get it done! One side of the basement is a super dark purple, the other a super dark mud gray, and then the trim and shelving is a shade of white.
 
April - your stencilling (from this and the OTHER TV thread!) is amazing!!! and your bathroom shower - TDF!!! :love: :love: and there's more --- your kitchen backsplash - wow!! If your DH is able to do all these things --- I'd forgive him the TV mounting error (just as long as he can unmount and reset it much much lower!)
 
Enerchi|1336682154|3192356 said:
April - your stencilling (from this and the OTHER TV thread!) is amazing!!! and your bathroom shower - TDF!!! :love: :love: and there's more --- your kitchen backsplash - wow!! If your DH is able to do all these things --- I'd forgive him the TV mounting error (just as long as he can unmount and reset it much much lower!)


Yeah, he can't do any of the tiling. We have a tile guy. :cheeky: He's an electrician, so he did do all my recessed cans, my dining room fixture, added some outlets, etc, but that's it. We hire everything else out. Heck, sometimes we even hire one of his guys to do electrical work because he doesn't have time.
 
My project for this year to paint and paint some more, lol, I need to paint my living room, my bedroom, my hall and the upstairs bathroom, I am also going to move my office from the downstairs bedroom to the upstairs bedroom, however it was my youngest son's room (he moved into his older brothers bigger bedroom) and it a very bright green, so I need to repaint that as well and while I am at it I also need to paint the outside windows and the porch.....I have lots and lots of painting to do :wacko:
 
April - your projects are absolutely fabulous!!

I still can't believe you did that stenciling. It just looks so perfect! It's good to hear that the stenciling people make it easy for you though. :)) Maybe i could do it afterall. :))

I love your bathroom! Ours needs a major gutter and redo as well. The spotty tile that you have running in the strip down the center of the shower, - would you believe i have a sample of the exact same tile at home that i am holding onto for when we finally do ours?! I picked it up when looking for kitchen splashback ideas and i still love it! It's great to see it in a finished bathroom as well.

I think that's a great idea to continue the tiling on in the kitchen! It's going to give the wall and amazing effect!

Thanks MZ! I'm actually really suprised that more people haven't heard of it or done it before, esp in the US since you guys are way more ahead trends and ideas like that. It was the fist one that the glass people had ever done. They were pretty skeptical of the idea but i convinced them it would work.

diamondrnglover - i hear you on the painting! It seems like a never ending job. I have patches on walls where i have tried out a colour and not gotten any further and half of my doors and door frames have been painted white and the other half are still a really ugly cream colour... oh well i'll get to it one day. ::)

Does anyone else have any projects going on?
 
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