Erik goes on a business trip every other month-ish. Every time he goes we play around briefly with the idea of me going with him, realize we're looking at a $500 plane ticket for me to see him for 2 hours in the evening before it's time to go to bed, and I send Erik off and settle in for three or four days of hanging out with the Housewives of Wisteria Lane. Whenever he leaves I try to do a house project. It keeps me busy, plus it's just easier to live in the chaos of a project when it's just me.
In July Erik went to Denver. In July I made over our closet. Our closet is really cute now, which is great, but also totally and completely pointless, because unless I invite guests over to have dinner in the closet, no one will ever see it. So there's like 20 hours of my life I can never have back. I switched out all my hangers from plastic to velvet, which was actually huge. It freed up a ton of space, plus it looks so much more uniform. I painted the walls from beige to gray, the ceiling from beige to white, and stenciled a quatrefoil-ish pattern in a darker gray. Mostly I wanted to test out stenciling somewhere unimportant to decide if I wanted to do it in my laundry room. Turns out I do not, so my laundry room is still ugly, but hey, let's take a look at that closet.
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| This is before. Not horrible, but kinda messy and the beige made me look like I had jaundice. |
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| This is after I painted but before I stenciled. It looks a little purple in this picture but it really is grey. |
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| mid stenciling |
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| close up on stenciling |
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| Here is an after. See all my matchy hangers? Love them. |
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| Erik's side (any my shoes) |
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So yeah, that was that. Today I'm putting away all my summer clothes and getting out my sweaters. yay fall!
Last week Erik went on a business trip to Vegas. My project this time is probably my favorite thing we've done to the house besides wall boxes in the music room. I painted all the doors on our upstairs floor black. I'd seen it on Pinterest, and was about 80% sure I would like it (Erik was about 20% sure he would like it, but there wasn't much he could do about it from Vegas). I pretty much love them.
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| Before. There's nothing wrong with them, just kinda boring |
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| This is the picture I sent to Erik to show him I was right |
I painted both sides of the doors, and it took one episode of Desperate Housewives per door. Overall about a 12 hour project, and unlike the closet, people will see it. Door project > closet project.
On an unrelated note, do people still wear puffy vests? I have like 3 and as I transition my closet I'm wondering if those are still a thing.
