Our roomies are another married couple around our age, with two little girls same ages as ours. We'll be splitting rent and household duties. The whole "it takes a village" idea. I think it'll be great.
Also great: my to-do list of little (and big!) projects will keep me occupied for a looonnng time.
Here's our progress so far during the 15 days we've been here. Total cost so far $250 for paint and supplies (not including new furniture, in that case $3,550)
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| Dining room before after. Amazing what some paint and a new light can do! Capiz shell chandelier and turquoise paint. White trim also, creates a beachy vibe. We still need a proper table and to paint the floor trim. But I like where it's at so far. |
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| Again, amazing what paint can do. We're pretty much under the belief that natural wood trim should be painted white. I also spray painted the ugly brass on the fireplace to make it a nice matte black with Rustoleum for hot surfaces. |
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| Our bedroom. White walls and ugly brown windowsill. A little paint, a nice new bed and a pretty antique map make for a very nice relaxing green and earth toned bedroom. |
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| Playroom! We think it was meant to be the formal dining room, but we're using it as the communal playroom. The paint we chose is a really nice bright (but not lime) green which we've lovingly named Guacamole. Makes me hungry. |
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| Upstairs living room before after. Light & dark grey paints, and a whole new living room setup from Ikea. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of the window side of the living room before I excitedly started painting. |
Cheap remodel paint project before after
I finally found a small note about your new house and looked it up. Looks great but I can't agree with painting natural wood since I love it natural. In the 11th street rental, we had just put in natural wood mopboards, door trims, and trim on one set of shelves. It had no trim. It was beautiful and I asked the renters not to paint them when they asked to paint after a year. However, they painted them messily anyway, so the natural wood is gone. However, after awhile nothing but paint will clean up some wood. I'm trying to decide whether to paint my kitchen cabinets and drawers. They have 32 year old varnish over 55+ year old varnish. Enough. Gmom Willis
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