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| Mom scoring the drywall before we jigged it out (that stuff is dusty!) |
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| The hole! That’s the vent for the fireplace and the back of the tv hole. |
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| Mom brought me a tool belt, it made me feel pretty badass. Here I am framing out the shelves. |
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| The finished product! Be impressed. |
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| It was really dusty, so I put Mavi’s doggles on. |
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| Oh, and he got in the paint. |
We got a new TV for the man cave and wanted to put the LCD above the fireplace. We thought about taking out the entire built-in for a 1990s TV, but instead we decided to build an amazing mount for it. A couple of two by fours, L-brackets and a tv mount later and it looked like the TV was meant for that spot!
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| TV hole before (with the new mount!) |
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| TV above the fire place! Woo hoo! |
We also installed a ton of new light fixtures, which really updated the house! Mom and I took out the boring dome light and awful flourescent light box in the kitchen and put in amazing new light from Ikea.
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| I do love Ikea! These are Ikea Tidig series |
And we took down the hateful, builder standard, 1993 gold chandelier. That thing was so stuck in there we didn’t think it was going to go back in well… and we were right. After, primer, 2 coats of textured black spray, new black chain and 2 hours of trying to reinstall the damn thing, we finally got it back in. I’ll deal with the 2 hours of hell (and accidentally smacking my Mom in the nose in the process) for a Pottery Barn look for only $5.
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| Hello Pottery Barn, goodbye crappy gold. |
We took the front entry from these lights:
Then we had an extra shade (they came from World Market as a set of three) and I really wanted some reading light in the corner above the chaise, so Mom and I took the metal from the fluorescent light box we ripped out in the kitchen and turned it into an almost invisible arm for the other shade. We took the light kit from the old entry lamp and spliced it with a extension cord to create another hanging lamp. It is probably my favorite project we did all weekend because it was completely unexpected and creative.
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| The perfect amount of glow for reading, watching TV or napping puppies. |
I couldn’t have done all of this without my Mom joining me. We had such an awesome weekend of power tools, Lowes trips and knocking down walls.
