We moved into this house three years ago. I’m not sure who built it but I do know one thing about them…they liked pink. A LOT. Now, you all know how much I like pink but when it comes to walls and woodstain…not so much. It’s not like it’s PINK PINK, it’s more like the wood and the paint were beige but had undertones that turned pretty princess pink when the sun hit it.
When we moved in, I fully intended to pretty much gut the house. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great house and I love it but it’s just not me yet. As far as girls go, I’m a little weird in that there is nothing I dig more than construction. While I was off work for four years, I managed to build two houses from the ground up and decorate several others. I love it, I live for it…nothing gets me more excited than blue prints, paint chips and texture choices. Throw in some drywall and a bucket of nails and well, I can’t speak of what happens next.
I know, I’m really exciting and all.
Long story short, or short story long…whatever…I went back to work immediately after moving into this house and have spent the last three years walking around growling at all the flaws. There are many areas that I wanted to take a blow torch to but the chief offender has always been the cabinets in the family room. Every day I would look at them and wish that I could spork my eyes out so I would never have to look at them again.
Not anymore! Last week, we finally called in the professionals and started renovations.
This is what the den looked like the day “Project Pink” started:
Here’s the offending cabinet before I put it to death:
Can you see the pink in that wood? Also, I was so desperate to cover it up, I actually used the Thanksgiving Easter Bunny Turkey that was such a joy to create…can you see him in the shelves? Also, the Pagoda Cat House makes us “internacional” because we are all about being global.
We also did the mantle and the TV cabinet but I’ll try not to bore you with those.
Here we are midway. The cabinets were painted with an undercoat of gold first which as shocking as it was, it was better than it was the day before.
Here’s the rest of the room, the part that caused me to go all Rain Man and start walking in concentric circles while yelling, “Five Minutes To Wapner! Five Minutes To Wapner!” because disorder in any way, shape or form causes me to go just a tiny bit crazy.
These are the drawers that caused me to go all street rat crazy like Kate Gosslin on Saturday, minus the hair. Much like her Jon, The Man rolled his eyes a lot at my antics and was smart enough to duck when I started spontaniously throwing things in the general direction of the trash. Thankfully, he was also smart enough not to go bar hopping with any 23 year olds during my rant either. This is one of the many reasons I love him so. No drawer was allowed back into the cabinet without being totally dumped and washed. Much like Bitchmas, everyone stayed the hell out of my way. Smart, smart people.
Also, do you know how many wires it takes to connect one TV? THIS MANY:
The end result was worth it though. After about ten hours of trying to get our family room back in order on Saturday, it looked like this:
And my old friend, the pink wood cabinet, looks like this:
Not pictured: The bonfire that resulted from the burning of the Cat Pagoda.
A special shout out to The Painter Chicks who made this possible….if you are in the Frisco area, these girls are the bomb…and no, they didn’t give me a financial break to post this, I love them just that much!
Next week, we start painting the entire room. Because I know you care deeply about these things, looks like we are going with Wheat Gold with an umber glaze.
I know…YOU CARE.
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Huge difference. I so wish you could see the spare bedroom at this house–we call it the Murder Room. It has some black walls, some white, and red white and black spatters all over–like someone as slaughtered in there. Considering my business as a murder lawyer, it is only fitting that it used to be my office and where I keep my true crime library.
I hate it but cannot seem to get a vision to deal with it–and the bathroom that goes with it–that will make you hurl
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seriously, you rock. What a freakin improvement
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Freakin’ Hell, sister! You totally Pottery Barned it.
Our house was occupied by a widower lawyer and five teen daughters. It was a pink-a-palooza but quite salvageable.
Oh, and construction? Saucy gets all tingly when she wears her tool belt.
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So much better, it’s amazing what a little paint can do.
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Where the hell did the Thanksgiving Easter Bunny Turkey go??
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I do LOVE stuff like this. I love re-decorating so much. Unfortunately, my husband does not give a rat’s ass and I’m stuck. Pffft..he thinks tuition and house payments are a tad bit more important.
I bought my parent’s house two years ago and have been dying to make it my own. Baby steps. Right now it’s pretty much a shrine to my teenage years.
That’s how my blog started actually, as a chronicle of remodeling my 1980′s kitchen (back in January)…it is still 1985 in all it’s glory.
Wow, what a difference some paint and some vision can make! I love redecorating and we are currently renovating a loft that we can hopefully move into!!
This is a great before and after post
It looks great and I love the wheat gold that will go on the walls. We’ve been in our house 3 years and have painted every single wall and hubs scraped popcorn off of every ceiling (he does it all and it’s annoying sometimes). The kitchen? The master bath? Each will take 30-40K so we live with it as is…..
Wow, that looks great!
I like pink too, but not in large doses and definitely not on walls unless it’s in the room of a little girl.
I don’t ever want anyone to say to me: Quoting “Steel Magnolias”: it looks like the whole room been sprayed down with pepto bismol!
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I LOVE the Painter Chicks! And I LOVE your new and improved look!
Can I come over to take a peek? Now?
How about now?
And now?
Can I do it now?
Now?
Pretty please?
How about now???
Anyway, I’m on my way….
M
The Man did a great job painting everything. You enjoy a lot of the same things i enjoy…we should get together and watch “This Old House” sometime. I can’t wait to come up to Frisco and see the new place. See ya Monday?
Does everyone in the world have a box of random wires like that? Me thinks it’s true.
OMG, I want to paint my bedroom this weekend, but seriously, this whole fear of going Kate G. on my version of Jon gives me the shakes.
Also, the last time we undertook a home improvement project, I got pregnant….so, on second thought, I may stop at Lowe’s tonight on the way home from work.
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Wow! That looks awesome!
Feel free to come on over to NC and help me annihilate the ‘builder caucasian’ that adorns all my damn walls.
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That looks soooo much better!
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I love home improvement projects! Keep em coming!
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Looking good. We’re the same way when it comes to decorating. We let it go and go, and when we finally pull the trigger, dive into a project, and “get ‘er done”…we shake our heads and say “why the hell did we go so long with it looking this way?”
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when Ana and I joined junk (moved in together) 3 years ago it was like 80/20 her stuff. I said, babe, I love you but you gotta lose some of that.
Now we have a kid and got it all back.
I love any kind of construction related activity. JR buys all my gifts at Lowes or Home Depot.
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You SO do not want to come to my house. Not pink.
PURPLE.
Yep. Purple and blue and red and black.
Even the fireplace. PURPLE.
I actually looked at the ‘after’ picture and whispered, “Oh! Pretty!” Me likey. What an improvement.
We almost bought a pink house a few years ago. Wall to wall pink carpet on two floors, pink tile, pink stucco and dark oak *shudder* cabinetry. I’m so glad now that we were outbid. It would’ve taken years to redo the thing.
Can’t wait to see your wall paint!
Oh and “bitchmas”? Thank you for that.
Right now, the biggest blight in our house is the fireplace, which is just butt-ass UGLY. Do you know how much it costs to reface a brick fireplace? Needless to say, I’m learning, reluctantly, to live with it.
However, when we moved into our house, the dining room had a bamboo chandelier. Yes – BAMBOO. The wall paper in there complimented it all too well. The very first thing I did, the minute we signed the papers and closed on the place, was to take the bamboo piece of doo-doo down and start stripping wall paper.
It was oddly, and immensely, gratifying.
Kudos from one construction diva to another.
I once lived down the street from a Barney Purple house that made national news when our homeowners association sued the owners. They were purple crazy (cars,flowers,clothing and all the hardwood floors stained purple) and I found out later the guy was a physician and his whole office was purple right down to the stationary.
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You’re making me want to remodel. Stop it.
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It’s looking much better, the gold/yellow cabinets are a lovely color…much better than that strange pinkish tone! Nice work.
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Although truthfully, when I was there, I didn’t see any pink, the dark stain looks fantastic. And if the men were only there 8 hours, I’d say you made out like the pink panther.
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Wow – what a project! The pink beige thing… what’s up with that? Was it an 80s thing?
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Holy cow, that looks amazing!!!
1928677 beers on the wall.
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