This week I decided to take a much needed break from my little company…(which is growing like a healthy child!) and have a decorating vacation! Yep…I have been doing a little work on the inside of my house again. It has been 4 years now…I think it is about time I just finished the bits and pieces of this place that are not quite done…and maybe freshen it up a little bit along the way. Oh who am I kidding…I get bored looking at the same thing …and I MUST change it up here and there!
About a year ago I decided to do some painting in the house. I chose two colors that were not white or cream…and I did some decorating. It didn’t take long and I was in a total state of decorators regret! Although I do like the colors…they just did NOT work for this house. So…it’s time…again.
NO…I am not sharing any photos of that paint faux pas…in fact I am not sure that I even have any photos of the darker colors…it was shortly after that painting adventure that my little company decided to go gang busters, and I haven’t had time to do much other than work!
This week, while I was painting, I did a little purging…cleaned out the clutter…the old, the unwanted. I had set out three baskets…one for donations…one for trash, and one for things that simply need to be relocated. I am positive that all of the closets were thanking me for this. All of them except the front door closet.
The front door closet in this house has been my arch rival since the day we moved into this house. The door…which was supposed to be a sliding bi-fold door…was a nightmare. It would not stay on the track and would always swing all over the place and scratch up my floors…or just simply look ugly ALL the time. I hate the closet doors in this house. There…I said it, and no…I don’t regret it.
What do the front door closet doors even look like you ask??
When we first moved in…just before I painted the house…
I know right???? NASTY! So I painted them all…and we changed that ugly front door out…since this photo…and…I have painted a couple of times…lol.
I somehow managed to delete any other photos that I had of the front closet doors…so I will use this one of the cleaning supply cupboard. It is pretty much identical, so I am sure you will get the idea.
Instead of the doors sliding and folding…the whole thing just flops wide open! I just could not stand it anymore and took matters into my own hands.
Within minutes the heavy, ugly uncooperative closet doors were TOSSED out into the back yard!….ok…well neatly stood up against the fence. Hey…I didn’t want to damage the grass or anything!
I then went to town on a very special pile that I had been trying to save for that ‘one special project’. It only took about an hour and I had built myself a brand new Old Wood door!
Ta-da! My barn wood sliding door! I love the new look! The swarms of teenagers that are here on a regular basis love the new look! Anyone I have shared it with…thinks it looks fantastic! Even GRAMMIE liked it! (and she is so NOT a barn wood decorator…she’s very frilly and lacy) I have one more glider to put on that track…but otherwise it is finished!
…And that’s the end of the story! Well…sort of…almost…ya…there will never be an end to the story around here! I am plotting and scheming to replace some baseboards, trims and moldings here before I go in for a much needed surgery in the near future. I want my house to be totally in order so that I can recover without delays because I couldn’t stand to look at something …well you know. :)
I have some more project photos to share…but those are a story for a different day…so stay tuned!!! This Tootsie has been on a roll! :)
Until Next Time…Happy Junkin’/ Renovating/ Decorating!
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