An update before the update

 

A few little updates for you since we last visited about the foyer and The Game Plan.

Our plans were:

1.  Flooring - pinstripe the floor with TWO different types of wood.  We also threw down some floor heat first since we're always up for a challenge.  I know, I make it sound like it's so easy.

The floor heat we went with was in the form of a mat that you install under the flooring.  Easier and cleaner than the kind that you mortar the wire into the flooring.... So we thought.

 

 

This floor heat deal was a major pain in the ass.  In order for the floor heat to conduct the most heat, we needed to lay a sub flooring down over the cement.  Husband bolted the sheets of plywood down with one of those crazy bolt injector thingys you use bullets in and it makes you jump 10 feet in the air every time you whack it.  Know what I'm talkin' bout Willis?  Yeah, well, he did that on the ENTIRE floor and then decided that it wasn't good enough, ripped them all up, then WE - yes WE - slathered self-leveling adhesive all of the G-damn floor and put the wood back down again.  I swear, we are our own worst enemies at times.  I would show you pictures, but I was covered in what looked like cement puke.

Feel it - it's warm.  Ooooooooo! 

2. Barn Wood Wall - as I type this post from my hospital bed, all I can think about is that it was so worth it. 

We ripped this baby down in 10 degree weather. My fayth and handths wath reewey reewey cold when we were done.

We went from this:

 

 

 To this:

(Patsy has that really crabby look on her face because she caught me trying to take a photo without her in it.  What a bitch.  Literally.)

3.  Faux Tin Ceiling - Copper paint with a dark stain distress/wash over it..... FAIL.

(There's a Shock Top beer in the background... Shocker)

You might be thinking, "well that doesn't look bad" and I agree - it doesn't. BUT, it wouldn't dry.  The stain over the top of the paint never dried completely so I was forced to abandon yet another dream.  Drink and try again.


4.  Built-in lockers  - I recently divulged I had hopped on the re-purpose wagon.  This also includes the chalk paint, milk paint rage.  Another big FAIL:

Milissa no likey white chalk paint with dark wax.  Milissa sucked at it and threw a pretty good tantrum.  Drink and try again.

5.  Chandelier - Still TBD.  Do we build one or buy one?  And, what precautions need to be taken with having a large, swinging object hanging from our ceiling?  I get kind of a weird, exciting urge just thinking about it.... TMI?  It's ok, we're all friends here.


We did have 2 new helpers join us for this project, Walt & Penyo!  Let me introduce you:

Walt

And Penyo

 

They weren't a ton of help but they sure made the work more tolerable.

 

 

Confession:

So, I started this blog post a few months ago and then forgot that I started it so I actually have the finished product (mostly) to show you but I can't waste a blog post so there's that.  Another update to follow this one SOON!