Before and After Dining Room
August 4, 2013
Well, we didn't even plan to do the Dining Room (which is really an office) because we don't need a formal dining room. However, when I went to the beach to see my fam a couple of weeks ago, the Sage stripped all the hideous wallpaper off the wall and primed them for me before I returned! :) That way, all I needed to do was add some paint and decor.
So as a reminder, this is where we started when we moved into this foreclosure: :)
Note, the serious lack of a floor, the chandelier, and the dark wall paper. :)
First things first, we put a floor in. (It's the same as the rest of the main area.) A wonderful High Gloss African Mahogany laminate from Lumber Liquidators that God helped us get on the low-low.
So, we put the floor in and then put in our office stuff, knowing that eventually we'd have to peel the wallpaper and do all that good stuff.
Well, we painted (it matches the living room since the rooms are connected without a break and I didn't want it to look like I lived in a clown house. I wanted to put black in this room to separate it from the feel of the living room, so I did almost everything with decor. We stripped the wall paper, primed and painted it, removed the chandelier and added a new light fixture, and we put the baseboard back on after we repainted them white (since time had turned them yellow. ) The rest is simply decor. I still want to get a black and white circular floor rug for this area. However, here is the finished product.
The polka dot squares above and below are simply cute fabric stapled to shoe box tops.
The painting centerpiece I painted myself. I got the canvases on sale for cheap at JoAnns (they were like 1/2 off, plus I had a 20% off coupon.) I got the idea from this picture on pinterest, except I did mine black with white circles.
Done and done!
Cheap and Effective way to clean your stainless steel appliance
Things you'll need:
Barkeeper's Friend
WD40
soft sponge
paper towels
Howdy folks,
Well, as we began furnishing our little condo foreclosure, we realized that all of the appliances were seriously old. I mean 1980s, and not cute vintage appliances either. Strange, knobby behemoths. See evidence below.
This was the microwave. It was so sketchy, we didn't keep it around long for fear that we might some how get radiation poisoning.
Replacing the appliances was our first order of business. We bought a great cheap stainless steel fridge off of Craig's list. Unfortunately, it had some kind of rust stains on it that we couldn't figure out how to get out.
After some research, we found a post somewhere that talked about using Barkeeper's Friend and WD40. So, we tested it out.
First, I wet a SOFT sponge and poured a generous amount of Barkeeper's Friend on the sponge. Then, using an up and down motion only, I wiped it on the refrigerator. (Please don't mind the SARS mask. B was sawing in the kitchen, and there was sawdust EVERYWHERe. More on that later).
Notice the up and down motion and soft side of the sponge. (you can rub hard as long as the sponge is soft.)
Then, wipe down the fridge with a wet towel.
The change was AMAZING. To seal it, spray a soft towel with WD 40, and wipe up and down. The fridge now looks brand new.
Perfecto!
Sidenote: I can no longer tape pictures to the front because the WD40 makes the surface slick.
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