16 hours straight and 50 hours total in 3 1/2 days!

The Blanding project was a HUGE project! It wore us out so much that I swear our arms needed to be amputated!!! The original paint color was what I call DIRT with a hint of yellow/off-white! We first primed three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen, including the kitchen cabinets, and 5 built-in cabinets through out the house, then we painted the walls with an off-white paint, which really looked WHITE to me. Not only did we paint we had a tiling project in the bathroom!!! 33 hours in 2 1/2 days was CRAZY! But we did it, we have to go down one more time to do some finish up work....but the pay was awesome!! Was it worth it? You guess that one! I did have to keep myself on Ibuprofen the whole time!

Before

After

Before

After



Here you can tell more of a difference in paint

Look how dirty the walls are!

Dave's tiling project (I wasn't there for the Before picture!)

This is what the tile look like Before they ripped it out, mostly the pink tile!

After

In-laws House

Dave's parents have asked us to paint their main level along with moldings and cabinetry work! Demolition Dave has proven himself worthy of making cabinets, they look AWESOME!!! This is going from PINK walls and BLUE carpets to browns!!!! We have already painted their family room and their cabinets (built-in book cases) are almost done, a few more days!!!! Here are some pictures and we'll post more as we finish things!

The Before's

Say goodbye to pink and blue wallpaper!

After

Here is the family room painted with the browns, this picture does not do the painting justice, I just can't get a good picture of this room, the lighting is horrible!

Blanding House

We have a major project we were hired to do, and we can't wait to do it!!! So we are going to interior paint a whole house in Blanding, Utah!!!! We definitely are going to be DIY Dave and Jana!!! I will post pictures as soon as I get some!!! Not only are we painting we are tiling one of the bathrooms!!! See ya soon in a few days!

Alder Door for SALE

WE are selling an Exterior Alder Door that Dave built!!! If you want any details on the price or anything else, let me know!

Custom Made Doors

Dave made this interior door, it is made out of Mahogany, it also has a dark mahogany finish. He is now building custom made doors, so if anyone is interested in exterior or interior doors, we can give you a free estimate on them. He just built an Alder Exterior door that is just beautiful that he is selling, if you want details on it, let me know.

Kitchen Remodel

It took me FOR-EV-ER to do the Kitchen!!! Vacations, detours, kids, life just kept getting in the way of me finishing it!!!! This is still just a temporary makeover for our Kitchen, Dave is going to make cabinets himself as soon as he gets other projects out of the way. We will eventually put Natural Cherry wood cabinets in the Kitchen just like our FRONT door. So what do you think for temporary?

Before

After

Close up on detail

Detour

We had a little detour in our remodeling, our front door got jammed. The knob broke and so we bought an awesome new door handset, which they said is a standard size and should match up to the pre-made holes in our door. Well, it wasn't standard it didn't even match up...as we were figuring this out we realized the casing was stripped out and that was the REAL problem with our door. So we found an unfinished cherry wood door for an awesome price, and Dave sanded & stained it and also had to make his own casing. It ended up quite a project!!!! Dave was sad he didn't have the time to actually make his own door from scratch but we needed a door at that moment and here is what we came up with....

Before

The door still needs molding around it

Pruning

Our yard has so many trees and bushes that it takes a whole lot of time to keep up on the yard work, I have done it all myself this summer and I am beat!!!! I had to prune so much off of the bushes that there are some definite bare spots, but there is such a big difference! Take a look!

The Mess

Before

After

The pile followed by a headache!

Survived the Summer!

My favorite renovation for the Glass House so far is that we updated our cooling & heating system!!! Yes we switched from thee Ol' Swamp cooler to our beloved Central AIR!!! We also got a new furnace, we'll see the benefits of it this Winter. If you want your house to have any worth, gotta have the central air!!!! lol So why should you get rid of the swamp cooler if you have central air? Because they are two different ways of cooling, so if you have them working at the same time, they are working against each other...I guess you could still keep the swamp cooler and use it instead of central air when it isn't so hot, but in our case we had to get rid of the swamp cooler, there was too much space in our house for it to try and reach, and it never got passed the hallway and stairs!
I am sooooo grateful for the central air, I didn't even realize it was summer, it was working that well!

So here is how you get the swamp cooler off your house!

The MILE TILE update!!!

Hey everyone!!! It's almost time to get REALLY excited!!! Dave has been working on our guest bathroom since Winter and he is almost done!!! This is very exciting because it is the bathroom everyone uses on the main floor. It is a full bathroom and we are seriously decking it out! WE are most definitely into the Victorian look, we love the antique look and old stone. We have a special surprise for those who haven't heard anything about our bathroom yet, so keep your eyes open for an update on the bathroom here soon! WE use real travertine tile, not porcelain... the walls are being tiled too, Dave likes to do all the intricate work that makes you say "WOW"! I am so excited!!!!

The baby's room is done!!!!

Okay this project took FOR-EV-ER! We started the baby's room before Ashton was born, but we decided to do our own bead board with Dave's router. With work, three children and other obligations Dave took 6 months to get the board up...then the fact that I had to paint every little crevice was overwhelming as it was! I started off with just rollers and a paint brush, it took me three hours alone to do 6-8 boards! Finally, we bought a paint gun, that was awesome except whenever the gun ended up clogged with paint I lost more time. Then finally when Dave was in Boston for one of his business trips, I finally got the desire to surprise him and finish the project up while he was gone. He was thrilled that I finally did it!

See how crazy we are? Dave really did make our own bead board!

Here comes the paint!

It looks tons better!!!!! YAY!

Here it is in the the middle of the process.

The middle bathroom

So it takes a little time and money to get the remodeling done! I hate oak cabinets I can NOT stand looking at them. The house came to us pretty dirty. The walls needed and overdue paint job. When we moved into our house their was tons of dust caked on the doors, cabinets and walls. So it was a lot of work from the beginning. But some things just can't stay the same, I needed a change! So I decided to paint the cabinets in the middle bathroom (kid's bathroom) and paint the walls. This is temporary for now until brand new cabinets get on our list. We have two other projects in the making but I couldn't stand this bathroom any longer. So this is what I came up with for now...eventually we will get new cabinets, counters, tile, and fixtures...


HOW TO DO IT:

What you need:

eye wear
mask
blue tape
primer
Rich Mahogany behr paint
Smooth paint rollers
Paint brush
Paint trays
60 grit sandpaper
sander

1.)Take cabinet doors off, put screws and in a ziploc bag and put somewhere safe where you will remember.
2.) Do a light sand on the cabinets, enough so the paint can stick.
3.) Wash the sand particles off with a wash cloth.
4.) Prep the work place with the blue tape, taping off anything you do NOT want painted.
5.) Prime the cabinets with a paint roller (the # of coats depends how absorbent the cabinets are, only do a max. of two coats)
6.) Let dry for a few hours
7.) Use the paint brush to get the paint into the cracks
8.) Roll on two coats of Rich Mahogany
9.) Put doors back on after cabinets dry over night