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This spring, one of my soul sisters Liz Ballard and I decided to tackle a girl's suite together. I'll save all the funny stories of roaches, towel rods flying into the toilet, oil-based paint hands, curtain whiplash, and late night paint-fume sniffing and just get to the nitty gritty: our before photos, our after photos, and then a list of the AMAZING people who helped us out this year. We are forever indebted to these wonderful people who continue to give and are already asked us about our next project. ::::sigh:::: We know some great people, huh? We also met many other great design souls that we now call friends through RSA!
Little project breakdown for you first. We approached this like any other design plan:
- Timeline
- CAD plan
- Budgeting
- Shopping
- DIY
- Hard labor. Hard, hard labor.
- More labor.
- And just when you thought the labor was done... you decided to wallpaper your fridge. And hang your own backsplash. And disassble the cabinets. And pint your countertop. And, and, and.
- Cleaning
- Handpainted artwork (the night before install, naturally)
- Installing
- Jumping with joy
- Photographing
- Partyyyyyyyyyy
beer break at fox brothers bbq. totally necessary. |
oops..oil-based paint! |
brass chandy via grey furniture |
backsplash arranging took about 2 hours. |
island painting. |
and this was one of the cleaner days.. |
finishing touches with our quote wall via kfddesigns |
adding pom-poms is always a yes. |
custom art by moi. |
Huge shouts of praise to the following people for donating goods, services,
and/or mulah!
Both my and Liz's families
Mary Wamack
Liz Nations
Rebecca Walker
Liz McKernan
Jessie Deresch
Heather Royal
Derrick Currey
Daltile
Grey Furniture
KFD Designs
KFD Designs
Underfoot Flooring
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Glidden
Susan Chambers, Pixel Interiors
Home Depot
Michael Boyd and Associates
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
xoxox