Right before you have 6 house guests coming is the correct time to start a project right??
This was our dining room on Sunday. The chair rail has always been highly annoying, its basically a window molding and its so low my chairs leave marks on the walls. Its bugged us for 10 years.
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| Dining Room before |
We pulled off the chair rail and discovered this craziness. Bright pink paint and dark pink, gray, blue wallpaper.
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| Left wall of DR |
The other side of the wall had a different wallpaper. Who used to own this house anyway? Romper room? I'm ignoring the signs of water damage.
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| Right side of DR |
Now after many, many pencil marks, a compound miter saw that was used for something other than collecting dust, a laser level, and lots of finishing nails, we have a paint-ready product!
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| The new chair rail is 4 inches higher and prettier. |
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| Close-up of the chair rail |
And of course we had to upgrade the thermostat to this fancy model, the Nest. When the light is off, I pretend its HAL and that its watching me.
Just needs wood putty, paint, and I have to decide if I'm going to really upgrade the whole thing with navy blue wallpaper. I'm sure HAL will tell me what to do...
1 comment:
Looks much better with the new chair rail. If you're feeling ambitious with that miter saw you could do a mitered return on the ends of your chair rail. Here's a blog entry showing how:
http://sawdustgirl.com/2013/07/24/cutting-and-installing-a-mitered-return-on-trim-molding/
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