Closet Space

Our last home project of my winter break was to improve our master bedroom closet. It's a sort of oddly shaped walk-in closet with two long shelves that didn't use the space very well. So I bought a Rubbermaid closet kit that was on sale at Menards, and we got to work putting it up. It is a pretty simple thing, just level the rails and screw it into the wall. It's the kind of thing you can do in a couple hours - BUT that's not counting removing the old hardware, filling in the holes it leaves in the wall and painting it over. So the quick project took about three days while we waited for spackle, primer and paint to dry, but the finished product is great! Plus, we can move the shelves/rods around any time we want.


I can finally put my sweaters on shelves that I can actually reach AND see! Yay!

DIY dining room chair rail

We just finished our first big project in the house - the dining room. We figured we might as well do it now before we have any furniture for the room. The houses in our neighborhood are pretty cookie-cutter, so it's really nice to have something that feels like our own.

Here's what it looked like before:


The whole house has that same beige color on the walls with the white baseboards.

Here's how it looks now, with wedgewood blue paint and chair rails along the wall. We love the new look, and it's so great to see something like this that we've done with our own hands!


On a side note, the painting on the wall is one that Paul's grandfather made. It looks great with the new color scheme!