It's Progress Report Time People!

Hi there love! How was your Monday? I spent most of the day painting the downstairs guestroom. It already looks soooooo much better! Lighter, brighter! I would totally share photos, but it's a stencil project, and what's the fun in sharing the first layer? We also started hanging the refinished cabinets up in the kitchen! I do however have some photos to share! After 40 days and 40 nights of rain in the NYC, I finally got some shots of the upstairs guestroom with some sun light. She's done!

When I say "done", I mean shes in a condition we don't dread, and we know some other stuff needs to be done, but we are happy for now. It's totally our POW room. Everything in the house is pretty neutral so far, and it's a pretty random room. See we had a pretty colorful apartment, and I had so much stuff from Etsy and Anthropologie, I just had to make a room to justify keeping some of those prized possessions.

I had some left over fabric from the closet curtains, so I whipped up a little pillow for the reading nook. The chair I grabbed from the garden room and the fan we found ages ago at Elephants Trunk. The chandy is from Urban Outfitters, maybe 4 years ago.

So we are crossing this off the good ol' list! It was awesome to do a room at no cost! The only thing we paid for was the lamp and $100 for the fabric. I am dedicated to getting the next guest room done twice as fast. If you are keeping track, here is where we are at:

1.) Finish the kitchen cabinets (oil polyurethane yellowed, now we need to redo with water based. we were warned).

2.) Finish the curtains in the guest room; I reordered the fabric! Should be here soon! + Finish styling

3.) Greywash fireplace in bedroom

4.) Greywash heater covers in bedroom

5.) *Bonus* Greywash whole closet in master bedroom.

6.) Patch water leak in dining room + paint entire dining room

7.) Patch water leak in foyer + paint entire foyer ceiling

8.) Paint/Stencil downstairs guestroom - 1/2 DONE!

9.) Patch wall in downstairs bathroom

10.) Move couch to Joey's office; two flights of stairs...ugh!

11.) Buy new dishwasher and have it installed

12.) Buy five (yes five!) fans and install

13.) Install backsplash in kitchen

14.) Install counters in kitchen

15.) Purge my closet, big time - Hello Goodwill!

16.) Install light outside we bought two years ago - I know, I know...

17.) Hang pillars in bedroom + finish that window wall

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I may be a little obsessed....

....with the guest room. Realize how all the photos are super dark? It's because I am taking pics at like 11pm, 1am, 3am....yep. Silly me. Well, I hope you are well lovelies! I have a bit of a progress report with the guest room. I have been working my booty off to get her finished and now I can actually see some movement, I feel good about it. 

I think my favorite moment in the room has got to be this suitcases, lamp and commissioned piece of Rocket VonScience an amazing friend got Joey and I for our wedding. 

This side of the room needs the most work. The art need to be properly framed and the media center turned ocassional table needs to be styled. See that lamp on the floor? We have plans for that. Last time you saw this side of the room it looked a whole lot different. 

That chandy is going on the ceiling above the chair I pulled from the garden room. I think the chair will live a happier life right where it is now. 

I horde etsy art. And when Renegade Craft Fair comes to town, I get a little shop happy. I was so excited to find a place to put some of the pieces. The mirror was from Target, on sale for $15! I painted with yellow spray paint. Love. 

I kinda messed up the floors with primer, spray paint, glaze, and regular paint. I need to sort this out pronto so I can lay the rug down. So where did I get everything and what's next? Glad you asked...

Where I shopped for the guest room:

Bedding:

• Duvet, Shams, and Large Pillow; Anthropologie on sale in NYC!
• Throw Blanket: Karma Living on Gilt

Fabric:

• Curtains and Closet Cover from Fabric.com

Closets:

• Built by Joey, Stained by Lana

Accessories:

• Lamp: Lamps Plus is LA!, Wish they had one in NY, it was a beast to get back!
• Suitcases: Vintage, I got a long time ago - one at Trailer Park in Brooklyn and the other I forgot. 
• Art: Etsy.com, Renegade Craft Fair, For Like Ever; I got here, gifts
• Media Center: West Elm, like 5 years ago. I painted it lighter with the glaze mixture I made up. 
• Bottles: Found; then painted with spray chalkboard paint
• Mirror: From target on sale for $15 then spray painted with Rust-o-eum Yellow
• Blue Garden Chair: Trailer Park in Park Slope, NY

What's Left:

• Clean the paint off the floor!/Throw down rug
• Hang Lamp
• Sew one more set of curtains
• Find and install fan
• Style media center/frame/hang art

I would also like to report that the cabinets in the kitchen Joey is working on look awesome!! He started hanging them up and the next step is to install the counter tops and put up the backsplash! We may just get everything on our 30 day list checked off!

New Hobby: Listchecker

Hey there pretty people! Yep! As soon as the list was written I got to work. This is what the guest room looks like this very moment:

I finished sewing the curtains for the closets, and now I just need to add a little trim work to the tops, see the big 'ol gaps? I hung them both with tension rods. I also grey washed both of the closets to match better with the grey trim in the room.

I completed one panel of curtains, and have three more to go. This one took a while because I decided to line it with new fabric I was waiting on. It's getting chilly! Gotta save that $ wherever we can. Also, sewing pom pom's....it's a chore! But don't they look cute?

As you can see from my 30 Days to rental ready list, #3, #4, and #5 involve grey washing a "Restoration Hardware" like finish on some items in our home. I wanted to test out what I have read online on a raw piece of furniture before I hit the big boy stuff. Here is a closer look of the closets washed grey:

If you dig the grey wash as much as we do here is what you do:

The Restoration Hardware Grey wash Look

1 part glaze

2 part grey paint (we used Martha Stewart's Winters Day)

Mix well in a plastic container.

Paint on wood with the intention of getting the paint on the wood, like in the corners and evenly across.

Use an old T-shirt or painters rags and rub is into the wood so you don't see any brush strokes.

Let dry.

 

So, I can't reaaaaaaaaaallllly check anything off the list because I have more curtains to sew and the grey washing of the closets were not on the list, but at least now I know it works! And to be bold, and go someplace where most bloggers don't, I will share the other side of the room. 

Lots 'o stuffs to deal with. But I am so excited to feel the pressure of having to get it all done. Am I nutso? Have a wonderful and productive weekend!