[completed] sewing room paint job

Yesterday, Adam and I and a friend of his finished painting my sewing room. The lower portion of the walls are the same navy blue that they were originally, and the upper portion of the walls are from a $5 one-gallon mistint of Valspar's "Yachtsman". Adam was concerned that there wouldn't be enough paint, since we used a gallon and a half for our bedroom, but we had plenty. The high-hiding primer from Valspar did such an excellent job that we only need one coat and some second coat touchups of the wall color.

"Yachtsman" turned out to be more blue than I expected (the sample on top of the can looked gray), but it looks great with the navy and the white chair rail. I love it - it's such a calming color.

Today, Adam changed out all the painted-over outlets and light switch for me. The faceplates were nice already, but the outlets themselves needed to go. Thankfully I have a husband who is good with tools!

I also installed new curtain rods (with old curtains) all by myself, and I've started moving furniture and stuff into the room. I really need to stain my new desk and move it in there. That's on the to-do list for tomorrow!

[wip] painting my sewing room

before

For the past few days, I've been trying to find a time to paint the sewing room in the midst of all the unpacking. This morning, Adam recruited a friend of his to help us prime the Mizzou-colored walls. I decided to keep the navy blue below the chair rail, but repaint the (hideous) yellow-orange color above the rail.

after priming

To cover up that intense color, we used Valspar's high-hiding primer. It was pretty effective, as you can see. As soon as that coat is dried, we'll be painting the walls in a light gray paint that I bought as a mis-tint at Lowe's awhile ago. I love buying mistints - first because I love random things, and secondly because you can get great unexpected colors for cheap!

I can't wait to get this room all nice and repainted! Then I will be able to finally unpack both the sewing room (obviously), and the spare bedroom (where all the sewing room stuff is being stored). I won't be able to start/continue any sewing projects for awhile, though... I still need to stain and prime my new unfinished desk so I'll have a place to work. That project is definitely on the agenda for next week!

I start my new job (yay!) on the 10th of June, so I have about a week left to finish up around the house. Of course I know I won't/can't get everything done before then, but I am certainly going to try!

[completed] wooden knob belt and tie hanger

awesome

Yesterday, in the midst of cleaning and unpacking and organizing and hanging curtains, Adam and I completed a little organization project. I had seen wood and knob wall organizers around the internet, and when the over-the-door hook organizer I used in the old house didn't fit on our new (to us) doors, I decided to make a new wall hanging organizer.

Ages ago, I bought a bunch of drawer knobs from Michael's for $0.25 each, with no particular project in mind. This project seemed perfect from them. I bought a 2x3 piece of wood from Lowe's for around $5. I had to buy a fairly deep piece of lumber because the knobs had long screws. Adam drilled holes for me in the piece of wood, and I covered it in a few coats of Valspar's satin nickel spray-paint. After it dried (about an hour), we screwed in the knobs and attached sawtooth hangars to the back. I hung it on the wall, and voila! A new and pretty belt and tie wall organizer!

A quick, inexpensive, functional, and very satisfying project! That is one of the finishing touches on the bedroom - as soon as I hang a few more pictures, I'll share pictures of the room.

check out those star knobs!