So here's a simple update that might not even require words to this post. Haha.. But this is not a photo blog so a few sentences wouldn't hurt. Since we're renting out an old apartment for the showroom, we're not afraid to experiment and paint the hell out of it. Even the stair riser. We wanted a little pop of color on that side of the room so here's my solution....
BEFORE
AFTER
The design supposed to cover the entire span of the riser, but its too darn tedious covering the corners and all so I ended up just doing a zigzag in the middle. Haha...
There you have it, out painted riser. Simple update, but it makes me smile every time I go up.
:)
Last night's agenda was to clean and organize our office. I thought it would take me two hours max, but between the organizing and freecell games, it took me four instead. Yes I'm addicted to freecell solitaire, that is my go-to break time game. Haha....
Here is the somewhat cleaner office as of date...
Haha! That is the clean version. Imagine piles and piles of stuff on the table and all over the floors. Add dust to that pile and you'll have a non-stop sneezing machine -me. But it's getting closer and closet to our moodboard...
Most element are already there: table, his and hers chair, DIY hanging light, green bookcase, gold rocker and bar cart, wood floors, and black and white walls. Next on the list is accessorizing! I really want to see lots of art hanging on our wall.
Here's the bookshelf, or can we say zoo?
It became the dumping ground for all our knick-knacks which, as it turned out, were lots and lots of animals.
Tried to organize them a bit, but this shelf is far from done. More books and less stuff would be ideal, but this would do for now....
The hanging light was DIYed by the bf. He made it out of scrap metals and fruit crates.
It turned out so beautiful. I love it. And I love him. Eeeeehhheee....
Again, another creation from the bf, this scrap metal deer head, and faux antique keys. Expect lots of his creations from DuoDeco Studio. :)
This office still needs a lot of love, and most importantly, internet connection. Ha! But I'm just happy we're halfway there.
See? :)
Afraid of color? Try this. A collage of black and white photos plastered on an entire wall to achieve a very dramatic and graphic look sans colors. A sophisticated version of the all too popular i-will-decorate-my-dorm-by-filling-walls-with-posters look. Haha
It's been a looooong time since I last did a DIY. 8 months long to be exact. The last DIY was this stool and side table I spray painted gold. I'm not even sure if you can consider it that since it's just spray paint after all. This project we did was from from it! It took us 15 hours of work, haha!
It all started from my ambitious plan of painting a pattern to the floors. Remember the moodboard I did for the showroom? Since we wanted everything to be within budget, we don't want to replace the floors, but the ancient vinyl installed won't do it. So paint it is! We had the floors painted white.
I did a sketch of the pattern. Since a 12x12 vinyl was the former flooring, it already has a grid. I made the pattern based on the grid so we won't have to do any measuring.
This is probably the most tedious of all... taping! We used around 14 rolls of masking tape. Most of the masking tape we bought won't adhere properly to the floors, I cursed the tape numerous of times. It did help a bit. Haha
We cut excess tape to prep for the paint. Here's the floor all taped up.
Almost done with the painting!
But before the final reveal, here's another side story. You see, we wore socks the entire time we walked on the newly painted white floors since it doesn't have any top coat yet. But as clumsy/careless as we are, one of each our sock got into a little black paint accident. Which lead us into resorting to this....
A plastic, and paper bag slash sock. Wala lang.. hahaha
Here we are before removing the tape. Souvenir of our little incident and this whole shenanigan.
Let me just remind you on how we started the moment we first saw the place...
And now here it is with the painted floors, courtesy of me and the bf. :)
The almost done kitchen sans the teal fridge and yellow stove. That story is for another post.
Top view.
Don't be fooled by this photos, the floors isn't perfect, there's a lot of paint bleed and crooked lines since the old vinyl has a lot of chips and cracks, but we love it nonetheless. Though after putting a polyurethane top coat to protect the floors, they are now yellowish. Of course I love white better than yellow, but I'd rather have a yellowish floors than a very dirty hard to clean white one. Sabi nga ni bf... "Kunwari na lang vintage..." haha
There you have it, one step closer to our finish showroom. :)
