Its the fact that everything is good, no seriously each and every person can have their on taste and you are not judged. You have your own boards and your own styles and its ok to like what "you" want to like. I have had this really neat thing to happen to me in the last 6 to 8mths. I have found myself. Like when I say found myself, I mean that I have never really had a specific taste. My mom is a great homemaker, my mother-in-law has good taste too. Lots of people in my family do also. But it always seems like I have just been lost in the middle. I would like things that one would do and mix it with something else that I would see at one of the other houses. I never really said, "Oh this is the style I like and I"m going with it!" Part of it is because I haven't really focused on it because I have been tending to 4 growing children for 13 years and the focus has for sure been 100 percent on them and not on the mama.
So anyways, I feel like after taking much time and looking though my boards and also watching the show "Fixer Upper" I have finally found a style and taste that I love! So one room at a time I have been changing it to make it match how I would like it look. The only downer to this process is that I'm not rich like they are on the show so I have to do it with hammy down stuff or look on pinterest to try and find a cheaper way of doing things. A couple of weeks back I had a blog entry on my distressed wall with old boards that my dad had from a box that come off the farm. Today the wall that I'm writing about I didn't have any old boards so I went to Lowes hardware and had them to cut me some boards out of some white plywood. It was around 35.00 for a 4X8 sheet. I had to have 2 boards. This was my only expense in this project because I was gonna use all the other stuff I had from previous projects to complete it.
I wish I had taken a picture of all the boards I had gotten at Lowes. The 4X8 sheet made a lot of boards because I told the guy that run the saw at Lowes that I wanted them cut 4" wide. The first 3 cuts where free then the rest of the cuts are .25 each. It wasn't very much and the boards are straight and even. My wall was just a little under 4 feet wide so I only had to cut off a couple inches off each board.
Tools I used:
circular saw
nail gun with air compressor
Vaseline
small Dremel tool (round sander on the end)
grey stain
white flat paint
level
level
First board, use a stud finder to make sure you have the nails with the nail gun in the right place. Once I found them I drew straight lines up the wall so I would know where they are every time.
Next Use a Level to make sure your boards are level before laying the rest of the boards. I only had to do this once.
I checked both ends, and the middle.
Of course I always have helpers when I'm working.
This is to show how I used a jig saw and cut out the squares for the electric sockets.
This was the hard part for me because I'm not a carpenter by any stretch. It was getting around the steps. I cut out a small square with the circular saw, then used a Dremel tool with a round sander on the end to make it smooth. This took me awhile because I had never done it before.
Another thing I didn't figure for was the fancy crown molding at the top. Oh my Word, Can you say pain in the neck!!!! It took for ever using that small sanding tool to make it all go together. But I was very proud of how it finished. ***Key Point I didn't think about that at the top when I started my project. So make sure you look at your wall before you start something like this to make sure you can maneuver around what ever you have on that wall.
Once I finished the wall, I did the same method I did here. (that tells about the stain, Vaseline method for the distressed look to come through. Once you do that, you paint over with flat white paint. I used 2 coats.
You lightly sand in the areas you want the distressed look to appear.
So this is the finished project! I had a old lantern that I took the oil part out of a used a battery light to put on the inside. I purchased the large metal K at "of course" Hobby Lobby.
This is a up close because the long picture you really loose how pretty the distressed part is. Its hard to tell from the bottom pictures.
This is with little light on in the lantern.
This is with the light on.
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