Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Goodbye 1970's

Before
After

When we first saw our house, I loved it. It was unique and had a sort of old world cottage feel, but one of the first things out of my mouth was, "All this brassy gold has got to go!" It was very evident from our fixtures and door knobs that our house was built in the late 70's. Well, a year and a half later, the process has begun. We've replaced 3 outdated fixtures/ceiling fans and after hunting for the correct sized fireplace doors we discovered that our fireplace is a custom size. Since there is no way I'm going to sink that much money into a fireplace that we can't even use (a whole story in itself), Alan educated himself on painting it and wha-la...looks like a different house. You have to use a high heat safe paint which pretty much limits you to black but that's okay, we have a lot of black accents in the living room. I was kind-of disappointed with the picture.  It doesn't do the fireplace justice because it really looks good. Of course, now some my decorations don't look so good but I was already thinking about replacing them with something more up to date. So once again the lesson of the day: A little elbow grease and ingenuity sure can save you a bundle. Two more fixtures downstairs, a door handle, and then to the upstairs (of course that may be in another year and a half :)

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