Exterior Face Lift

The latest project in the Walker household has been trying to give our house a little face lift.  MUCH needed if you ask me.  I'm not loving the pinkish trim and can't wait to paint it!!!  Seriously though, it has to be the one rainy week this summer that we decided to get started.  So maybe next week we can start again. Here are some pictures from Sunday's work:

Not sure what he's looking at but thought he looked pretty cute in the pix - Super serious. You can see we are having to replace a bunch of trim and a few panels. 

Yep, D had to hang out on the top of the house to get the siding off.  I'm sure that's totally safe, right?

There we go.  Luckily we got this all replaced before it decided to pour Sunday night. 

Oh, and did I mention that I ripped up our dining room carpet since I wasn't much help outside.  I'm using a Dremel tool to cut off the nails that were put into the cement.  It was pretty fun!  I'm planning on pulling up all the carpet in our living room and possibly painting the floor until we can afford some nice hardwood. 

Now just waiting for everything to stay dry so we can keep working.
Love B. 

Project - Canvas

When my parents moved down to Austin, so came all of our 'crap' that we had stored at their house.  Now that I have a house, I figured I should relieve them of their storage duties.  My brother had this huge canvas that he didn't want anymore and offered for me to place it on my fireplace mantle.  Browsing through numerous blogs, I remember seeing this design, and I knew it would be perfect on my own fireplace. 

Luckily, I had all the grey paint, tape and Killz for the project.  The only thing I really had to make was a stencil for the design.  I basically took an 8.5x11 piece of card stock and cut it in half length wise.  I taped them together in an over lapping pattern, and I was set to go. 

{Step One} Killz the entire canvas - three times.  Yes, my brother had some interesting colors on there before hand

{Step Two} Trace out the pattern with a pencil

{Step Three} Tape over the lines - showing the ones that I would paint grey

{Step Four} Paint the grey stripes - two times

{Step Five} Possibly my favorite part - pulling off the tape.  How can you not love that beautiful line

{Step Six} Followed by my least favorite part of using a small brush with the white paint to fix any bleeds from the grey paint.

I love the results!!!  Thoughts?

Who is excited for St. Patty's day?  Make sure you wear your green! Love B