Dining room- BEFORE– we removed the fan and replaced it with a chandelier, painted all the walls cream. I left the ceiling wood.

Dining room- AFTER —hung some curtains, slipcovered some parson chairs, and talked my sister into letting me have this turquoise table.

Kitchen- BEFORE– we removed the wagon wheel chandelier and the make shift counter on the right of the pic.

Kitchen- BEFORE– we also removed the wall between the kitchen and dining room (where the paneling changes colors)

 

Kitchen- AFTER– we also replaced the counter top with butcher block from IKEA. We also installed a used cast iron sink and a new goose neck faucet.

Kitchen- AFTER

Kitchen- AFTER

Kitchen–AFTER- We also bought an apartment sized fridge and stove (20″ wide) and found a cabinet that fit just right in between them.

Family room- BEFORE— notice the cubby room at the bottom—we took out those two walls and the drop down header thing to make it one large (well larger) space.

Family room- AFTER— See the new large windows! They let in so much more light! I hung curtains, slipcovered a sectional and some club chairs and an ottoman. I also painted a mirror that my mom gave me. We also replaced the light fixture with a silver chandelier.

Family room- AFTER— the floors were beautiful through out and we didn’t have to do anything to them. HARDWOOD laid on the diagonal (or bias…as a seamstress would say).

Loft–BEFORE— notice the railing this is for the overlook, which we removed and covered over to aquire more square footage. The steps were a little random and lead out the window to the upper deck. We also removed the old light fixture and shutters off the window. The door at the end of  the pic is the bunkroom.

Loft- AFTER– painted walls and left the trim and ceiling wood and hung curtains. Of course I made new pillows and bedding and painted some thrift store end tables and bought some new lamps at TJMAXX.

Loft- AFTER

Bunkroom–AFTER —

Stairs to loft—they were turquoise originally and we left them alone….these were a huge selling point for me…. they were turquoise, what else can I say?

Dining room–AFTER

Bathroom Floor- BEFORE — I pulled off the peel and stick pebble looking tiles, and then I ripped off the subfloor to find raw hard wood underneath, that was laid on the diagonal like the rest of the main floor.

Bathroom Floors- AFTER—- I puttied, sanded, conditioned, stained and polyeurethened….and they ended up matching great at the threshhold!

Bathroom- BEFORE–see the nasty peel and stick pebble looking tiles?

Bathrom–AFTER — got a new vanity, toilet and put up beadboard. Ipainted the walls cream and the ceiling turquoise and all the trim is dark wood. I don’t have all the pics….darn it! We also ditched the old medicine cabinet and hung a chandelier.

Bathroom— AFTER—turquoise beadboard ceiling and cream breadboard walls with dark wood trim. Silver chandelier and turquoise chevron shower curtain.

Book shelf that I had Heber hang above the toilet for extra storage.

NEW WINDOWS— My dad came and helped us replace the tiny windows for new 48″x48″ windows. You can see the old window leaning between the two new windows. We replace three windows on the main level. One in the dining room and two in the family room.

AFTER— I slipcovered a loveseat and ottoman for the loft. They sit exactly where the overlook was. This is Carters spot….he loves to sleep on this loveseat.

OUTSIDE— AFTER— I painted the trim green. I wanted it to pop off the dark wood paneling. We also reroofed the cabin..it was the original roof which was from 1978. The boys helped a ton as well as Hebers brother and our friend Jared.

Driving up the driveway the first time we came to look at the cabin…it looked like a tree house perched up on stilts. My first impression heading up the driveway was that we had just wasted an hour driving up here. It needed ALOT of work.

Cabin in the fall— we have a steep driveway that works well for a tubing run in the winter.

Deck– BEFORE—- My dad came and helped demo the dry rot deck. There were about 3 layers of TI-81 paneling stacked up on eachother. Underneath there was massive dry rot— since there wasn’t proper drainage

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I did a pair of these chairs for a designer client….she asked for no piping except on the cushion and a waterfall skirt.

In all my 11 yrs of slipcovering, I have not yet done a waterfall skirt. I have thought about them and envisioned doing them, and have layed in bed figuring out how to make them work. So it was exciting to finally do one, and it worked out like it did in my head. YEA!

Chair before…

Chair— After….I actuallly liked the look of no piping on this one. Kind of gave it a different feel.

Front of the arm- I angles the front skirt piece to cover over the front edge of the arm, so the front skirt piece would be all one piece.

I guess I should explain what a waterfall skirt is….it’s when the skirt isn’t attatched separately.  The skirt is part of the main body. Normally the skirt is attatched to the main body with piping sewn in between.

I tacked the top of the pleat of the skirt for added durability.

I really liked the casualness of this chair. The fabric was a textured chunky woven cream cotton. LOVED IT!

This chair was for my clients nursery. She chose a peach/cream stripe. She wanted to make it a little more modern and interesting, so we ran the stripes across on the skirt and on the front of the arms.

At first we thought we’d do them across on the skirt and on the bands of the cushions, but I thought it would be better to do the front of the arms instead. That way the stripes weren’t broken up going down the front of the chair. I thought it might be too distracting to the eye.

Chair—BEFORE

Chair—AFTER

Close up of the front of the arm.

I also decided to move the pleat from the front corner to the side…