The Lounge...

...formerly known as our porch... being that everyone keeps asking "is it heated out there" I figure we should just call it something other than the porch from now on.

It's new purpose is a bar/lounge, so I'm going to test the waters calling it "The Lounge".

A quick photo journey of it's many stages:

Gross Brown and Cream when we first moved in

I painted the walls Purple first

with plans to change the ceiling and trim to bright White

Just priming the ceiling changed the entire feel of the room

White ceiling

Trim finally white

Then we decided to rip apart the ceiling; see those photos in this post.  All my hard work painting that ceiling... just ripped apart.

We have a couple different lighting options out there now:

Center light with a soft white temperature 

4 corner lights with Amber temperature (more of a mood lighting)

nicely lit room with all lights on

The finished product!

What's really cool is that all of the fixture 'globes' have matching patterns.  About 90% of the globes in our home have this same matching pattern.  I think that's pretty neat.
Here's a close up:

That's all folks!

~Cheers~
Ang

Porch Project 2017-2018

Yo Loyal Fans... how I've missed you all!

Remember back in 2016 when I posted about a Patio Project Steve and I had started?  and then in early 2017, I shared a finished photo of that same patio?

Well... if you notice in those photos, there is no light on the front of our house (off the 4 season porch), which means on these dark fall nights I sit in the dark... not really all that cool.  So the next order of business after the completion was to put a light out there.  Well, as it turns out our home was built in 1923 and the wiring isn't as straight forward as any other house.  I won't pretend to know anything about electrical work, but something about needing a ground wire from somewhere.. so the electrician says we might be able to pull one from the center light in the porch... the ceiling of the porch looks like this:

so... both Steve and I being willing to get rid of that ceiling and upper wall, decided to rip it out and see if we can run the ground wire from there.

Here's the process of that... (PSA: demo day on Fixer Upper looks way more fun than it is):

Cool.. that only took a few weeks - turns out a full time job takes up a lot of free time for such projects.  Steve has this idea to add some lights out there but then wait... and even better idea...  let's build a coffered ceiling, so he has to figure out where these new lights need to go and get boxes hung... cool. 

He gets that done and we call the electrician out to wire it all up, next thing I know, we have a damn light on the front of our house, just in time for Halloween 2017:

Next things next... insulation; the people we hire are a few weeks out.. so we wait.  This is complete the end of November 2017:

spray foam insulation

Next step: hang Sheetrock

Cool beans, right?

Now comes the hard part; our 1923 home is not square nor is it level... so we lay out a grid for the boxes:

Then Steve has to get to thinking... and I'll just leave you with the building of the boxes in photo form - from base blocks to complete with antique ceiling tiles and crown molding:

There is so much detail that you can't even imaging, including but not limited to filling nail holes and sanding them and caulking all the gaps...

So this past weekend we got everything primed to be painted (we'll be painting everything white to match the window trim):

We're working our asses off this week so we can have this room open for the weekend and for Halloween 2018 next week... but I tell ya what... I'm sore.  My neck, my back, my shoulders, my arms.  Holy Hannah.  It's been a long process, and I'd never go out of my way to build a fancy ceiling again, but I gotta say... it looks amazing and I'm so proud of my husband for building this!

I'll post some final photos once it's done, hopefully after the weekend!

~Cheers~
Ang