Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was painting a few of patched areas…
Category: Interior
Unifying with Circles
Carrying on from the last post and finally finished the super long tale of the redesigning “process” for the look…
Great Room “Note” — Outside Design Service
During our random discussions about what to do paint and furniture-wise in the great room, Agent Smith pointed me to…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Eight: Wall Lighting
Back when we had the main electric panel redone, we made the call to decommission the monument outlets in the…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Seven: Plants and Bits
Instead of random knick knacks (although we do have a few interesting items,) I always intended that the main ornaments…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Six: Finding Art
In addition to finding furniture for the great room, over the last two years we’ve managed to find interesting items…
Making the Great Room Great — Before and After Painting
Below are some before and after shots of the foyer and great room once the painters were done but before…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Four: Painting
As anyone who has painted a room (myself included) knows, prep work is what takes the most amount of time.…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Three: Priming
Once the drop cloths and sheets of plastic were taped into place the painters got busy. The four interior doors…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Two: Paint Prep
In mid-August of 2019 our regular house painter slotted some time to come up and paint the great room. There…
Making the Great Room Great — Step One: Deciding on Paint
Once the floors had been refinished and the chimney column in the center of the great room was stripped of…
More Furniture Finds
After buying the lovely table at Michaan’s I started visiting in person during their preview hours and thanks to a…
Blue Room Refresh: Part 2
Continuing on from Monday’s post, back in early February of 2019 we ordered a Murphy bed from murphybeds.com and it…
Lick the Cookie
One of bits of decor we’ve added to the house is a long (and growing longer) row of patent plaques…
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty-punny sort of title came to mind for this post.) Back in early 2019 I started scouring the…
Teaky Teak
Before the teak that runs through most of the main areas of the house could be refinished a lot, and…