Hall Make-over Before and After

I have been working on my hall for the last couple of weeks. I'm glad to be able to post my before and after pictures today.
This is my after picture. We replaced our 1 tiny light with 2 new canned lights. We also added, bead board, trim, paint (walls- Hopsack, ceiling- Latte, bead board-white), crown molding, floor mat(I painted with left over wall paint) photos and accent pieces.

Down came the ugly popcorn ceiling. We replaced the Home Interior from the early 90's with snap shots I have taken over the years of my kids.

BEFORE

Here we have the before picture. As you can see we totally made over this room. .Click here to see all post from start to finish.

Nothing went untouched, from putting bead board on the walls and ceiling to a new mat on the floor.

The pictures added so much for little cost. I purchased the frames at Hobby Lobby for half price. I think at half off they were $8.00 for a 14" x 18" frame. The black and white pictures I had made at Wal-mart, they were $4.97 for a 8" x 10" picture. Each picture I have under $15.00.
Everything on this wall came from Hobby Lobby, also half priced, or I already had it. The things I already owned got a coat of black spray paint. The "C" for our last name was gold. It also got a coat of black paint. I love it now.

This is the new floor mat I made. I cut a piece of linoleum, bought at Home Depot for $20.00 for a 6' x8' square. I painted the back side with left over wall paint and as you can see, it matches my hall perfectly. I added a black border to tie in the black picture frames.

I hope you enjoyed my before and after pictures. Thanks for stopping by my blog and please leave a comment letting me know you were here.

Click on the butterfly to the right and it will take you to "Between Naps on the Porch" she is hosting Metamorphosis Monday and has a list of more before and after pictures

A day of shopping

Yesterday I came home with a car load of goodies. My friend Cindy and I went to town to get things for my new hall. I wanted to do all black and white. It was so much fun shopping. And it was even better since Cindy was there to help me. When it comes to things like this, she is the person to take with you. She has a way with picking out and displaying things. We bought frames, mirrors, shelves, letters, finials etc.
All photos for the hall I had printed in black and white. Here's Cindy framing them.
I had things that were not black, so out came the spray paint. This is a little mirror I had that was framed in a wood frame, now it is black. I must say, I like it so much more black.
And of course I have to have some of these in the hall. I think I have them in every room. I don't have any in black, so the can of spray paint gave them a new paint job too. Nothing in this house was safe from the paint.

Check back Monday morning. I'm posting it on "Taking Naps on the Porch's" Metamorphosis Monday

Floor Mat Part 2

Yesterday I had all of my dark beige painted. I let it dry for several hours and now I'm painting the light beige. A couple of people wanted to know what kind of paint I use. This is the beauty of this project. I use my left over wall paint. This way the floor mat will match my walls perfectly. The dark beige is the "Hopsack" on the upper part of my wall. The light beige is "Latte" that is on my ceiling. Remember yesterday when I said to paint the first coat the same color as the square next to it? You can see in this picture I painted this square dark beige, when it drys, I'll paint the square light beige.
Here's a close up. A lot of work, but so worth it. If you have ever had to go back and touch up lines, you will not mind the extra work.
Here it is done, look how sharp my lines are. I'm even a little amazed at how crisp they turned out. Yesterday while I was painting the guy doing my hall told me another trick. If you take caulking and rub a little on the seam of the tape, it keeps the paint from bleeding underneath also.
Here it is done!!!! Well, I still have to put a couple coats of NON-YELLOWING polyurethane on it, but this is the way it will look. Like I said above, the dark beige is my wall color, the light beige is the ceiling color. I'm doing black and white pictures in my hall so I thought the black stripe and the black circles would tie in with the frames.
Here's another tip, to get your circles nice. This is an easy way to do it. Take painters tape and stick it to some paper and use a hole punch and punch out a circle. The tape has to be stuck to paper first or the punch tears it up. Then just peel the tape off and stick to your project.

If anyone decides to make a mat, please let me see pictures.

Floor Mat Part 1

Yesterday I started on my new floor mat for the hall. I found a piece of linoleum at Home Depot. Doesn't matter what the front looks like, it can be ugly, you won't see it. I try to find something with lines or squares, I use that as my guide when cutting, and this stuff cuts super easy. The piece I found was a 6' x8' piece for $21.00. The first thing I did was cut it to the size I wanted. Now prime the back of the linoleum. Next I measured out my design. I can't draw, so I have to use shapes that I can measure.
Next I use painters tape and tape around the edges I'm going to paint.
Then I start painting. And this step is very important. For my first coat of paint, I paint it the color of the square that is next to it. This way if anything bleeds under the tape, you won't know it because it is the same color. After the first coat has dried I then paint the color I want the square to be. See how sharp my lines are? This is because my first coat of paint sealed the tape.
When the painted is good and dry, move on to the rest of the squares. This takes FOREVER!
Now all of my darker beige is done. At this point I have about 4 hours in this mat. I have to stop now because I used all of my painters tape. I will let this dry a day or so before I tape the squares next to it. Now I'm off to the store to get some more painters tape, I'll try to update later.

Hall Redo

I hope you are not getting bored reading about my hall. The thing is, that is the only thing that has been going on in my life for the last week. It is coming to an end though, I think I'm going to show the finished project Monday the 19Th during Taking Naps on the front Porches' Metamorphosis Monday. Be sure and check back.

You can see here that we have crown molding. I love crown molding, before long, I want it in every room. We have one coat of Latte on the ceiling and one coat of Hopsack on the walls. After the nail holes are filled, we are painting and leaving it white.
This is our trim. Not really sure what it is called, it's too high to be a chair rail, so maybe a picture rail. The bead board is around 4' high so the trim is just slightly higher than 4'. If someone can fill me in, please do so.

Today everyone is motocross racing so I have no help. I think I'm going to start my new floor mat today. My mind is drawing a blank, not sure what pattern I want to do it.

Hall Redo

The bead board is up! The entire look of the hall has changed. As you can see in the picture not only did we put it on the wall, but the ceiling also. A couple of weeks ago From House To Cozy Home posted her dinning room ceiling. She had bead board on the ceiling and I really liked it. Click on the link and go take a look at her blog. We added new lights and I had the ugly popcorn ceiling, so this was the perfect solution. I don't know why I waited so long to do this. I'm loving the bead board. I have so many plans for it now.

Excuse my paint sample, I started out painting a small patch. I got a little carried away and my small sample turned in to half the wall. The color on the wall is Hopsack from Sherwin Williams. I had a couple of colors I tried, and I think I'm going with this one. Another color I really liked was Latte also from Sherwin Williams. It wasn't dark enough. It is on the same card as the Hopsack, so I think the Latte will go on the ceiling. Also on the same card is Kilim Beige, I'm thinking about this color for the bead board. Still undecided, I'm really liking the lower bead board white. I will have to try a sample and live with it a couple of days.

In this picture we have the wall painted with Hopsack and the ceiling is painted with the Latte. The bead board is left white.

Next on the list of things to do, trim. Can't wait for this part

We have lights! Hallway Redo

I guess I have been watching too much of Candice Olson of Divine Design on HGTV. The first thing she does on every show is add lighting. I couldn't do a hallway redo without adding the proper lighting. It looks amazing, I am so thrilled with the way it turned out.

Here is the before pic. As you can see, we had one tiny light. Now that we have new lights, the hallway is lit up like a Christmas tree. After seeing all the light we have, we must have been living in cave. Before when I would get something out of the hall closet, I couldn't see a thing. Now I can see everything, including the cobwebs. Yikes, maybe new lights weren't such a good thing.

Now I'm off to pick paint colors. Fun!

Hallway Redo

Yesterday I was spending way too much time on blog land daydreaming about my new hallway. I had to tear myself away from reading when my phone started ringing. I answered it and heard the 5 words every girl starting a home project wants to hear, "I will be there tomorrow".

This is my new project, the hallway. My original plan was to scrape the popcorn ceiling. After spending time looking at others' home redo projects, my "scrape the ceiling" quickly grew to include new lights, bead board, painting and crown molding.


Here are my Before Pictures. Say "Goodbye" to the early 90's Home Interior. At the end of the project, that will not be returning.