Round Ottoman

Ottoman Before...a little too formal for my client

Ottoman After

Close up of fabric.

First of all I LOVE round ottomans. This one turned out super cute with the small print fabric, and box pleat skirt all the way around the base. I wish I could've seen it in the room that it went in. My client lives out of state and dropped off the ottoman at her mom's in SLC, for me to pick it up.

Upholstered Rocker

So this is the second time I've done this chair...I did it for a nursery about 2 years ago, and now my client had me redo it for her teenage daughters room. Her daughter was so excited when I called to let her mom know it was done.

Rocker before

Rocker after in a darling red damask

I love that with slipcovers you can reuse and repurpose your furniture. When I dropped it off to my client she said she'd probably call me again in two years when she needs to change it again.

Loveseat and wingback chair redo

I loved the way this loveseat turned out. I loved the boxpleat skirt all the way around the bottom. I love the details that show off a solid color fabric.

Before loveseat

After Loveseat

After

Chair Before

Chair After

After close up

After close up


I loved the legs on this chair...especially with the casters. This client loves to shop off KSL.com (local like craigslist) and have me slipcover her finds. She found this chair on KSL.

Darling Grandma Chairs

I have done several items for this client over the years and ever since the first time I went to her home, I eyed these two petite chairs. I loved the lines and small frame of them. They were her grandmas and have been reupholstered three times. She loved the shape, but just wanted to update them a little bit.


Before

After

More White Slipcovers

Before plaid hand me down couches
Before chair
After white couches



After white chair

My client decided to have these plaid beauties made over into white denim, so that she could switch out her pillows with the seasons. I loved the way it updated the room. I was able to drop these off the day before she was supposed to be induced with her 4th baby. Nothing like nesting up to the end right? She got her fabric at Home Fabrics in SLC for $3.99/ yd.

June vacations and craziness

So at the very beginning of the month we took the kids and a bunch of our neighbors to Carlsbad state beach. We camped out for 5 nights. We boogie boarded, collected shells, ate good food, visited the tide pools in San Diego, and enjoyed our one sunny day. You know they call it "June gloom" for a reason right? It was overcast 4 out of the five days, but that didn't stop anyone from swimming.
Here is me with my two oldest boys.
Here Iam with my husband, Heber.
Here we are at the tide pools, where I spent most of my time taking the kids to the potty 1/2 a mile away. I think I was only at the tide pools about 15 minutes.



After Carlsbad...Heber drove me to meet up with my sisters, for a sisters weekend in Manhattan Beach, Ca. He then drove home to Utah with the three boys all by himself for 12 hours. What a trooper!!!


So we stayed at the cutest hotel called the "Belamar" in Manhattan Beach. They had complimentary beach cruiser bikes you could use to ride to the beach (1.5 miles). On the way we stopped at a few yard sales and bought way too much and had to come back with our car to pick up a HUGE mirror and bulletin board...lets just say the trunk wouldn't close, so we drove around the rest of the weekend with our trunk flapping in the wind. We did buy rope and the bell hop helped us tie it down for our 10 hour drive home to Utah. The hotel also had a complimentary yoga class and ding dongs. It was decorated with a fun 50's modern vibe with lots of fun fabrics. If you ever need a place to stay... I highly recommend the Belamar Hotel. I love sisters, because as much as our husbands love us...they would never let us buy stuff that wouldn't fit in the trunk.


Here is three of us at a yard sale...we got some screaming deals, I got fabric of course and a huge bulletin board for $10.
Here is all four of us getting breakfast down at Starbucks by the pier.


Here is me and my sister Angie...two of my sisters are photographers and the other one is a massage therapist. We had lots of fun shopping, eating out, joking around with the bellhops, swimming, and swiping ding dongs from the front desk.
Then 4 days after I got home, Heber and I ran the Wasatch Back relay race. It's 188 miles from Logan to Park City, UT with 12 people on your team. You run 3 times each, so total I ran 18.4 miles with 3 hours of sleep in the middle of the night. Our team finished in 31 hours and 20 minutes. Heber is wearing my running partners sunglasses to be funny. Gosh I love that man.


Now I am back home and trying to get caught up on work and manage the crazy summer schedule with all the kids. You know kids running in and out all day long with water guns and sand on their feet wanting you to fill up water balloons and make them food every other hour. We are also finishing up baseball games and since we had so many games cancelled because of rain, all the makeup games are this week. SO 6 games this week between the three boys.

Painting @cabin finished!!

So yesterday...we got to go back up to the cabin and put it back together since it was done getting painted. I was so excited to put all my slipcovers back on and Heber was going to finish up getting the trim on the windows and baseboards back up. We also got two more sets of curtains hung in the family room.

I love the paint on the walls!!! We left the ceiling and trim and doors and baseboards dark wood, and I am so glad I chose this option I love it. It helps it feel a little more cabiny than cottage with the wood paneling on the ceiling. You know it's all about comprimise, I have a turquoise sectional and flowered pillows up there, I gotta give the man something.

So you know how men don't get as excited as us women when it comes to before and afters...when I asked Heber if he thought it looked good, all I got was "It's fine, I didn't really think it need to be painted in the first place...and now it smells different when you walk in" HMMM maybe it smells like fresh paint and not rustic wood smell. Which is starting to come back since he cut a ton of new wood for the fireplace. I have to admit I loved that rustic smell too when I walked in. I love that man for doing all that work for me, when he didn't really think it needed to be done.

Dining room
Family room
Bunkroom
parson chair in yellow polka dot with knife pleat skirt
Loft

New windows and painted wood paneling @ the cabin

So this last weekend my dad came and helped up put in three 48"x48" windows on the main level of the cabin which replaced three 24"x24" windows. I can't tell you the difference in light and how much it opened it up. I was literally jumping up and down when they popped out the first opening for the first window. I found the windows on KSL.com (like craigslist) for $40 each, and they had never been installed. When I priced them at Lowes they were $120 each. So with the price of the windows and the lumber, trim, calking etc. it cost $250 total to replace the windows/trim and baseboards. TOTALLY worth it!!


before with small windows on the deck
after with big windows...you can see the small window that we took out sitting on the ground in between the two windows. This was a very happy day for me. The inside is now so light, and not just a dark whole with cute furniture. I love that you can actually see the view now. You can see all the trees and everything. I fall more and more in love with this little cabin with every project that we finish.


Here is a pic of the view from the deck. My nephew Seth also came up to help on the windows and hangout with grandpa and my sisters.



Here is a pic of the opening that was cut for the window...that's my handsome hubby, Heber looking excited to be doing all the work with my dad.


That's my dad skill sawing out the opening with saw dust flying everywhere. My dad came up from California to visit for a few days, so I talked him into helping us with one of our projects. My dad loves having a project. He built almost all of our houses growing up. It was fun to show him the cabin and get his ideas. One of his ideas that I liked was to remove the outside staircase and build the steps into the grade of the slope with railroad ties, then you would enter from the back of the deck. Heber doesn't want to talk about any more projects though.



Here's a pic from the inside after we took off the paneling to frame out for the window. Good thing men know what they are doing. That's my dad.


Then Heber had to hurry and get all the paneling back up on the inside of the cabin, so that my friend Becky could come help paint the paneling. I decided to leave the ceiling and vaulted parts wood as well as the trim around the windows and baseboards. I debated what to do, which would make the biggest impact and not be an insane amount of work. After I saw a post on http://frugalfarmhousedesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/beach-cottage-living-room-before-after.html I finally got my inspiration. I don't have it all put back together yet, but I was so excited to show you the progress, so I'll post some more after pics when the trim and slipcovers are back on.




Here is a before pic that I found of the kitchen.


Here is the after (well the baseboards aren't back on yet) with the walls painted.


another after of the kitchen


here is a way before pic of coming down from the loft into the family room. This was before Heber removed the two small walls and the header at the bottom, and put in bigger windows. Oh and the light fixture got switched out too.

Here is the painting in progress of the family room. I can't wait to get all the furniture put back together, and the curtains hung. The curtain hanging might take some serious persuasion on my end to get Heber to help. His least favorite things are hanging curtains and shelves.

Cabin--- bathroom floor

Logan helping with the wood putty process, he thought it was fun for about 5 minutes, and then decided chopping down a tree outside with a hatchet was more fun then helping mom.

after the stain was applied...see how great it matches at the threshold of the door.

I brought up a footstool for Carter to paint, I bought it off KSL.com for $3. He got bored halfway through too, and went out to help Logan chop down the small dead tree.

So...the cabin has amazing wood floors throughout, except the bathroom (I thought). They had a subfloor nailed on top of them and then nasty disingreating peel and stick tiles on top of that. I started tearing up the tiles, so that we could lay REAL tile. Just as I was finishing that nasty job, I asked my husband if the wood floors continued under the subfloor, because I couldn't see where they ended. He said "probably". So then I started tearing up the subfloor and there they were...a little rough, but they were there.

Just a side note...this discovery of the wood was after we spent $200 on tile and hauled it all up to the cabin in a sled behind the 4 wheeler and carried them up the steep driveway and 26 steps.

My husband still thought we should tile...because refinishing the wood floors would be alot of work...so I told him, "Well I'll do it then". For the record he DID let me do it ALL by MYSELF. But I guess I also let him haul all the tile back down on the sled by himself.

First I had to wood putty all the cracks, I talked Logan into helping for part of that. I had to do it twice, because when it dried it shrunk and some of the cracks were 1/4" thick.

Second I had to sand FOREVER...my mom let me borrow a belt sander that took all my strength to keep it from getting away from me. My whole body was sore the next day.

Third I had to apply a wood conditioner, so the stain would apply evenly.

Fourth I had to stain the wood (that was easy and fast). I actually got it to match the original color outside the door pretty well.

Fifth I had to apply 3 coats of floor grade polyeurethene... that required 3-6 hours of drying time in between each coat.

Finally now the floors are done!!! Now we can set the toilet and take off the rest of the nasty wood paneling on the walls. We are going to put up beadboard.

Heber is up there today clearing away more brush, and might start diggging up the water line so we can fix it and get the water on. My dad is coming up this week to help replace 3 windows on the main level to 48"x48" windows instead of the small 24"x24" windows that let in hardly any light and you can't see any of the fabulous view.

Oh yesterday we got to drive ALL the way up to the cabin, the snow has finally melted off the road and driveway. This is the first time we have had access since January when we got stuck and had to dig the car out for 2.5 hrs with the kids.