Since the day we moved in I have HATED this garage door. It just made our house look so boring. I have always wanted a garage door that has windows and all of the cute details that adds charm and curb appeal to a house. However those charming carriage garage doors cost some major money and replacing a garage door that works just to buy one that looks pretty seems like a pretty big waste to me. I read about painting fake windows on this blog and decided that I had to try it. After all, it's only paint.  http://foreverdecorating.blogspot.com/2011/04/carrige-house-look-garage-doors.html Before I read her post I had never noticed that garage door windows always look black. So they are really easy to fake. Her garage doors were already small rectangular panels which lead easily to small square "windows." My garage door is just 4 flat boards which meant a LOT of measuring but it gave me the flexibility to choose whatever design I wanted. Today was a beau...

    I can't speak for everyone else but we had a great day today. My prayers are with all of the families that did not fare as well as we did but fortunately we were able to keep our power and had no flooding. This time. Phew. The high winds keep us inside Princess Leia foolishly wanting to go outside and we got some much needed chores done.      First project: tackle the front hall closet. I don't have a "before" picture but it really didn't look much different except now it is organized. front hall closet Or you could get an easier to fit version like this: This set of shelves was horizontal in the closet and I took it out (not easy to do) and tried to put it vertical behind the front door.  It didn't really fit, so I tipped it back horizontal and it still didn't fit, so back into the closet it went. This time I kept it vertical and put tags on each of the bins. each bin has a tag I used a tag punch like this  that ...

About a year ago I was reading through the blogs that I follow and I saw this post about a Paint by Number wall: This is from the blog: http://www.designspongeonline.com: this fantastic wall makeover comes from scott and cheryl white in michigan. inspired by paint by number artwork, they decided to turn an ebay painting into their own custom wall mural. after their paint-by-number painting arrived from ebay, scott made a color transparency of it and borrowed a friend’s projector to trace it on the wall with pencil. scott and cheryl created a chart of all the colors, recreating their own numbering system. then after a trip to michael’s to pick up paints, scott and cheryl painted in their large-scale paint-by-numbers mural by hand over a period of eight months. the final results are stunning and i’m so glad scott and cheryl had the inspiration to create something so fun on their walls. well done, guys! Read more at Design*Sponge  http://www.designspongeonlin...