We've been living with ugly brass lighting fixtures, door knobs and hinges for way too long! I told Brad it was time to get rid of the ugly and bring our house up-to-date!
I love trying to do things ourselves. Not only does it save you a lot of money but it's a great way to learn how to maintain your house and there's just something cool about being able to change a light fixture on your own!
I've had this weird burst of energy of the past weeks and I've been DIYing just about everything! Maybe it's just spring in the air but I want to get this stuff done NOW!
Here's what I've tackled in the past few weeks
- Change out ugly white and gold fan in our master bedroom (project took Brad and I over 5 hours!)
- Did a mini-makeover in our master bedroom which included painting the ugly cabinets to a nice dark brown, painting the walls, changing the light fixture, changing out the faucet and hanging a new mirror. It's amazing what a difference a little paint can do!
- Changed out all the outside light fixtures (the neighbors were looking at me like I was crazy.... what they've never seen a woman tackle electrical before?!?!)
- Organize my closet (it was a mess!)
- Paint our fireplace mantel white (looks much cleaner and fresher)
- Installed new shades on all our living room windows
- Installed new light fixtures in our hallways and entry
- Spring clean up of our yard.
I still have a lot left to do!
- I'm almost done switching out all of our brass door knobs and hinges to brushed nickel
- Paint the brass fireplace doors black so they don't look so dated
- Hang new curtains in living room (they're all on back order right now)
- Hang the new light fixture in the kitchen (should arrive today!!)
- Paint our front door
- Finish putting up privacy film on the front door windows
- Clean all of our windows (inside and out)
- Landscape out backyard after our new patio is installed next month
- Install new storm door
As you can see I have lots left to do!
I hope other women out there take on DIY projects like these... they're so much fun! I like to tell people that I wear the tool belt in the house ;-)
Here are a few good resources
DIY Channel
HGTV
bejane.com
eHow.com
about.com
youtube.com (people post videos on how to do everything!)
Of course our biggest project is still yet to come. Brad and I would like to try to take on remodeling our kitchen sometime in the near future. Should be an interesting experience, hopefully we won't kill each other!
