Paine Wedding

If possible, the person sealing us next week is even more excited than we are! We are being sealed by the president of the Nashville Tennessee Temple.

Yeah, we are happy :)

Home Renovations = Fun

Ali, Kat and Luke spent the first 41 days of summer vacation 2010 visiting their dad in Utah. Since we recently purchased and moved into a new house, we thought it would be fun to decorate their bedrooms.

It was fun.

It was a lot of work.

It was a small fortune.

We had a great time doing it and we surprised the kids! We now how the Paine Family Bed and Breakfast. You can choose what themed room you would like to stay in: Shabby Chic, Circles of Color or Automotive. I should mention that the "breakfast" part of our bed and breakfast is cold cereal...and you load the dishwasher when you are done!

Shabby Chic--Ali's Room

So, here is Ali's room. We started her's second and I believe finished first. She has this mirror (she stole from me) she wanted the whole room based on.

Her paint is from Home Depot. The only paint we buy now is Baer Primer + Paint. It is a dream. Matt chose a Disney color for her walls. I think it is Pixie Dust. Sometimes it looks pink and other times it looks purple.

This was our first try at the wainscot. Matt is a smart guy and a perfectionist. So, it looks great. Early into this project...like 5 minutes, he turned to me and asked if I knew what our problem was. Sadly, I didn't even know that we HAD a problem. Well, it turned out our "problem" is that both our dads are coming this month and we both want them to approve of our handiwork! It took Matt 3 tries to get the first piece cut correctly. Between the second and third try, I kindly informed him my dad always told us, "Measure twice, cut once." He didn't think I was very cute :)

I found the bedspread at Goodwill for $20. It is Nautica. It is perfect.
I found her desk at a garage sale back in May. I asked the lady why she was selling it. She said that she bought it for $450 and her daughter wouldn't study. So, she painted it white. After it was white, her daughter still wouldn't study. So, she was giving up and selling it. The poor girl is only in 8th grade and I guess her academic career is over! You better study or we will toss it!

Matt brought those glass shelves home from work months and months ago. He likes to tell people I rolled my eyes when he did...and I did. I do believe they were just tossing them out. Or maybe they were a penny or two. But, they are so perfect in both girls rooms.
Below you can see the mirror that inspired the whole room. We also printed and mounted a fun YW theme for each girl's room.

Love ya, Al!!

Circles of Color--Kat's Room

All Kat told us about what she wanted in her room was: white walls and orange circles. She is the only one we really listened to regarding requests. The others, we just did what we wanted! But, Kat, she is one you don't want to cross :) We took her basic ideas and ran with them!

The walls are Polar Bear White. Kat made it perfectly clear that she did NOT what her bed painted. I forgot that part until she said, "Isn't it funny how I told you NOT to paint my bed and you painted it and I LOVE it?"

The circles are vinyl we ordered off eBay. 75 of them for $22. Can't beat that!

Kat's bedroom was started last. It took us a while to get inspired. Here is the end result!

Kat's desk was bought from Goodwill. It is solid wood except for the top piece. It was purchased for $15. It is Mission style.

We found the turquoise circle pillow and pink Build-a-Bear poodle at a yard sale. I asked the lady how much she wanted for the poodle. She asked what I wanted to pay. That always ticks me off. I told her fifty cents. It was pretty much new. But, if she didn't care how much she got, or didn't get, why should I? She did ask for a dollar and we gave in. What a deal!

We are glad you love your room, Kat. And we love you!

Automotive Room--Luke's Room

Luke's room was the first room we started and the last room we finished. Go figure! Luke is not a huge car fan but we thought it would be a fun theme for him as he grows up. His Grandpa Olson was big into cars as a teenager and knows everything about them. We got the basic ideas for his room from a book. We, however, tweaked them and made them all WAY better.

Let's start with the walls. The idea in the book suggested using roofing tin for the walls. We absolutely LOVED that idea...but couldn't think of a way to made it actually work. And if Matt can't think of a way to make it work, it ain't gonna happen! We had reached a stand still for the whole room because we thought the whole concept was lacking without the metal on the walls. Then, we went and helped out with an Eagle Scout project. The project was painting fire hydrates with aluminum paint. Bingo! It hit me near the end...use aluminum paint and paint wainscot. And we were back!!!

All in all, the wainscot was more difficult than in Ali's bedroom. We were using an oil based paint and hanging it horizontally. Who does that? I painted it with two coats of paint and then Matt hung it. Then Matt pulled it down. Hung it again. Then I gave it one more coat. In Ali's room, we could hide the uneven baseboards with the chair rail. In Luke's room, the adjustment had to be made to the bottom of the wainscot pieces. Yeah, learned that the hard way. But, doesn't it just rock? It looks like chrome. It is an amazing look.

We painted his trim, bed and dresser with red paint. Then we placed license plates on the footboard and dresser. The license plates started out on the headboard but were covered by his bedding. Why did we have to figure out so many things the hard way?!?!

The side table is probably the coolest item in the whole room. We found the wheels at a swap meet. $15. I asked Matt to weld them on top of each other. He created this great design and I painted them with the aluminum paint to match the wall treatment. We wanted to top it with tempered glass. But, that was going to cost us $150. Ugg. So, we got a piece of plexiglass for $10. It came in a square and Matt cut it into a circle.

Nana and Papa gave Luke this stop light bank a few years ago for Christmas. Perfect, right?

The picture that is hanging above his bed is an original drawn by Grandpa Paine. It totally completes the room and is a true treasure.

The reflectiveness of the plates can always guide him to bed :)

Love you, Luke!

Sleep tight.