Have you ever done something with your house that you thought was going to look really great, but turned out to be a total dud? I have.
About three weeks after moving into our new house two and a half years ago, my wife and I were already sick of the sheetrock returns around all of the windows. For some reason, when the house was being built, we picked them because we thought they looked slick and modern or something like that. But after looking at them for less than 30 days we just decided they looked, well, cold and boring. So trimming out these windows went on to our list of future home improvement projects. Unfortunately, the project never had enough priority to get done.
Fast forward a couple of years. A new baby is on the way and the guest room needs to be turned into a nursery pronto. This is going to be our first and perhaps only girl, so she will definitely be our little princess. And a princess deserves a nursery devoid of unsightly sheetrock returns! Time to get to work. Read on for a window trim idea to spruce up boring sheetrock returns. Read More
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How To Install Wainscoting – Our Cure for Being In The Pink!
A friend once said of my wife that she is not afraid of color. There is ample evidence of this in our home, with its yellow kitchen/family room, gold rag-painted living room, blue and deep-red sunroom, and so on. And most of the rooms actually look great, as she is good at picking the right shades. With one notable exception: Our side hallway, which some years back fell victim to a sneak attack of pink paint. (She claimed it was rose, but it sure as hell looked pink to me; anyhow, a rose by any other name is still pink, and still looketh like crap, as wise Willie Shakespeare aptly observed. Read More