Sunday, November 30, 2008

Happenings at the homestead

Nesting time again. I am blessed to have a whole room for my own (3rd bedroom) which I have turned into my office/sewing room. Some time ago we redecorated Craig's office/guest room and I think it turned out really great. The theme is "world travel", based on this giant map we got at IKEA ages ago. All the wall and deco fabric colors are derived from the map, with a silver/white/birch furniture scheme we were able to cobble together from existing and some new stuff from IKEA (my new favorite furniture store as it's cheap and I won't cry if we have to get rid of it in the next move).
So, with Craig's room looking so awesome (in my humble opinion), I have been burning the brain cells trying to make my own sewing room at least as good if not better. I found some great fabric to make curtain for the window and as replacements for the closet doors (this works great as I can open the whole closet area all at one time to stuff multiple storage boxes on the big rack that replaced the single hanger bar).

still has a ways to go, but I finally got the bulletin board and thread racks up.
next up on the opposite wall is the giant pegboard (6' x 3') that Craig helped me mount this weekend.
It was looking sort of blah, so I painted a lovely chocolate brown (to match the brown fabric in the curtains) "frame" around it.
Actually this was more frustrating than I anticipated as our walls have some texture which always seems to let the paint bleed underneath the painters tape I use to mask out a line.
Luckily I still had some leftover beige wall paint and painstakingly fixed this with a teeny tiny brush to make a nice straight edge. I think the next step will be an inner border with the orange flower fabric.

Oh, and another thing we got done on this vacation is finally, finally planting a tree in the backyard. We visited the local nursery (3 Palms) to find this lovely Desert Willow. This is what it looks like today:


This is what I hope it looks like in a couple of years: