Completed foyer
Monday, December 18th, 2006
We finally finished up the paint in the foyer. Sometimes the easiest projects take the longest!
Foyer
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Bungalow Lighting
Thursday, December 14th, 2006By the time we we purchased our bungalow in 2004, it had been abused as a rental house for well over a decade. As you might expect, none of the original lighting remained (with the exception of the brass fitters in the living and dining room box beams.) Sadly, everything else was long gone, but don’t feel too sorry for us – we definitely had fun choosing new lighting!
We selected copper-foiled Tiffany-style stained glass shades from Rejuvenation for our living room sconces, box beam fixtures and dining room chandelier.
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In our kitchen, we used five Arts and Crafts style pendant fixtures from Progress Lighting. (To tie the fixtures together with the rest of the room, we installed matching carmel-swirled glass panels in the cabinets flanking our refrigerator.)
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For our ground floor bathroom, we chose sconces and overhead lighting from Schoolhouse Electric
In our front entry hall, we used another stained glass fixture from Rejuvenation which incorporated all of our paint colors from the entry hall, living room and dining room, which really helps tie the ground floor together.
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Painting started in foyer
Monday, March 7th, 2005
It will be a full 21 months before these edges are touched up. Writing a blog after the fact gives you a different perspective on each of your projects. Sometimes you’re surprised by how quickly something seemed to move along (even if it felt slow at the time), and other times the low priority projects seem to live on forever.
Foyer (before pics)
Thursday, July 15th, 2004Before shots of our foyer. Another room with unstained woodwork (!) Nothing too bad in here, but we have hopes one day of recreating the bench that was in front of the paneled wall on the left side of the picture. Somebody removed it years ago.
