Epic Room Makeover Update #1

By Mandi 06/30/2011

Yo Yo!

Have you guys been missing me? Cause I have been missing you!

So as most of you know I have been working on Jessica’s Makeover for the last couple of days and let me tell you she is a slave driver. Just kidding.

So do you want to see what we are working on?

Of course you do!

You should also know that all the cute pics we took the first 2 days didn’t save to my card, and I didn’t know. So sorry for no fun ones whilst shopping.

If you follow me on twitter you know that the colors that I picked are white, gray, kelly green and yellow.

Jessica hates yellow (well hated, its growing on her now) and she also hates brass…which I love. Sorry lady.

We are doing something AMAZING with this chandy:

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And something that these belonged to:

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Ps. It took us LITERALLY 7 shots to get a pic where I wasn’t a freakazoid.

Who has found a cute chair like this?

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But it has a major issue like this:

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Oh, hello hand!

I am busting out an awesome project that you guys are going to LOVE for broken cane chairs.

We went fabric shopping at Ikea and Joanns and scored this amazingness:

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Ps. Did you know Joann’s has an app? So you never have to remember your coupons! Just search “Jo-Ann” in the app store.

We went to Home Depot to get our boards cut and got 1/2 off of one of the sheets of MDF! I took a pic of Jess and Cale our Home Depot Homie but my camera didn’t save it. Bummer. Want to know how to get 1/2 off? ASK.

Last night we started putting up the board and batten…

on our own…

with no men.

Once we figured out how to use Jess’s husbands ginorm air compressor (thanks Court!) we were like moulding ninjas.

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Don’t worry I will post a full tutorial for it.

And we borrowed Jess’s grandpas miter saw…

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But it only does straight cuts…so we used a saw box and Jess’s muscles to make the ends cute.

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My weak arms are not built for that kind of manual labor…so I just tried to take Shelley style pics… I failed.

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Ps. this is at midnight so don’t judge my lack of gorgeousness.

Blowing off my blazing hot nail gun…and no, I am not preggo. But thanks for asking.

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Around 11:30 Katie Jessica’s BFF came with TREATS!! and some serious muscle. She is little but man she can pull nails out like its nobody’s business.

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And this is where we ended at 1:45 in the morning.

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Don’t forget that our GNO is tonight!! I will have some really awesome prizes, so bring your fave treat and come hang!

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25 thoughts on “Epic Room Makeover Update #1”

  1. Boy oh boy…do I look like a frikkin’ super model or WHAT?!?

    Seriously ladies! This is SO much fun! Mandi is the bomb dot com!!! And, yes, I DIDN’T like yellow but she has convinced me…she’s still working on the whole brass issue though 😉

    Can’t wait to see everyone tonight…I promise I’ll at least have make-up on!

  2. Board and batten looks great! I’m in the middle of it as well and am at the same stage you are… I need to know, do you caulk only between where the boards meet each other, or between the boards and the wall too??? I’m stuck until I can figure that out 🙂

  3. Looks like you girls are having a lot of fun. Hope you are.

    Did not know about Jo-Ann’s app, that is very cool and much appreciated! I would rather save my coupons electronically and save a tree than print them out.

  4. It’s looking so good! I love the colors you picked out & the chandy. Can’t wait to see what the board & batten looks like. You guys are awesome & have some serious manly power to use those tools & get everything hung by yourselves! I wouldn’t know where to start. Keep up the good work & Mandy, make sure you camera card is working 😉 Can’t wait to see the next update. Great job gals!

  5. sounds like so much fun! you have to post step by step what you did with that chair cause i have 2 and im totally stumped at what to do!!!

  6. I also have a chair exactly like that (except in orange) that also has a whole in it and have been stumped at how to fix it. Can’t wait to see what you did!

  7. OMH girl it is looking so awesome! You are awesome.

    I love that you love brass. I have a lot of brass in this house and I don’t mind one bit.

    p.s. I’m sorry about the whole Monday/hubby sitch-eeation.

    p.s. I’m sorry for talking your ear off the other day when you NEEDED TO GO. (my bad).

  8. Ah man, totally jealous! Looks like super duper lots of fun. I’ve been begging for board and batten for like a zillion years…maybe I need to figure out how to use a nail gun myself. And it sounds like if I learn how to wink I can get half off on boards at Home Depot. Sweet!

  9. I am so excited to see this room done. Thank you so much for hosting a GNO up here. It was so fun to meet you. I was super nervous cuz it was my first bloggy thing so sorry if I was a little on the shy side. Thanks for being so sweet. And I am so excited I won the paint brush it will come in handy since I am doing my own bedroom make over and am in the process of painting my dressers white 🙂 Thanks again. Love you and your amazing blog. You are my idol woman

    A mommy’s life…with a touch of YELLOW
    tyandwhitneyulrich.blogspot.com

  10. Sweet! So jealous it wasn’t me!

    So do you just say, “yo, can I have 1/2 off my MDF ’cause…. I’m cool?”? Or what? Because my dad and I just made this mudroom coat hanger and shoe cubby thing (its beyond epic, I’ll give you a link when we’re done.) with MDF and now I’m mad I didn’t get it 1/2 off 😀

    Thank you! You’re awesome!

    Alyssa

  11. I LOVE your fabrics! I’m already a huge yellow fanatic. Can not wait for the big reveal. Your GNO looks like it was fun too (I bet it wasn’t as good as ours though huh? he he) Keep workin your guts out! It’s looking awesome.

  12. so excited to see how it looks! I’m actually really excited to see the board and batten done, it looks like you are going for a fancy pattern!!

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