Barn Lights

Today I came home and found this nice little surprise,

Todd had painted the walls and the trim aaaaaannnnnnnd....

YES! he hung my absolutely favourite barn light sconces.

 I love them so much! 

As you may have gathered I am

a light junky. If my lighting isn't right then I'm so

 not ok. What I hate is that many times it's hard to 

 find what I love a in our bare bones budget but 

not these beauties, under $30.00 each.

 Don't you just love spaces that the lighting

takes and sets the stage for the room.

These have such a relaxed style and yet 

the brushed nickel finish is an updated necessity 

in our old house. I believe

when you have an old house you should give it new lighting

and when you have a new house, give it

old lighting.

The cabinets are painted with two coats of  

 semi-gloss latex enamel in Benjamin Moore's 

Oxford White and the walls are a custom 

colour of a light cream the same as the kitchen.

I don't have a before picture but I wish  you

could have seen this area before with it's crumbling 

 ivy wallpapered plaster walls  and tons of cold air 

coming in from the wall behind the built-ins. 

I am going to have to put my lamps for 

the bedroom on hold so that I can order the doors

for the built-ins instead and that is ok (it's not like we don't

already have some)

 because

Todd has worked hard on this and I can't

wait to see it all finished. 

Well no one ever accused us of 

sticking to just one project until it's finished! Ha Ha!
Hopefully we can get the bedroom finished soon too.

Here is my really really REALLY rough sketch

of the design so you can see where the

doors will go and the beadboard which is not

too clear in the pictures. I need to find the perfect

brackets for under the middle cabinet,

 some nice baskets

for the open shelves 

and some artwork or 

pictures.

We are tossing up between staining the floor and stairs the same as the 

bench top or paint in an extremely durable porch floor oil paint in

 Benjamin Moore's Manchester Tan that we

painted our front porch floor with. I think the porch paint

would be more durable and keep things light and airy as 

I tend to like but the dark wood would look nice too, 

what do you think? If we go for the paint then it 

will definitely not be done until the better weather to get

some ventilation. Oil paint fumes are very bad for your health.

This side has removable shelves so 

I can put a big bin of our one day pooches food

and yes it will probably be a big bin for he or she, 

as we have always loved big dogs.

Todd now thinks that it looks too good for an

ugly blue recycle bin and I sure do agree so if he's 

hip to transferring the recycles from a nicer bin

to the curb side bin every single week then 

power to him. We'll have to see how long that will 

last.

This is going to be such a great overflow area for storage from the 

kitchen for bulk foods, infrequently used appliances etc and will be 

a great selling feature if we ever have to sell. After all  isn't it all about storage

these days!!