https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:10:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243180 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:37:43 +0000 anonysquire 2243180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our backyard.... it's a giant mess! We are finally get sprinklers this week! Well I think we are... the sprinkler guys came and dropped off a bunch of pipes and left and haven't came back. So let's hope they come back! And we're making over that shed for Zuma.</p> <p>I'm kind of over the backyard ever since we found a little friend hiding back there. </p> [attach=1857/15/nrwpaw.600x337.20150722_143328.jpg] [attach=1857/15/nrwpax.337x600.20150609_195636.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243171 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:26:05 +0000 .twist. 2243171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: It was my IL's house!!! And they didn't love it, which makes me ask WHYYY? haha </p> <p>Here's a before and after! </p> [attach=1438/15/nrworh.599x599.bathroom.JPG] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243106 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:30:19 +0000 MrsLonghorn 2243106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: I have tasked DH with making a similar growth chart before DS' first birthday in September. But we're going to buy vinyl numbers and tick marks from etsy or amazon because I'm much too picky to let him do that part by hand :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243104 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:28:10 +0000 hellobeeboston 2243104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: wow. The previous owner must have loved pink. Gross! Haha. </p> <p>We are doing lots of painting too. And replacing cream light switches and panel with white. Baby room, painting ceilings, cleaning out shed and re-painting it. Need to paint side deck. Etc etc etc </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243101 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:25:49 +0000 avivoca 2243101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@butterbean: No. The only time it was off limits was when I was sanding the frames. I paint at night right after H goes to bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board/page/2#post-2243032 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:24:59 +0000 butterbean 2243032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: wow!!! looks great! i really want to do this with our kitchen cabinets (still trying to convince DH)...was the kitchen off limits while the primer/paint was drying? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242889 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:25:08 +0000 .twist. 2242889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just painted our entire new house. Every single wall, and closet, was pink. Shades of rosy pink. Dark pink. Light pink. You name it, we had it. I painted it all the same colour a really light (almost too light, but I honestly can't complain because it is so much better) greige. We replaced a couple light fixtures and replaced almost all of the light switches and plugs to white, from beige switches/plugs and chrome plates. </p> <p>I need to: </p> <p>- replace bathroom sinks with arborite and a new sink/faucets.<br /> - finish a few closets from pink to "other".<br /> - replace kitchen sink faucet.<br /> - paint kitchen cabinets! @avivoca: I reeeeeally love your inspiration pic! I just pinned it! ;)<br /> - put up a couple gallery walls and spray paint all my collected frames black. </p> <p>I have a LOT to do in this house. Which will all happen eventually since I can't afford to do it all at once. My mom and I will do the bathroom counters/sinks. This house is almost overwhelming with DIY updates, but I'm looking forward to the challenge! </p> <p>I have pics but they aren't on this computer. I'll see if I can get some in here! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242872 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:17:22 +0000 Smurfette 2242872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: Michael's! They were buy one get one free. The crib looks great! My Dad made us a growth chart, I love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242868 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:15:22 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2242868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: it looks great!</p> <p>@Smurfette: I love your frames. Where did you get them? </p> <p>@rattles: I love the curtain fabric!</p> <p>We finished the crib and put it in the nursery. I found some places I need to touch up before we get the mattress. I'm going to pick up a piece of wood for the growth chart this week. I'm ready to be done working in my garage. It's too hot! I decided that the size of the IKEA shelves will work just fine so I'm buying those instead of making them. </p> [attach=1198/15/nrwd75.600x450.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242856 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:04:26 +0000 rattles 2242856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Thanks! We'd never stained anything, so it was a learning experience. We didn't love our first method, but we started on the back and figured it out before the second coat :wink: I'm glad to finally have a place to put it out! And clearly, it's helpful for corralling kids' shoes, ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242845 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:57:14 +0000 Smurfette 2242845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rattles: I love that pew! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2242841 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:55:37 +0000 rattles 2242841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: this is looking so good already! Love it!<br /> @Smurfette: this is inspiring me to get some family photos up!</p> <p>We've finished the church pew and hung our curtains! Those end tables are next, I think. </p> <p>[attach=2013/15/nrwc8p.600x450.image.jpg]</p> <p>[attach=2013/15/nrwc8q.448x600.image.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2241579 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:06:05 +0000 Mrs D 2241579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: LOVE the look - so clean and YES so much bigger!</p> <p>@Smurfette: This looks SO good - I love all the different sizes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2241569 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:55:44 +0000 avivoca 2241569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LuLu Mom: Our trim is Chantilly Lace by BM. It's definitely a cleaner, clearer white. The cabinets are more of an antique white, so it is a nice contrast.</p> <p>ETA: I don't think it would be a bad contrast. I like a variety of wood tones playing nicely together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2241540 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:29:58 +0000 LuLu Mom 2241540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: I'm obsessed with how this turned out, we have close to the same color cabinets and I want so badly to redo them. What color is your trim in yore house? we have this same color trim and I've been scared to stain/paint the cupboards and make it seem "off" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2241153 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:19:13 +0000 Smurfette 2241153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I need to buy more frames but so far I love it! </p> [attach=1508/15/nrt4o2.600x450.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2240446 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:29:24 +0000 avivoca 2240446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: @Mrs. Pickle: @Mrs D: </p> <p>Here's the cabinets after a coat of primer and one coat of paint. It's already so much brighter in there now that the top is lightened up and I can't believe how much taller the ceilings feel. </p> [attach=2564/15/nrsg51.600x450.IMG_3996.JPG] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238928 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:29:13 +0000 yoursilverlining 2238928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BandDmommy: anything I don't personally do is done by our handyman too - DH is many wonderful things, handy is not one of them. </p> <p>I finished one project already - low stone border around front flower beds, and we put in 4 white hydrangeas. </p> <p>I want to spiff up our mudroom. We have a nice bench, but I want to either so fake wainscoting or beadboard wallpaper, large mirror and some storage on the walls for coats, winter stuff, etc.</p> <p>Add to the gallery wall.</p> <p>ETA: we're getting porch railing done this summer too, but that's not DIY. </p> <p>[attach=1754/15/nrm1kq.600x600.image.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238887 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:44:30 +0000 rattles 2238887@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BandDmommy: Before this most recent move, my husband's hours were terrible too. It's nice to finally be able to do some of these projects as labors of love now, but before, he used to joke that "I'm really handy...handy with a checkbook" :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238846 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:56:51 +0000 Mae 2238846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want to do a gallery wall up one of the staircases, and clear out "the abyss" (our spare room that is literally hoarder-filled with all the shit left over from our wedding, projects, old decorating, and random other things we didn't want in the rest of our house. It is like Monica's secret closet in Friends). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238818 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:20:27 +0000 rattles 2238818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought a house this spring, so we've got lots of projects this summer!</p> <p>Refinish church pew - DH bought a pew from the church we were married as a wedding gift for me. Now that we finally have room for it, he stripped and stained it to go in our entry hall. </p> <p>Hang curtains - We bought curtains from Anthro for the family room but hadn't gotten around to hanging them until last weekend. </p> <p>Sand/paint end tables - We inherited a pair of end tables from my grandmother. They're in desperate need of TLC. I need to see if the current, chippy, 50 year old paint has lead before we get started, but then we're painting them. Maybe navy?</p> <p>Make a growth chart for DD1's room</p> <p>Make curtains/crib skirt for DD2's room </p> <p>Finish making DD2's Christmas stocking - this is my road trip activity for the summer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238610 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:53:38 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2238610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We finished DS's big boy room about a month ago and tackled removing wallpaper from our office and painting it last week. I'm working in it right now, but we still have to get a couch for in here and hang all of our decor back up. The two bedrooms were our DIY projects of the summer!</p> <p>The last big project that we're doing before baby comes is clearing out an area in our back yard that we share with our neighbor and getting sod put in. That's being done by a landscaping company though rather than it being DIY. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238563 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:19:38 +0000 BandDmommy 2238563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Love this!!! Have you seen our portrait hall I posted on IG. It's seriously my favorite place in our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238562 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:18:42 +0000 BandDmommy 2238562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can DIY be "pay someone because my husband is workaholic?" If so Francisco, our handy man is doing the following:<br /> - Painting family room<br /> - Finishing powder room on main floor (new tile, sink, wainscoting and wallpaper)<br /> - Paint Living room<br /> - Hang new chandelier in foyer<br /> - Woodwork that goes up our 2 story foyer<br /> - Change part of storage space in basement into guest bedroom<br /> - Turn guest bedroom upstairs to Reading Room for kids with teepee, etc..</p> <p>Sooo excited to get these projects done. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238523 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:51:39 +0000 avivoca 2238523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I'm thinking about it. I am definitely going to paint the soffit the same color as the cabinets to fool the eye into thinking they go to the ceiling, and I may remove the header piece from over the sink because I feel like it blocks so much light. There is a horrible florescent light hiding up there, and I'd like to have it changed out for either a pendant or a can light. If I had the time/muscles, I'd unscrew all the cabinets/hood and move them forward an inch so they would line up with the edge of the soffit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238374 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:03:12 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2238374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: I can't wait to see your after when it's all set. Any plans to add molding too? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238343 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:32:01 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 2238343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: I did a similar growth chart, but just black tick marks and numbers. It's hung, but not quite finished. I need to finish it up before another birthday comes around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238336 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:29:00 +0000 Mrs. J 2238336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We painted our guest room for DS' big boy room, redid his floors, and I sewed curtains. Currently, we are working on turning our office into a playroom/mudroom. I need to make cushions/pillows/curtains for the window/window seat in there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238325 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:23:43 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2238325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: I love those cabinets!</p> <p>@avivoca: @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: my master is also Palladian Blue. It's one of my favorite paint colors! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-diy-project-board#post-2238293 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:08:19 +0000 winter_wonder 2238293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: That growth chart looks so cute! </p>