Frosted pane, no pain at all

Our livingroom has a door that leads into the future garage. Right now it looks into the clutter, sawdust, and junk that is the work room. I had considered etching the glass but then saw that they make contact paper you can put on, giving the frosted effect without damaging the glass.

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This is the door before we applied the contact paper.

We took off the grid by just unscrewing it in nine places or so. Very easy. Then I cleaned the glass with some ecofriendly glass cleaner and a paper towel.

We got the contact paper from Home Depot. There were lots of different options but I decided on the one that gives the look of rice paper. For the sheet, which was almost the exact size of our door's glass pane, it only cost about $21. Not too bad. We used a spray bottle with water, a few drops of dawn and sprayed it onto the glass. Then we pealed off the backing and attached it to the window. We had to shift it around a little but it wasn't a problem. Matt had to cut off a small strip of excess. To smooth out any bubbles I used a credit card and scraped outward and down.
  We put the grid back on and called it a day. Was faster and easier than I thought it would be.

No longer looking into our messy garage. Yay!!

Building the Built-in

My husband does carpentry, so he is building our bookcase for the living room. There will be five pieces on that wall. Two cabinets, two bookshelves, one window seat. This is what the one on the right looks like. Still in it's two pieces.

The left bookcase is already put together and attached to the wall. We'll have the window seat between the two. Matty hasn't gotten to that part yet.

Renovation on River Road

Matt and I have been working on the living room lately. It took a lot of demolition but we finally get to put it back together. The archway that was there originally was in pretty poor shape. They didn't take the time to do it properly so we took it down and started from scratch.

These are a few pictures of what the entry/dining room and living room looked like when we bought the house. Lovely green peel-and-stick tile, old bent fan, cabin wood on the far wall.

Moldy ceiling, more peel-and-stick tile, and just generally poorly constructed everything. All had to be torn out and redone. Even the windows.

This is the current state of our house. That table is just till we can build a farm style one. The bar is unfinished, and obviously so is the rest, but I think it's really come a long way.

My beautiful new archway. Blue in the back of the bookcase which is the same blue as the door in the living room and also the ceiling.

Coffered ceiling in the living room. The blue is Mount Airy and the walls are Sourdough.