Pillows, Artwork, Curtain Room Divider, Door

Here are some projects I've been working on the past few weeks.

I made some envelope pillows with the same fabric as the wing chair. It's hard to tell, but the pillow on the swivel chair is the same as the pillow on the corner of the couch.  Plus we got a new plant!

 Here's how it used to look:

I hung some art work with 3M Command hooks (Plus I made the starburst!)

Here's how it used to look:

I also hung a map from South of the Border, a hotel where HH and I spent one night of our honeymoon trip from Louisiana to Nova Scotia.

Here's the wall before:

With the doorway widened between the kitchen and back room, you can see the side of the fridge when you're sitting on the couch. I used to have a bunch of little pictures and magnets there so I cleaned it up and hung a picture (with Command hooks again).

 We also hung a "curtain" to block off the hallway, to keep it cool in the kitchen, but it's just there for a little while. :-)

 Here's how it looked in the winter:

 I was inspired by this canvas & grommet room divider:

So, I hung some old Ikea Kvadrant drapery rods

that we used in our old bedroom to block off our built in closet shelves. 

I hung a curtain I had

to divide the kitchen and back room.

Home Hardware had canvas drop cloths on sale this week, but they were out of stock so I ordered one and it should be in on Saturday.  I'll get some grommets and do it up nice!  This will cheaply take the place of a sliding barn door for the time being, and maybe forever!

I started stripping... one of the doors for the front room closet!! Ha Ha!  I used Circa 1850 

which worked really well on the door .(I'm still working on the blue trunk. I started on the front side, but this paint stripper only worked on the pieces that hold it together.  I got some new stripper so I'll have to give that a try.)

 Here's the door with the stripper on it.

 

It really started to crackle and pop as the paint lifted off.

 Here I've scraped some of the paint off. It's really messy!

After I sanded and sanded using 80, then 100, then 150 grit sandpaper, here's how it looks.

I'm ok with a little stain left, but there are some stripes that I don't like.  I'll do the other door and see if I can get them to look similar. 

So, that's what I've been up to! :-)