Home Improvement | Semi-Seasonal

Well, it FINALLY happened folks! This blogger finally got off her blogging bootie and COMPLETED a project! * Enter Rocky theme song here*

Yep, that’s right, I finally completed a home improvement project! Are you ready to hear about what it was?? I know your itching to find out! Drum roll please….I painted my front door red!!

It’s not a big project, but darn it, it’s something, and it’s done! Often times, I will post during shots, the occasional before shot, but never have I posted a completely completed AFTER!! Yup, this is the very first After photo to appear on The Yellow Casa. So, here she is:

I used Behr Cherry Tart, it took two coats on both sides. Yep, I painted the inside red too. It was slightly nerve racking, deciding whether to paint both sides red, but ultimately I’m glad I took the plunge.

Sorry about the dark photo, the lighting in my living room isn’t quite the same with the door is closed. And I was just too exited to wait for the hardware to be put back in place, I had to take a photo! I’ll make another this evening with the hardware in place. That way you’ll get to see a final product from the inside!

As mentioned above, I used Behr’s Cherry Tart. It was a close race between Cherry Tart and Bijor(?) Red.

The winner is on the left and the not so lucky contestant is on the right. As you can see, the latter had more orange in it. Both colors are pretty, but the red tone works better with the “tone” of our casa. As always, I forgot to take a before picture, but from the picture above you can see that my door was naked wood. It didn’t have any type of finishing, so hopefully my Cherry Tart paint will help her have some modesty!!

And just for giggles, here is our security door:

I’ve considered removing this door for better curb appeal, but it does keep the bad people out, and it brings in a lot of light. Since my red door makes me so happy, maybe I will paint this door red too.

Or I could stop while I’m ahead and paint the town red instead! Ha, don’t you love rhymes!

Signed,

April (the red door loving feign)

Last night the sweetie and I paid the neighborhood Home Depot a visit. While there, I spied my favorite bathroom faucet, and get this, ON CLEARANCE!!! I was so excited I did a happy dance!! And my sweetie pretended not to know me. He does this quite frequently as I often do my happy dance in public. What can I say I’m happy, and when I’m happy I dance!

But I digress, the reason my precious was so heavily discounted, was because it was the display, and the only one left. And didn’t come with any of the fancy hoses you need to hook it up to a water line. Apparently these are really important, but I know nothing about that sort of thing, yet. I have a feeling I will soon be getting a lesson from the sweetie.

Here she is, not mine of course, apparently I was too excited to take pictures of my actual faucet.

Courtesy of Home Depot

The price on the website is $118 buck-a-roos, but I got mine for a cool $35 bucks! *Enter Happy Dance Here!*

And it’ll go great with my favorite bathroom vanity.

Image Courtesy of Home Depot

I had taken pictures of the display in the store with a top on it, but some dummy who shall remain nameless, *ahem* forgot her camera today and will have to wait until she gets home to post more accurate pictures.

But for now here are some vanity tops I liked:

Image Courtesy of Home Depot

And last week, I visited a local discount store and scored a lovely dark wood mirror to use as our bathroom primping mirror. Unfortunately, since dummy forgot her camera, pictures of that will have to wait. But here’s one that has the same finish, and is very similar. Except my mirror has a design on top.