Busy Girl Painting and Design Dilemmas!

Good Morning!  When I first started writing this blog, it was easy.  I have so many ideas of what to write about and share with you that they practically wrote themselves down and I was able to write a week ahead!  It is still easy, except....when I'm busy painting!  I am going into my busy season with ornaments now and I need to find a way of working through my list and writing about the projects.  That didn't happen this week and so here I am on Sunday, writing for today's blog.  

Here are just a few of my ornaments going out this week!

I thought I would share with you a few design dilemmas solved by ingenuity (of the homeowner) and/or the use of paint.  I think we all have inherited some kind of awkward space or situation that needs to be addressed.  (Mine right now is my sitting room - more on that in the weeks to come!)

Let me start by saying that my sister in law is so creative!  I absolutely adore spending time with her and this past summer visited her in Memphis.  She solved a problem in her family room that I thought was genius!

Her fireplace started out similar to this photo (she didn't have a "before" photo, but she's promised to start doing that for me!  :)

Basically a brick wall with a fireplace in the middle and a raised hearth across the entire thing.  Having the brick removed can be pricey, and so she had a carpenter come in and build cabinets OVER the brick!

 

You would never guess there was brick behind those cabinets!  (The room looks dark because of my camera flash)



She had the carpenter just go around the hearth and to complete the illusion she had him but drawer fronts on the bottom to look like there is a drawer down there.  Pure genius!

I painted for a client with a long wall between the kitchen and family room.  She wanted to have a different color in the family room and so we painted this plant. (she helped me as this particular client is my very talented sister)  See how the color changes from one side to the other?  I've done this for others using just a simple checkerboard pattern.

Here are a few others that I found online that I think are great!



Hiding the big black box!

Great way to hide the thermostat - although you do need to make sure there is ample airflow around it

 Thank you so much for reading and also for bearing with me as I work the kinks out of writingthis precious blog into my crazy lifestyle!   I can't wait to show you what I'm working on this week!