Not Much Space

You might remember, this is our bedroom, we just moved the bed over there before we left last Summer.

Although both bedrooms look the same, they're not. The light room is smaller and it doesn't leave me much space on my side of the bed.

Hubby said "Move the bed over and you'll have room".

Well, I don't know about you, but I have issues with a bed in front of the window.  First it makes it hard to get to the window and second it just looks off balance.

I was thinking of building my own nightstand to get the size I need. On this trip I thought I'd look around and see what I might like and might want to give a shot at building myself.

Then our neighbor took me to Grapples. This is a "little" home decor business that is only open once a week, and it looks different every time you go there.

Staring at me was this little side table in the exact same green patina as on our bed frame.

I don't have to tell you, you know I took it home with me and it fits perfect!

As you see, I also found a lamp shade for the hobnail lamp I found a couple of months ago. 

Love the vintage feeling in the room now.

Aloha A Hui Hou!

My TV Hutch

As I mentioned, our carpenter flaked out on us and I have a few other tasks that I plan to/have to tackle. One of them is the hutch that we bought last year.

I wanted him to take the shelf out the top so we can put our TV and DVD player in there and then add folding doors so we can close it up when we aren't watching TV.

Just this week my blog friend Anne from DesignDreams by Anne posted bi-fold window coverings she made for her bathroom and it inspired me to tackle this project on my own. (I'm gonna be bugging you Anne!)

The last thing I wanted to do was to add a wood top to close up that ledge between the top and bottom parts of the hutch

Looks like I have a lot of projects in my future!

So our carpenter flaked out on us

I had big dreams for our wood room. We wanted a murphy bed for guests, a desk for my Hubby and a desk for me and lots of shelves for our every growing library of books. I was thinking of something like this.

I thought a bit more about the lay out.

 Finally I came to the conclusion that I would rather have the bed on the North facing wall.

When were were there, this past summer, the carpenter said he would make it for us. But somehow we  kept landing on the back burner. He kept mentioning that for the past couple of years his wife wanted a murphy bed for their office too and that if he built us one, he would have to make one for his wife too. I guess that's why he changed his mind on making ours.

It seems that all carpenters in the area are too busy to respond, so I've decided to tackle this myself. I'll make it bit by bit. I will finally buy the Kreg jig I've always wanted. I even found a plan for the murphy bed I want to make here. They also have a a bunch of other plans to make my drawings into reality.

Wish me luck, I'm on to a new hobby!

Aloha a Hui Hou!

Another Book for my Library.

Another book that I want to add to my library is this one:

found on Amazon

This book was written by a blogger that was on a tight budget and built all the furniture for her new home.

There is a lot of cool stuff on her blog Ana White - Homemaker and I've found a couple of more things that I would like to add to my list of projects I'd like to take on for the house.

Aloha a Hui Hou!

The Builder in Me

A while back I posted about the Kreg jig and wanting to build some things for the house.

Well I've had this beauty pinned to my pinterest page for quite some time.

Photo and plan can be found here

The pin keeps disappearing, but luckily it's popular and can easily be found via a quick google search.

Looks like a good way to get the washers up, off the floor without spending all the money for pedestals.

Building project #1 on my list.

Aloha a Hui Hou!