The Pink fireplace goes what else but White

There is nothing I like better than to tell my painter to get out the spray gun and fill it with Benjamin Moore White Dove. This room is from a 1950"s rancher. I am not sure why it was pink or who thought pink was a good brick color. I told the painter to paint the whole room in white dove with a high gloss finish. The painter along with some of the guys working on this project were skeptical about painting the brick and the paneling. I thought it can't be any worse than leaving it pink so I took my chances. The room became a light and bright room and I added a new burlap drum shade handmade light fixture from my favorite ladies at www.lowcountryoriginals.net

This room became a room everyone wanted to hang out in. 

The lesson here is don't keep the pink brick. 

Rain rain go away

I thought when we moved to Oklahoma we would not see rain ever again. I was wrong. I have been wrong for the past three weeks. In fact I was so wrong that we decided three weeks ago on a hot sunny day to start installing a pool as we wanted to be prepared for the long hot sunny Oklahoma summer. I was wrong. We do have water in our pool just the wrong kind. Here is a picture of the rain collector in our backyard. Someday it may get finished but not anytime soon. 

Hoping for summer weather soon.

Xo

Sj

Renovate to sell

Clients that want to sell their homes don't want to spend money. I completely understand. The 13 houses I have renovated for myself all required updates to get them sold. So I totally get when they tell me I don't want to spend any money to sell but the saying "you need to spend money to make money " is very true.

This house was a home in a neighborhood with homes in the million dollar price bracket but it did not look like a million dollar home. It had sat on the market for over a year when the seller contacted me to give my opinion on why no one would pay them 1.5 million. This home would be lucky to sell at a million even with updates as it didn't have a wow factor. It was a custom built home but the seller didn't do anything special. 

This master bath is a good example of that as it had a very unattractive porcelain tile, cultured marble counter tops and brass fixtures with a dark brown cabinet

Plus for a master bath it just wasn't glamorous nor was the lighting 

We tried to be cost conscious andsaved the  cabinets  by painting in a Benjamin Moore white dove high gloss

We replaced the tile with a natural travertine stone from Lowes and the countertop was a beautiful marble with undermount square sinks new fixtures in bronze  New lighting from Circa www.circalighting.com

New frameless shower door 

Shower fixtures in bronze by Delta 

Tub remained and we changed gold fixtures to bronze 

New cabinet hardware and we have a fresh master. Not over the top glamour but tastefully done and one a new buyer would appreciate.