Theaters and Breakfast Benches

This weekend was spent getting some of the fun details done.

The little breakfast bench needed a cushion, so I went out to get some fabric and some foam and...ta dah!! We've got ourselves a custom seat cushion! The green is a little brighter than I'd originally envisioned and than the green of the kitchen walls, but it actually works nicely with the whole color scheme. Thanks to the ingenuity of HGTV and my friend, Tina, pictured here, we completed this project in a half hour. Seriously. We used some of the extra shelving boards from the cupboards and a newly acquired staple gun for a super easy, professional-looking product!

At the same time, the basement was getting set up as the theater. See here how the 115" screen looks on the wall. It's hard to get the scale in this dark image, but you can barely see the furnace door the the left of the screen image.

Since the projection can be enlarged to however big it needs to be, we nixed the roll down screen and put it right on wall! To continue with the movie theater theme, we're putting up red velvet curtains. The first one went up to cover up the little window. Also with Tina's help, this little curtain now blocks the day light from getting in and washing out the image.

The speakers for the surround sound also went up, completing the full theater effect. We currently only have two seats downstairs, so it's a bit limited in terms of seating for screenings. But then again we do have that nice, new cushy carpet!

The purple room's old wood boarded walls got a white overcoat and it looks fantastic! The iron was excavated from the piles of boxes residing in the room above the garage so I got to use my ironing board for the first time last week. The only unfortunate part was that the board cover is ripped, stained and so smelly that I was afraid my blouse would end up smelling too musty to wear! It really needs a new board cover; that'll be next weekend's sewing project.

One of the last projects was to build a platform in the attic above where the bathroom can lights rose up in to the attic floor. As they were, most of the attic was unusable as a storage space. It was also dangerous to walk around up there so for safety reasons, we put up a false floor. Here's a couple of shots of the attic, including a look down the stairs in to one of the two locations where the old linoleum remains.

We're going to have a long road ahead of us to get to where we consider the all the initial stuff done. But we're well on our way!