ROBIN & JAVI MOVED INTO THEIR AMAZING NEW DREAM HOME

ROBIN & JAVI MOVED INTO THEIR AMAZING NEW DREAM HOME

Robin had just moved into her new home when I took these pictures.
I know she still had a lot more decorating to do, but I wanted to show you this beautiful home.

Several months ago, I painted and distressed this kitchen island.
Robin chose this color and wanted me to paint it very old and distressed.
 I love how she designed the bench on the back of the island.

She designed and ordered two long tables with copper tops.
She ordered two so there would be a separation in the middle to get to the long bench.

This is my favorite room in Robin's new home.  It is a huge laundry and craft room.
 The walls are lined with upper and lower cabinets.  

  The floor tiles are, actually, blue and white  They look gray in these pictures.  

    A few years back, Robin asked me to paint black and distress these shutters for her daughter's room in her other home.  They look really nice in her new home, too.

Wet bar.

This is a very long hallway to the original smaller home.  They remodeled this casita for their guests.  Those doors at the end of the hall were the original doors for the original home.
Thank you Robin and Javi for my small part in your beautiful new home.
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LINKS TO:
PAINTING DISTRESSED FINISHES IN ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME
ANTIQUE DOORS FOR ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME

ANTIQUE DOORS FOR ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME

 ANTIQUE DOORS FOR ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME

 I want to show you the beautiful antique doors Robin found for her new home.

This antique door is for her front powder room.

I think her painters only stripped the stain from the wood and sealed.

Look at that screen!

This antique door is Robin's pantry door.

I painted COMIDA on it...means food in Spanish.

And, I painted the tiny black trim around the glass.

This antique door is for a guest bath.

This is the antique door for her master bedroom.  It had some areas that had been sanded and some areas where white paint was splattered.  I mixed Americana Raw Umber craft paint and a little bit of Ceramcoat Black together.  Added a little bit of water and brushed most of the door.  I use craft paints for touch ups often because they are so durable.

Robin's painters stained the door frame and baseboards.

When Robin found this door is was perfectly aged with paint peeling in just the right places.  When they delivered the door to Robin's new home the door had been stripped of all color...oh, no!!  So, I stained the wood with a light brown stain, painted and distressed it.  One of the reasons she chose this one was the wonderful old glass at the top.  You can see a little bit of the glass in this picture.  (Look at her laundry/hobby room floor tile.)

When Robin and Javi purchased this property there a a small house on it. 

 They wanted to build a larger home, so they remodeled and are using the original home as their guest casita (cottage).  They attached the casita to the larger home with a lonnnngggg hallway with windows that look out on their pool, stables and back property.  

She saved the original double front doors that were in the little house and installed them as the entrance to the casita.  She, also, saved the original stained glass and had it installed above the doors.  I painted the doors a wood color, then...

painted them black and rubbed the edges so the brown would show through.

I rubbed the paint off with the tip of my finger as you can see the dots on the rag.

I love the way Robin decorates.
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 MORE PICTURES OF ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME
ROBIN & JAVI MOVED INTO THEIR AMAZING NEW DREAM HOME

PAINTING DISTRESSED FINISHES IN ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME

PAINTING DISTRESSED FINISHES IN ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME

Robin and Javi were building a new home.  I've painted for Robin for many years and was excited that she needed me to do a few things in her beautiful new home.

She told me the colors and finish she wanted for her kitchen island. 

 So, I painted, stained and distressed it.

That is a bench in front of the island.
Robin planned for two dining tables to go in front of the bench

Don installed all of the tile in the whole house.
Tile floors throughout, bath tile and kitchen tile.  He did a great job!!
The tile on the floors looks like wood.

This will be their outdoor kitchen.
 In the background is a small barn that Robin will remodel.
I think she will have miniature horses.

Robin and Javi's new home is so beautiful!
Robin went shopping for antique doors.  Next post I will show you some of them.
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MORE PICTURES OF ROBIN & JAVI'S NEW HOME
ROBIN & JAVI MOVED INTO THEIR BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME

PAINTING AT THE ZOO ~ A DREAM JOB FOR ME

PAINTING AT THE ZOO ~ A DREAM JOB FOR ME

Recently, I gave a paint bid for some work at our zoo.  

This week I found out our team's bid was accepted. 

 They are building a new exhibit and I get to be the painter.

It's next to this exhibit.  The giraffes and zebras will be watching us.

A dream job for me.  It will be hard work, but I'm so excited!

Giraffe and zebra exhibit.  They were just fed their breakfast.  Zebras up on the hill.

PAINTING A WHITE CEILING BEAM TO LOOK LIKE A DARK WOOD BEAM FOR HAYLEY & JUSTIN'S NEW KITCHEN

PAINTING A WHITE CEILING BEAM TO LOOK LIKE A DARK WOOD BEAM FOR HAYLEY & JUSTIN'S NEW KITCHEN

Recently I painted Hayley and Justin's kitchen cabinets.

They were doing a major kitchen makeover.

This ceiling beam was painted beige like her ceiling.  

Hayley wanted it to look like wood and asked me to paint it for her.

First I painted a tan wood tone.  Then used a very dark brown to glaze over the tan.  I painted on and rubbed off (unevenly) with a rag using long and short swipes with my rag.  With an even darker brown, I painted tiny uneven swirls here and there to look like knot holes.

You can choose your own wood colors.  

Dark gray would be good on top of a tan, too.

This is Hayley's kitchen before I painted it the dark blue gray.  

Above the window you can see the color the beam used to be.

Hayley changed out light fixtures, removed a wall, added new flooring and other changes.  

She did a great  job!

Here is a link to her kitchen that I painted:

PAINTING HAYLEY & JUSTIN'S KITCHEN CABINETS

I love all of the blue and gray tones that she used in this project.

PAINTING HAYLEY & JUSTIN'S KITCHEN CABINETS & FRONT DOOR.

PAINTING HAYLEY & JUSTIN'S KITCHEN CABINETS & FRONT DOOR 

Hayley and Justin wanted to make changes to their kitchen.

They asked me to paint all of the cabinets.  

Their home is one of my favorite floor plans, ever!  I love the layout.

  There is a wonderful little bridge that leads from the street to their front door.
Very tall lavender crepe myrtles, full of blooms.
drape over the painted black bridge and around the home.

Hayley has lots of windows that overlook her back yard.  There was so much light and reflection in the kitchen that I couldn't get pictures of the exact colors that I painted.
The dark grayish blue in the sample below is the actual color of her kitchen island.

SW6251 Outerspace ~ Island paint color
70BG 19/071 Mystery Sound ~ Devoe Paint ~ Color of kitchen cabinets.
I used semi-gloss paint.
The color combination was really nice.
If you like grays and gray blue colors, check out these colors.

 The wide opening on the left was a small door opening.
That's one of the major changes to the kitchen that made a huge difference.
It opens to the dining room.

This is where that wall was.  (I'm standing in the kitchen.)
Before, you could not see the dining room from the kitchen. 
Much more light in both rooms from all of  the windows.
Doesn't it look great, now!
Look at the light fixtures in the dining room and kitchen.

This stained glass window is high in the living room.  The wall around it is off white.

Hayley's decorator found this antique scale.  It was bright orange.
She wanted to put it on Hayley's kitchen island and asked me to paint it white.
The bright white looks really sharp on the dark island.

Hayley found these huge copper light fixtures for her front porch.
She wanted her front door to be purple, so her decorator found this dark grayish purple.
This color is BM AF-645 Chambourd
A perfect color for more of the wonderful stained glass in this home and the copper lights.

The bridge, painted black, to her front door.
Very tall lavender crepe myrtles drape over and around the bridge.

Front door (before).

Kitchen cabinets (before)
See the ceiling beam above the window?  She asked me to paint it to look like wood.
Will show the beam to you in the next blog post.
Such a happy home!
Thank you, Hayley, for asking me to paint for you.
I loved working in your beautiful home!!
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See the painted ceiling beam up by the window.
Here is a link to the way it looks now, after I painted it to look like wood:
PAINTING A WHITE CEILING BEAM TO LOOK LIKE A DARK WOOD BEAM

PAINTING VENT HOOD CORBELS & ROPE TRIM TO MATCH ANNA & DIEGO'S PANTRY DOOR

PAINTING VENT HOOD CORBELS & ROPE TRIM TO MATCH ANNA & DIEGO'S PANTRY DOOR

In the previous post I showed you Anna and Diego's pantry door.  

It was a white door and they asked me to paint and distress it to look really old.

Then, they agreed it would look good to paint the vent hood corbels like the pantry door.

Anna and Diego love decorating their beautiful home and are have very good ideas.  They decided they wanted to add a rope trim to the vent hood and paint it like the pantry door, too.

It was such a good idea!  Diego is good at carpentry.  He mitered and added the rope trim.

(I think anybody who is good at mitering is a genius :)

This is a close up of the distressed/old finish I painted on the pantry door.  Anna found this antique door knob, cleaned it and it looks just wonderful! on the dark door.

The pantry door is just to the left of the stove.  From their big open living area you can see the pantry door and the vent hood at the same time.  Those chairs in the background are the chairs Anna asked me to paint black/distressed.  I'll share a link to the chairs and the pantry door.

Their cabinets are a creamy beige and glazed. 

 The vent hood was nice, but much nicer now. 

The new painting really added a beautiful touch to their kitchen.

PAINTING A WHITE PANTRY DOOR TO AN AGED/DISTRESSED FINISH & PAINTING ON GLASS

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PAINTING DINING CHAIRS BLACK FOR ANNA & DIEGO

PAINTING DINING CHAIRS BLACK FOR ANNA & DIEGO

PAINTING DINING CHAIRS BLACK FOR ANNA & DIEGO

Anna and Diego have a beautiful new home.
 They felt some of their furniture needed to be updated to fit with their new decor.
 They asked me to paint their breakfast room chairs.

A few years ago, I painted their kitchen island in their other home.
Anna asked me to paint her chairs similar to the island.
I painted them black and rubbed the paint off of the design.

Anna found this beautiful fabric and recovered the chair seats (herself).
I love the colors.  They look so good with her new black chairs.

Their table had a black base, so the chairs looked really good with that, too.

Chairs "before".