A LITTLE PEEK AT OUR “APARTMENT MAKEOVER”
It’s been a mad dash to try and get everything done for the party this Friday. More than a month of planning, sanding and finishing furniture, sourcing supplies and decorations, and arranging rooms. Realistically, the party would have taken only a couple days to plan and get ready for… but because we are finally making over our apartment, it’s taking a long time.
We moved into our apartment in March; it has been basically 9 months without fully getting our place “finished”. So this party has been a good hard date to aim for to get our place fixed up… but it certainly has been a lot of work for both Allan and I.
This past weekend we managed to finally finish mounting and hanging most of the items that need to be on the wall. The amazing part is how much space it cleared up. I’m planning on doing a room-by-room post, but for today, just a little teaser until I get the finishing touches in place.
This is the “sports room”. A lot of gear has to fit in this room. We finally managed to hang up the surfboards with the handmade wooden racks that we bought. The snowboards are hung up with plastic board mounts. It’s great to get these off the floor… they look so much nicer on the wall. Full room post coming soon.
We also finally managed to finish off the bedroom furniture. Can’t wait to show you before and after photos of the bedroom and also how the furniture looked before the treatment. For now, just a little peek at the paint finish and the new handles we mounted and treated.
Sorry for the short post… more coming soon! So excited that it is all finally coming together.
P.S. Check out the chaos in this room… haha. This is what we’ve been living in trying to get this all finished on time.
Tags: Apartment, bedroom, makeover, snowboards, sports room, surfboards, teaser, wall mount, wall racks
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November 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
looks great – love how you’ve hung up the boards. We need to do that in our garage and hang up all the bikes that we have.
can’t wait to see you in person and your party should be epic!! I’m especially looking forward to your home made cookies.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I’m such a re-organization geek. I *love* the makeover photos. I bought a little dinette (breakfast bistro set), a two-seater because I can’t have anything larger than that in my micro-apartment, and just putting art on the wall and reorganizing my place makes me feel SO happy!
November 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Can’t wait to see the true finish product on Friday
I’ve been in my place since July 08 and we are finally having our housewarming party two weekend after yours.. 9 months of renos will do that
November 9th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I’m going to have to demand you tell us where you found those snowboard hangers, as I’d like to do the same with mine. I’ll stop short of actually arranging candles around it like some sort of worship altar though. Beseeching the powers that be for more snow earlier this year.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Love your aluminum table. Is it from Pottery Barn? Or did you find one somewhere else??
November 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Love it! absolutely love it. I got a bunch of Skateboard decks hung up in my condo. Some with some really nifty artwork.
As for this friday I’ll let you know soon Allie. I’m in Toronto right now but I’ll know by tomorrow If I’ll be back in town for your partay!!! woohoo
November 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Do you have anymore info on the board mounts you used? I want to do this too but haven’t found any yet. Where did you get them from?
November 9th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
whats the tech on the wall mount for the snowboards?
did you need to use a stud-finder? where’d you get the mount from?
i got some ones that look super similar but they’re actually door stops…
November 10th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Geeez! I can barely mount photos, how on Earth did you manage the snowboards! Looks awesome though, Allie!
And hei, you got a canvas print done eh? Where’d you go for it, and what’s it like? I’m looking at Black River Imaging for mine…
November 16th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
If you ever need anyone to live in that room, or rent it, let me know. I’ll be there in a heartbeat.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:55 am
just came across your page…..Lovin the apartment its gorgeous and Jameson and Baileys good choice hope you have tried Baby Guinness
November 24th, 2009 at 11:58 am
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sorry didnt want a huge picture of me how do i get it into the small box??