Shutters & Shuttles

Renovation Realities

Time for some demolition! The way we arranged our house puts my studio in the master bedroom on the first floor leaving the upstairs bedroom and closet for our master. With such low ceilings and the fact that they split a tiny space into 2 even more tiny ones made it feel pretty claustrophobic up [...]

Conditioning the Walls

Part of the decision to paint the dining room black stemmed from our love of chalkboard paint. Since we have a chair rail already built in, we decided to use chalkboard paint above it and a super high-gloss black below it to give some contrast. Both needed 2 coats. 3 days after the chalkboard paint [...]