The downstairs hallway wasn't as bad as upstairs. It was mostly just the orange{ish} trim, white boring walls, white boring door, gold ball light fixtures, and gold marble swirl tile that bothered me. So, pretty much everything about it :-). Ha! But, at least it didn't have wallpaper!!
I like the door with the window. But, I didn't like that everyone could see into the house from the backyard. We found this awesome window stuff so attach to the window. It makes it pretty and functional!!
I wasn't sure what to do about the floor. I hated it. But we couldn't afford to replace it yet. So, I had a marvelous idea....
Here are more pictures of the hallway.
See how yucky the tile was??
I painted the {orange} doors. But, they still didn't look nice. So, I convinced the hubbs that we should just replace all the doors downstairs. I didn't realize what a mess?project that would be!!
Just getting them home was a chore.
We filled up our whole van.
Here's the door waiting to be installed.
Here's the Master bedroom door we replaced. Yuck!!
Here it is all installed. Love it!
The hubbs picked out the wrong door. So, now our door opens up into the hallway instead of our room. Which ended up being a good mistake. We like it better. It makes the entry into our room feel bigger.
Then we started in on the other 3 doors. It was a HUGE job for my baby! Each door took like 3 to 4 hours. Hanging and door and making it level is not easy!!!
After we installed the doors I had to paint all of them. They were cream. I painted them white.
This is the theater room door all done. Pretty!!
Then after all the doors were done we took all the trim off.
The hubbs measured the new trim and cut it. Then I painted it and put it aside.
Remember how I told you about the ugly tile that I didn't want to replace?
Well, I remembered I could PAINT it. And so I did.
I painted around the edges so that we could still walk around down there.
It's super sticky so we couldn't walk on it for a full 24 hours.
I used a long handled roller with a foam roller. The paint rolled on sooo nicely. I love tile paint!!! If you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
Then when it was dry, the hubbs stapled the new trim on.
Then I painted a small portion of the hallway and let it dry for 24 hours.
Then a few days later I painted the rest of the hallway.
That made for an adventure!! We had to try to squeeze onto the edges where I had already painted a few days before. It was pretty tricky! It made us laugh!!
{BTW, I can't wait to get rid of the yucky stairs and stair rail}
The finished product is seriously AMAZING!!! It looks and smells brand new!!! I love love love it!!! Every time I look at it, it makes me happy!!
And we did replace the lights finally. But, I haven't taken final pictures of that yet. Much better!!
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