Bippidi Boppidi Boo!
I know — another Cinderella reference, but you have to hear about my weekend. Remember that scene where the mice appear to make her glamorous just in time for the ball? I had a similar experience this weekend; I emailed a bunch of friends early last week with an offer — happy hour at my house in return for pizza, beer and a paint brush. You wouldn’t believe how many incredible worker bees showed up to pitch in.
Kitchen before:
Bibbidi Boppidi Boo! …
Adios Mexican kitchen. Howdy, Country Chic. It is a bit sterile, as Rebecca put it, but it is also clean. And with such a small space, the lighter color does make it seem larger.
Those worker bees in action:
Rebecca and Min, working the paint brushes.
Amanda, smiling at her husband on the ladder.
Ryan, the husband, who single-handedly repaired and painted my ceiling. I love that my friends share their handy hubbies. When they aren’t out keeping me company on my bike, they are spackling my house. Pretty sure I have the best friends in the world.
This photo, in particular, cracks me up. Amanda had been pressing me to get a new stove for a while. My old stove was off by several hundred degrees depending on the day. This made all of my baking difficult. She lovingly says goodbye to the old stove.
Bedroom before:
New bed from Ikea.
Two weeks and four cans of spray paint later…
Salty Senor puts together the pieces in my new soft yellow bedroom.
After three days of painting, cleaning and all things home-related, last night this new bedroom was way better than any fairy godmother magic. Plus, I think Cinderella had it all wrong. She can keep the glass slippers and the burning desire to be rescued. With Chacos on my feet, friends in my home and wine in my (new!) fridge — I’m set.
~K
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Oh oh oh! What a great job everyone did! Pizza and beer bribes are the best. No one can resist. And then the guilt sets in and the need to do physical activity becomes overwhelming - the perfect moment to present a paint brush and/or roller.
Congrats on your new hot space! And I love your new quilt - I will assume this is a Karol special.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:40 amLucky you! looks amazing! So nice to have a new stove, you’ll definitely be putting that to good use with all your baking!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:47 amFabulous! Fab-u-lous, both the friends and the results.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:49 amMan, the things we’ll put up with sometimes. How in the world did a baking fiend like yourself manage with that blasted oven? Good riddance!
yes! you do have some pretty amazing friends!! they did a great job!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:52 amCongrats Miss Kelli - Everything looks so nice. Hope you had a little time to relax and enjoy after all of the hard work
November 19th, 2007 at 11:48 amIt looks great! Plus, with such a nice neutral for the backdrop, you can always throw in punches of colors in other ways.
I like to keep my rooms neutral for just that reason.
Lucky girl too, such nice and fun friends. Congrats on the new stove and bed!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:20 pmLooks awesome! I too love the quilt - did your mom make it?
November 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pmI went on a house-sprucing rampage this weekend, too! Only now my house just looks passable. I’m impressed you added this to your already-long holiday to-do list.
I think you know I’ve recently been obsessed with HGTV, though after a lot of it this weekend it occurred to me that mostly all they do for a big effect is paint somebody’s white walls some intense color. Enough already! Your switch to white actually looks really clean and sharp.
Also, for a crafty person you are amazingly uncluttered. Is that a glass of wine in your ‘before’ picture? You get an early start!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pmWow..new bed, stove, fridge, and paint..Lucky girl..your house looks so nice, and you’ve got a lot of great friends!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pmWow, everything looks great!! Pizza, beer and good friends, seriously, what else could be better? Obviously I’ve fallen for those bribes before
November 19th, 2007 at 1:00 pmMan, I have long fingers.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm(and a cute husband! What?! I’m just saying….)
We had such a good time Kel. It was so fun to really have time to chat on Saturday. Thanks for motivating us to get our own house-painting rears in gear.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:41 pmIt looks great! Amazing what a little paint (and some friends) can do for a room. It looks so restful. And with a nice neutral backdrop like that you can swap accessories in and out as you please.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:15 pmThe farewell salute to the old stove cracks me up.
Kelli, it all looks wonderful. You do have the best friends ever, you warned them what was happening and they still came to help.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pmLooks like you had a great weekend.
Very nice indeed!! And Kelli, you must be a “kindred spirit” - I have that same IKEA bed in my bedroom. I left mine black to contrast with my aqua walls.
Enjoy your “new” home!
November 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pmEverything looks smashing! What lovely friends you have! (And with such cute bandanas too!)
November 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pmFeng Shui! Feng Yea! You know that such positive changes in your environment can indeed be magic!
November 19th, 2007 at 4:54 pmlove it!!! bravo to you and your supercool, handy-dandy friends!
November 19th, 2007 at 5:13 pmi love the new color, what a huge difference it makes. Painting the inside of the skylight was magical. The headboard, too, is great.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pmGorgeous Miss Kelli! What a lucky girl you are to have so many willing friends so close! Many hands make light work as my grandmother used to say. I, too, love your quilt. I am just learning quilting/sewing from a very wonderful woman. I dream of a day when I might produce something even CLOSE to that!
Enjoy your “new” place my friend.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pmEven your same quilt looks different with a new bed and new walls! And congrats on the new stove and fridge. You’re gonna wonder how you ever did anything with the old stuff.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:13 pmNow that’s Thanks-giving!
Hey K - AWESOME work. Looks fab. I particularly like the farewell to the oven.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:06 pmLooks great Kelli! You have awesome friends.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:02 pmWowza! Good painters, good appliances, but super friends! You’re so fortunate. Your place looks fantastic and I’m sure it feels so too.
I (well, really my husband, Charlie) just finished painting my sewing studio last week and it feels sooooo good! I’ll post about it soon. It went from bright yellow, that somehow I thought was the perfect color for a children’s playroom–ick, to ice blue, inspired by Blueprint. I think it’s kind of funny how you and I are in opposite paint color worlds.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:19 pmI can’t imagine you without wonderful friends. They did a beautiful job. You deserve it.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:25 amHow was the pizza and beer?
Um, can you send your friends over to my house? My place needs some SERIOUS painting.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:00 amAll your improvements really do look great.
It all looks lovely and fresh. As for the new stove - I can´t believe you baked all those goodies in the past with that old thing.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:30 amYou are PRODUCTIVE! Whohoo! Looks fantastic. Nice work.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:54 amYou are definately a rich lady with friends like yours:) Everything looks beautiful.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:30 amLOVE the new kitchen, it looks great. You have wonderful friends to come and help, lucky gal. Happy Thanksgiving Kelli.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:27 amLooks so nice and fresh!! Painting is like magic!
November 20th, 2007 at 11:51 amWow!!!
November 20th, 2007 at 2:41 pmPlease send your friends over to my house as well!
Not for nothing, Kelli, but I think you should GET BUSY in a different way with the Salty Senor. He is major cute, obviously handy, and enjoys some the same activities as you do.
I’m just sayin.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pmKelli, don’t you love that yellow. We have that in our house as well. It is a very uplifting color. We love it and I thing you will to. Take care and God bless, Cory
November 20th, 2007 at 7:36 pmIt looks like you guys had a blast!
November 21st, 2007 at 5:38 amGo Jacks!!
November 21st, 2007 at 8:02 amThat’s the same bed I’ve had my eye on! Only I’ll keep it black…I’m thinking khaki walls and we got a new deep red duvet cover…ohhh I’ve been inspired! Time to get out the handy husband!
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:03 amhi there kelli! i am so enjoying catching up here. i have missed your beautiful writing and inspiration!!
November 24th, 2007 at 10:02 amyour updated kitchen + bedroom look fantastic. hurrah for good friends helping you out… so much fun and it all looks so good. and yay for the new oven!!
xox
Love, love, love it - a beautiful kitchen and a beautiful bed fit for a princess (I’m sticking with the Cinderella theme:)
November 26th, 2007 at 9:06 pmWhat a wonderful blessing your friends bestowed upon you! It all looks fabulous and I know your heart is singing with the joy of it all.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:42 amLooks awesome. You deserve it. And what great friends. I’d say they are keepers.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:54 pm