Kiss My Brass

Phew! If y'all only knew the dedication this room is taking now! We're down to the knitty gritty in the den.  These are all the things that you don't think about when you start to redo a room.  Things like this:

 It's these little diddys that are so simple yet so time consuming to change! Here are some updated photos of our amazing den transformation:

(Ignore the broken shoe molding-- it was a casualty of removing the old register..)

This is my new favorite invention! All the outlets were a completely wrong cream color.. these outlet covers saved us so much time! All you do is screw it in over the exiting outlet.  They fit like a glove! Well worth a little extra money!

Painted brick!

We also changed out all the light switches.  We thought we knew what we were doing and went and bought two 2-way switches and two 3-way switches, but it turned out there was another random switch that had never worked before that also did the same light (which made the three of them 4-ways, ahhh!!). Brent got some great help at Home Depot (fondly known in our house now as "The Deep") on how to tell what's what.  I never knew these terms would be in my vocabulary! All the light switches work perfectly now which is a good thing because...drum roll please... remember this guy??

So gross.

We did one of my LEAST favorite things.. changed out the awful brass track light! It was (surprise..) full of dust and spider webs.  We debated about what to replace it with and decided on another track light (the electrical is all over on one side, so a normal over-head light was not a great option).  Why is this process always so much harder than you think it will be? But, as always, the end result was so worth it!

 We really hope to have this room completely done soon.  I am really anxious to get the fireplace doors back on, and we can't forget to paint the built-in doors and the actual doors.  Stay tuned for more later!