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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I don’t have any closet progress to show today because, again, yesterday was a holiday in the U.S., and I took the day off. But now that the long three-day holiday weekend is over, I’ll get back to building the walk-in closet island today. But in the meantime, I want to ask that you participate in this thought experiment. I’m asking for your feedback on this simply out of sheer curiosity and not in an effort to shame anyone or anything like that.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
Well, I didn’t get a single thing done in my walk-in closet this weekend. It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S., and for a change, I put absolutely no pressure on myself to get things done, and I did so with zero guilt. I spent my weekend sitting at my desk in the studio (my favorite place in our house) updating the house tour page on my blog. So if you want see all of the befores and afters of every room in our house in one place, or get paint color info, you can check out that page.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I started out working on smaller projects for the walk-in closet yesterday, but about 5:30, I decided that I’d much rather start building the island. So I headed to Home Depot to pick up everything I needed for that project. Needless to say, once I got home with all of those supplies, I didn’t have much time to work, but my main goal was to get the basic box built, attach the feet, and put it into place so that I could get an idea of what this room will look like with an island.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I had an unexpected thing happen on Facebook a few days ago. Some of you may not know that I have an Addicted 2 Decorating Facebook page where I mostly just share my latest blog posts, but I also try to add a few additional posts throughout the week. It may be a throwback to an old project, a random picture of a room in our home, or something else.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
Are y’all as tired of this walk-in closet project as I am? I’m so proud of how this closet is turning out, but at the same time, I’m so ready to be done with it and move on. Doing a project of this scale by myself always takes longer than I think it’s going to take at the outset, and I always find myself getting frustrated and anxious to move on when I start to see the finish line. And that’s where I am today.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
Do you ever have those days when you don’t have anything planned or required of you that will divide your attention from your tasks at hand? You wake up that day and you think to yourself, “This is going to be such a productive day! I’m going to get so much done today!” And then at the end of the day, you’re wondering, “What the heck happened? How did I get so little accomplished today?“Yeah. That was my day yesterday. I had what I thought was going to be a full, uninterrupted work day.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I have to admit that I didn’t get much actual work on the closet done this past weekend. I needed some rest to gear up for the work that needs to be done this week — installing the rest of the molding and trim, moving the washer and dryer into the room, and starting the build for the island. I did get the inside of the washer and dryer cabinets painted, though.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I spent yesterday afternoon and evening doing the project I’ve been anxiously anticipating for a while now. I go the wallpaper up on the window wall and above the washer and dryer cabinets! This single project transformed the room more than any other single project, and I absolutely love how it looks. I’m so glad that I decided to use wallpaper on these areas instead of the tile that I had originally considered!The wallpaper I used is this Taylor wallpaper from Jupiter10.
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
The floors in our master bedroom suite are finished, and I couldn’t be happier with the result! Our floors are red oak (this part of the house has new red oak floors), and I finished them with Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD in an extra matte finish. After sanding the floors starting with 36-grit, and then moving to 60-grit, 80-grit, and finishing with 100-grit, I did one coat of Bona Natural Seal (which I purchased here — affiliate link).
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1 month ago | 
addicted2decorating.com | Kristi Linauer
I’m still not quite finished with the floors in our bedroom suite, but I’m one step closer to having them finished. And I’m so excited with how they’re turning out! Since I agonized over my decision about what to use on my red oak hardwood floors and how to finish them to get a natural look, I wanted to show y’all what the floors look like as of this morning after using the Bona Natural Seal on them last night before I went to bed. First, let me back up a bit and explain the whole process.
