Marilyn Fenn Decor

Building a Simple Storage Shelf

Published May 12, 2014

I keep lots of large cardboard boxes and styrofoam on hand for when I need to ship my paintings. I decided I needed a simple shelf for containing the large cardboard.

So I rummaged through some of our wood…

New Mirror and Light Fixture for the Main Bathroom

Published May 9, 2014

OK, next project. I have always hated this brass light fixture, and I don’t know why it never occurred to me that we could just go ahead and replace it at any time. So now is the time.…

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Added Crown Molding to the Main Bathroom

Published May 6, 2014

So, I decided to go ahead and keep working on this bathroom. My next task was to install crown molding. I couldn’t have known in advance how many things could possibly go wrong.

First of all, my crown…

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Building a Pilaster in the Bathroom

Published April 26, 2014

I decided to add a pilaster between the green and the blue colors to visually enhance the separation of the tub area from the rest of the bathroom. I’d like to make it more pronounced and add a…

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Done Painting the Main Bathroom!

Published April 21, 2014

Whew! Each room seems to present its own challenges, and for this bathroom, it was mostly just trying to reach places above and behind the tub and toilet. But I love how these two colors work together, and…

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Painting the Main Bathroom

Published April 18, 2014

After 12 years in this house, I’ve decided THIS is the year I finish painting all the rooms. I painted 4.75 of them several years ago (missed one wall of the small bathroom, for reasons too complicated to mention);…

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Painting the Laundry Room and Installing Trim

Published April 8, 2014

I am finally priming and painting the laundry room after 12 years! It took about a week to prime and paint the walls and 3 doors and 5 sets of door casing. Also in that time,…

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A Little Patio for My Potting Bench

Published April 3, 2014

My hubby built a little patio for me this weekend! A little span where I can put my potting bench, pots, and a garden bench. I’m really glad he took this project over. It took me several…

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Repainted the Outside of the Storage Room

Published March 13, 2014

Wow, our storage room’s outside sure got super dirty in the past 3 years. I tried scrubbing it clean, but that wasn’t working. I suppose we ought to invest in a little pressure washer. But, we don’t…

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Building Carriage Doors

Published March 11, 2014

We celebrated our 12th house-iversary by…working on the house! We’re building new carriage doors for the garage. OMG, they’re gonna be bEAUtiful! You can buy custom-designed and custom-size carriage doors–for a small fortune, and idk how…

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Working late into the night

“I say I got the misery and the back ache baby And my feets hurtin’ me when I walk”

from Taj Mahal, “Good Morning Miss Brown” (listen here)

Me, after 13 hours working…

Published February 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

Creating Dividers for an Art Storage Cart

Published December 31, 2013

OK, this was super easy-peasy. I cut 1/8″ plywood to the correct height and width to fit in my art storage cart, then again using the circular saw, cut a double-kerf slot halfway up the middle of one…

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