House Project | Out with the Gold & Gaudy

I am so so so thrilled to say that my two-day project is finally done! I'm even more thrilled to say that I did it all alone!!! Well, with the help of a toddler but does that really count?

I have been dying to cross some things off of my house to-do wish list and little by little we are getting there. Many of the projects are so minor that they don't feel like I accomplished anything (ahem - filling nail holes... boring!) so this time I was ready for a serious face-lift project! 

Replacing allllllll of the gaudy, nasty, hideous, eye-sore of hardware throughout the house. I mean seriously, when was that "in"? 

I researched and compared prices online (Amazon and Home Depot) and ended up ordering the majority of what we needed online. Amazon Prime for the win! I got to work yesterday while the girls napped and just finished today. Seriously when you give a girl the OK to do a project and the tools to do it nothin' can stop her! 

The look of my house completely changed! I loooooooove it!!!! I can't believe we didn't do this sooner. We literally only spent a small amount compared to what we thought we would have spent. You can't beat it, for under $200 our house looks totally amazing.

It was a lot of tedious, annoying work but it wasn't too bad. Overall I probably spent 4-6 hours doing it all. 

Things I learned during this DIY project:

- old homeowners suck

- old homeowners do things half-ass (like drilling out door hinges properly!)

- my drill parts are magnetic!

- the torque settings... I had no clue what those numbers were and why they were there but I've now mastered google searches and the torque settings on the drill. 

- it's really hard to put hinges on the door before the door frame... Don't do that! Door frame then door. Always. 

- don't unscrew all the hinges at once, that obviously takes the whole door off and it's reallllllly hard, like nearly impossible hard to put the door back on alone. But, I did it! 

- door stoppers are so weird

- gold is hideous

The end! Now come over and see it, and have a beer with me. All this hard work deserves one, or two...