Kitchen and Dining Beadboard Installation Progress

Hi, everyone! How are you today? We are enjoying some nice warm weather here in these parts, but I'm wondering how long it's going to last? I'm itching to start attempting to spruce up our landscaping beds, but I know better to plant anything this early despite how beautiful and cheap the red tulips are now at Home Depot!

On Friday night, we finally purchased all the materials we've been needing to tackle some major projects, namely beadboard wainscoting! Our plans for Saturday were to build the faux fireplace in the dining room and get the beadboard and trimwork installed.

But you know how plans go. We had forgotten that we needed to first do some electrical work in the dining room. There was no convenient outlet in there so hubs spent part of the morning running wire for the new outlet. Pretty, eh?


But then, just as soon as we got started on the beadboard installation, we discovered that the hardware store cut most of our beadboard sheets wrong {we just needed them cut exactly in half}. The result was some halves were too short and some were too long, so back to Home Depot they went. That ate a good chunk of our work time, but we were able to get a little finished. The photo below is a completed area around our fridge. The back dining room wall is where the faux fireplace will go, but the entire room will be "beadboarded".


Below is where we left off - the other side of the wall in the photo above. So when this Saturday rolls around, we hope to get even more beadboard added. I've waited for beadboard for so long and I can hardly wait!


Until then, I'm going to try to make this piece of art work for our home by transforming it into something completely different. My secret ingredient? Fingernail polish remover! If it turns out, I'll be sure to share...and if doesn't, you'll be the first to know!