decorating – Chad's Crooked House

Can Mirrors Solve All Our Problems?

March 23, 2020

So you saw the headboard I bought in the back bedroom before, but since it’s been so long I’ll show you again. I bought it from a small-time dealer. She messaged me later that she had a mirror that matched it, and she had stuff piling up enough that she was giving it away to…
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Front Bedroom: One Room Challenge, Week 1

October 3, 2019

For anyone who is new to this blog, welcome! I’m excited to participate in the One Room Challenge for my first and (in this house) last time. So far, I’ve been more of a tear the whole house apart and live in chaos and filth for years kind of a guy. The front bedroom is…
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Start with the rug

May 14, 2019

My mom told me that she did this wrong. She got rugs last and then scrupulously searched for rugs whose every hint of color matched what was already in the room. Worse, she roped me into helping with this. So I’ve thought the bedroom needed a rug, and it seems like a good place to…
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The Front Bedroom, Where Decorating Inspiration Goes to Die

April 14, 2019

When I finished “Phase 1,” every room except the back bedroom (which I finished to rent) needed a little something done to it, but the front bedroom needed the most. So now that the shutters are progressing at a glacial pace, it seems like a good time to go over it. So, from the beginnning:…
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4th Anniversary Tour – Back Bedroom

February 26, 2017

The back bedroom, oh my. At the start it was tiny, the floor had a terrible slant (normally I’m okay with crooked floors but this was too much), and the closet was once again 12 inches deep. Let’s not forget the horror story of the wall behind the radiator. Whoever did this can’t have been…
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The Bookcases Are Looking Like Something

June 21, 2016

I wasted no time getting them set up – doors back on and books in the house. Now it looks like someone lives here, in a non-messy way. At least at this corner. Then as soon as I got it looking like this I took everything out of the base cabinets and drilled about 10…
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Let’s talk about paint colors – downstairs

March 4, 2015

You already saw ideas I have about paint colors upstairs and how I plan on painting the trim throughout the house. Downstairs I have 3 more spaces to figure out what to do with. But first I wanted to clarify the color of the marble in the front bedroom. It’s more brown than pink. This…
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Let’s talk about paint colors – starting upstairs

February 28, 2015

All of them! The truth is, I have little idea of what I want. I could stick with white walls. Sometimes that looks great. But I kind of don’t want my house to look like it was rehabbed on spec. I think I want a slightly subdued off white on my ceilings and trim. Not quite the bright…
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