New Patio Door

Before the recent storm we decided to get a new patio door. The old door was starting to rot on the bottom on the outside and Chloe was chewing it up.

There is so much sun coming through that side of the house and it really heats things up in here. We decided to get doors that have blinds between the glass.

Yesterday the carpenter came to install my new door. I chose a french door.

Here are the before and afters.

You can see in this picture above the beautiful tree in bloom. This is one of the two trees we lost in the recent storm. The walls look yellow, but they are actually Malted Milk. This is the old back door.

This is another view before we put the new baseboard on. You can read more about the baseboard job here.

And these three below are the after pictures. You can see the new baseboard and I have the blinds down in the last picture.

This is just a before and after, side by side to see it better.

Now to get rid of the vertical blinds on the windows and make my roman shades and I'll be a happy camper. 

My New Baseboards

I thought I would share a couple pictures of my baseboards. I found a wonderful tip on Pinterest on how to make your baseboards appear taller using paint and trim, so I thought I would give it a try. Here is my inspiration.

Here is a before picture.

These walls need help.

I decided to add corner blocks to my baseboards for a little extra. And here is the after (sorry it's a different wall).

The wall color is Malted Milk and the baseboards are a semi-gloss white. This wall will have my piano on it and it will hide that ugly phone jack, although I guess I could change it out.

I will post a picture of the whole room when it is finished.