Hey you people,
and welcome to a brand new series of Canadian Parinday.
We’ve recently started doing some home DIY projects at our place
and we’re very excited to share with you guys-
How we do it?
So, we gonna name this series as
Home DIYs.
So, without further ado
let’s take you to our very first project number one.
So, I was responsible for painting the wall
and trust me guys
you don’t have to be an artist to paint the wall.
All ready.
Are you ready?
The first thing I started with,
is to put a peintres tape along the edges of the wall
just to avoid any paint spills on the existing molding or
even on the carpet.
So. like any other project that we start,
I love to dig into Pinterest
and come up with my five favorite options.
I find Pinterest as a great place to start your research
because you get to see so many options over there.
And for me,
I personally like going through Youtube
because in Youtube, you not only see the project
but you can also see whether it is
Difficult,
What are the challenges?
What are the problems?
So,
I select my top five options
and then after, we sit down and discuss those.
For the other two walls in our room,
we decided to go for the white color.
So that black wall will be more prominent
and will popup more.
For that,
I just simply painted the wall with smooth roller
and once it dried up,
I painted back and put on the second coat
just to bring that extra smooth coverage.
The first rule of painting is-
Don’t be afraid of errors.
There are few mistakes you may do it.
Like I got the paint on this baseboard.
But who cares,
I got lots of baby wipes to help that.
So, How many of you guys have a room for your office,
but, it’s like plain walls with a chair
with a table and you know
a boring light.
That’s what we have too.
So then It comes as a motivation for us.
We wanna make our office room nice,
looks nice,
nice walls,
try out different,
So that we would love to go and sit in that room.
So, once Richi and Arshya was done with the painting,
What we did is,
we have to measure the wall
just to cut the wallpaper to exact length
and this was the very important step.
In our experience,
When we were looking to houses,
we figured out one thing-
When you do lots of renovations and DIYs in your home,
it doesn’t only look nice, pretty
but,
it also helps you appreciating the value of the house
when you want to sell it.
As we really don’t wanted to show any joints,
we decided
to rather put the wallpaper horizontally
and believe me
it was not as easy as expected.
But to make it little easy,
what we did is,
we used a glue
and put it directly on the wall
Instead of the wallpaper
That did really helped us at that time.
And then after a little hustle and movement
and here n there and up n down
we were finally able to put it up to the wall.
Arshi.
Arshi, Do you like it?
So, in order to match the exact color of the wallpaper,
we took the sample of wallpaper,
took it to Home Depot,
then matched it to the system
and there
they got us the exact same color.
So guys,
to save money on paint,
instead of going for the small container (24 ounces) for like $30
we decided to go for the sample
($5 each) and we picked up four.
So,
yeah,
we saved $10.
We have asked you guys on our Instagram stories that
What color do you think will go best with this wallpaper?
And many of you guys have agreed with our choice
We felt great that we made a right choice.
I have so many projects on our plate right now
designing wardrobe,
setting up Arshya’s room according to Montessori,
redoing our bathroom,
Or even setting up the luxury fireplace in our living room.
So, if you are anywhere close to us
who loves to do home renovation
by themselves and under the budget,
don’t forget to subscribe to our channel.
You won’t be disappointed.
So, if you have small kids around you while you are painting
make sure it’s gonna take double the time
be prepared,
because all they want to do is paint the wall with you
and not even with the brush
they rather want to use their fingers.
Arshi, What color is that?
That’s black.
Black.
So, While we were at the home depot,
we also picked up moldings for wainscoating.
What we did is,
we picked up the longest length possible,
but we didn’t realised that it was not easy to put up in the car
along with the car seat.
Exactly.
But we did manage and bring it home.
I love wainscoating!
All you need to do is
measure correctly
and then cut it,
and then put it,
and measure again
and cut it,
and put it.
And that’s the process go on
and on and on.
Instead of using a nail gun,
what I did is,
we put up the screws into corners
and put a gorilla glue in between.
That really avoids the after work of filling the holes.
That’s the trick I followed.
Some people like to use nail gun,
and it’s your choice.
As the wall was coming along
I was still feeling it’s incomplete without actually decorating the wall
and for that
I really don’t want to rip off the wallpaper
just to hang something on it.
Because that’s not gonna give you a flexibility of
replacing the decor items
over and over.
So, after lots of hustle and tussle over that,
we finally decided to put a picture railing on top of it,
that gave me room to put all the decorative items there.
And to give that railing an extra support
we put
quarter-inch round molding underneath.
I really wanted to have one accent wall of black in our home
and because this room has lots and lots of sunlight,
this would be the perfect place to have one decent big accent black wall.
While I made sure that all the moldings are properly attached and aligned
Richi started painting those "Bad Boys" black.
And wallah
the moment of *****
it looks so amazing
especially that picture railing,
that’s are the nice addition to our ******* coating.
See, I told you-
It’s gonna look nice.
You’re always right.
As you guys probably know
we have bought a new house from a builder.
Now the new construction house may seem very lucrative
very nice, but trust us
it comes with lots and lots of work.
So like any other couple,
that was our argue number one
before actually starting this project.
So, for all these three ingredients
with black color
wallpaper and wainscoating.
We combined it and made it our own fusion recipe.
Which, by the way, turned out to be really very yummy.
This project is not over yet
unless we actually decorate this wall.
So for now,
I just have put couple of things
that I found within my home.
Guys help us here,
Would you think
I should put on this wall
maybe a big plant
Or maybe a long painting?
Throw your ideas
help us know.
How we can decorate this wall well?