Faux Wainscoting

Have you ever felt like you need a vacation from a vacation?  Well, I do........and I think Heidi would agree with me!  Vegas was a non relaxing vacation.  BUT it was all worth it as it was full of fun, excitement and most of all memorable :-)  We had lots of belly laughs, good food, lots of exercise, used lots of band aids and one of us was even left with a watermelon size bruise.  I even made a new friend-Mary who I cant wait to hang out with again with! 

While my family missed me and I was having fun, my mind was still going non stop..............new projects!  I knew I wanted to do this before I left, and so happened that we had a lot of rain when we were gone so the hubs has been home.  I dug into this project right away.

Yes, I know......my house is brand new, what could I be doing to it now...{i can think of many things, ha ha}  My dining room is connected with my kitchen to a big open room.  I some how really wanted to break it apart {of course without a wall} so it looked like a real dinning room.  Faux Wainscoting it was.  I had to sketch out the measurements before tackling the project, but all in all I think it worked out well.  We have 9 ft ceilings and crown molding, so I went a little higher then a 1/3 up the wall for the chain rail board, then we just made our own "fake picture frames" {as I call them} and evenly spaced them together.  Yes, my poor fingers hurt from caulking everything!!! 

Here's what my dinning room looked before:

And here's what 2 days took me to do:

And yes, Jenn......still no curtains :-)  Everyone thinks we are weird for not having any kind of window treatment on any of our windows!  We have a beautiful view of the woods; I hate covering it!

I actually had my husband start a similar project today in our mud room.  This one will take a while as I haven't quite figured out exactly what I want to do.  I know it will be the board and batten though :-)  You will have to check back soon to see.

I hope all you mommas have a great Mother's Day Weekend!  This is my first mommies day, and I'm spending it planting all my flowers which I love to do!!!!!!  Oh, and our new water fountain!  Pictures coming soon.