When I was younger my dream home would have been a converted old church. You enter into the foyer and then it opens up into a large living room. Bed rooms and other small rooms off the the left and right. Of course keep all the stained glass. :D

Now my dream home if I won the lottery, would be to have several modest houses all over the place! One in the West, one in south FL of course ;), maybe one in the Caribbean.... :D

Love it!! You did *such* a great job w/ the island - so nice! That really added so much more dimension and everything. And great choice on the tile for the fireplace - looks so much better!

Your kitchen looks great, Ann!

I am loving this thread. Reminds me that I need to update my blog... We have been doing so much around our house. We have a 102 year old Craftsman bungalow and we are working on the original woodwork right now. We have awesome box beam ceilings and they were painted and textured by the previous owner (the horror!!). We have stripped them down and are staining them a dark walnut color.

Pictures in order:
Before, purplish paint with texture
During, partially stripped
During, scraping the ceiling and stripped woodwork
After (before poly), stained woodwork

Omg I love beamed ceilings! Why would anyone paint over them?!

I know! It was the spray texture that really got me. Really, texture?! :thumbdown

Spray paint works. We bought vents to match the color of our wood floors. Our house has all original wood floors and we chose to stain them a dark walnut color. Here is one of our vents:

Found a super cool Industrial Chic pinterest board: industrial furniture. on Pinterest

Meant to also say: Priscilla -- there are some cool piccies on this board I especially think you'd like...some stuff made of chain etcetera. There is this table that is completely made of machine parts that is so cool! It looks so organic, though it's all metal and twisty.

I ordered a hand made Farm Table for a local craftsman called Fore The Love of Wood. I am so excited, the wait is 7 weeks but that gives me plenty of time to obsess over what I want as far as paint and stain.

Here is his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fore-...39467106074533

Oh man someday I will have a factory cart! A real one! None of those flimsy plastic wheels. And I love that drafting table! Mine looks so plain in comparison.

The pipe bookshelves is something I've had pinned for awhile. Finally starting to think about my work room, so I think I will put some of those in. Ann, you made the dog bed with the pipes. Did you use a circular saw or what to cut the pipes down? We don't have one so I don't want to spend the money on an expensive saw. But maybe we will get some more use out of it in the future?

Lol...had to chuckle at the "plenty of time to obsess"....Hello Me Too...that would be SO me :D. LOVE his stuff!!! His use of chunky wood, the stains, the clean/plain square lines of his pieces. Adore it! Particularly like this stain, whatever it is called: https://www.facebook.com/73946710607...type=1&theater

YES, that drafting table!! KNEW you'd see that and love it. It's so cool and the hardware is just awesome.

I love the pipe fitting shelves, I want them so badly too...but just can't see to get to taking it on yet (nor do I know where I'd do it). For the dog bed, we luckily found pieces that were ready-made for the right size, so we didn't have to cut them. I *think*, though, that many hardware stores will cut them to the right size for you...? So if you could draw up your plans and cuts ahead of time, you may be able to have them pre-cut.. I asked my husband about using a circular saw or rip saw, and he said you'd need a special blade for cutting through this kind of pipe, and he too said the hardware store will often be able to cut it. I have some tutorials pinned too, so I'll look at them again and see if they say anything about the cuts.

Where do you think you'll do it, the kitchen? That's where I'd really love it...though I'd love it anywhere!

Priscilla - I checked the tutorials I have and it looks / seems like they all worked with ready-made pre-cut pipes. The other thing that made me wonder is that if you have to cut them, you'll lose the threading on one end, so I wonder what you'd do then....maybe it'd still be fine to use a pipe fitting connector bc the tension would hold it in place...?

I don't know if I shared this bar cart from pipe - omg - LOVE: Life: Designed: DIY Pipe Bar Cart | Projects, Tip, DIY | Pinterest

Wow we have some really talented folks here with great taste! I have to get a new van so no house redoing this year!

I never even realized the ends were threaded. Never went into that section of Home Depot before! LOL I think I would put it in my work room bc bf isn't as in love with the industrial style as I am. My workroom (in my head so far) will be mostly Victorian with some industrial elements thrown in. I finally decided what colors I will do the walls. Flat burgundy and semi gloss light tan stripes. Also thinking about doing the burgundy not as wide as the tan, maybe 6 or 8" wide, and have the tan wider, but then have like a 1" thin stripe going down the sides of the tan, if that makes sense. Then would love to put in wainscoting or at the very least a chair rail. Don't know what to do with the ceiling yet though. Paint it matching tan perhaps? or may leave white bc I'm leaving the baseboards white. Hopefully I will do a mock up soon of the stripes and decide how wide I will do.

Also we went to the consignment store last night and totally scored on these two lamps. They were $79 for BOTH and they still had tags on them that said the shades are handmade in the USA.

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His stuff is gorgeous! One of my neighbors has a farmhouse table he created. The craftsmanship is amazing. When I win the lottery, I have a whole list of things I want to get from him.