One Broke Girl and the DIY demon

The Kitchen Window Series (It's a soap opera, really) - part 7

I'm sorry I left you for such a long time since part 6 magically published itself as I was taking some time off with my best friend from kindergarten... We celebrated our thirty year long friendship by wandering around the cottage in some beautiful places and I took tons of pictures that I'll share every now an then with you in the next months.

Je suis navrée de vous avoir abandonné depuis que la 6ème partie de cette série a été publiée. J'ai passé une semaine à visiter les lieux magnifiques situés aux alentours du cottage avec mon amie de maternelle. On fêtait tout de même 30 ans d'amitié... J'ai pris plein de photos et je vous emmènerai bientôt visiter avec moi!

So can you believe me if I tell you I have one more kitchen window project to share with you today? If you can't stand it anymore, please, feel free to walk away and come back here on September 1st!

Bon, vous n'allez pas me croire, mais j'ai encore un projet lié à ma fenêtre de cuisine à vous montrer. Si vous n'en pouvez plus, revenez après le 1er septembre!

After the kitchen was properly insulated, the window frame looked like that.

Après  avoir isolé la cuisine, l'encadrement de fenêtre, c'était ça.

I knew I wanted to paint that part of the walls white because I thought it would made sense with the light coming in. But as much as I love white, I thought it could be boring.

Je savais que je voulais peindre l'encadrement en blanc pour des questions de luminosité, mais tout blanc, ne serait-ce pas un peu ennuyeux?

My dream would have been to have pretty molding or even inside shutters.

Via House To Home

Je rêvais de moulures ou mieux de volets intérieurs, mais les devis étaient ridiculement élevés, surtout quand, comme moi, on n'a toujours pas de cuisine!

I had quotes done by the carpenter... But it was ridiculously expensive and the kind of money a cottage girl who still doesn't have a kitchen can't spend.

Via House To Home

Now, as much as I drool over each DIY project I can see on blogland, I must confess I'm not a DIY kind of girl. I'm the clumsiest person on Earth and I'm pretty sure you've noticed it as my adventures seems to amuse most of you.

Maintenant, je dois vous avouer que autant je bave devant les réalisations de toutes les blogueuses,  autant, moi, je ne suis pas bricoleuse, plutôt super maladroite.

But somehow, at some point, I thought, "maybe I can try and do something on my own" and I bought some moulding... That stayed in my dining-room for a while because I was too frightened to mess things up.

Pourtant, à un moment, je me suis dit que si je voulais une jolie fenêtre et ne pas dépenser trop, il allait falloir que j'utilise un peu mes muscles.

Then, suddenly, the DIY demon took posession of me and here I was on the patio with my saw.

J'ai donc acheté des petites moulures, je me suis installée sur la terrasse avec ma petite scie et voilà!

And so here's what I managed to do.

I then primed and painted, using the same All White by Farrow and Ball I used on the window and on the beamed ceiling. I'm sorry some pictures don't show a perfect kitchen, since I don't have one!

Quelques couches du même blanc All White de Farrow and Ball que celui utilisé sur la fenêtre et sur le plafond et voilà!

I am well aware that as far as DIY blogging is concerned, this is pretty basic, but for the DIY beginner I am, it's huge. It gives me a little shaky confidence for other projects.

La fierté que j'éprouve est absolument disproportionnée... Mais c'était mon premier sciage de moulures de toute ma vie!!!

Oups, I hadn't noticed until I marked the picture that the marshmallow cloche had disappeared when I took this one! My BFF is a marshmallow fan and had probably "stolen" it before I snapped that one with the evening sunlight!

So, what do you think? Am I graduating for DIY kindergarten-level?

Alors qu'en pensez-vous? Je suis validée pour le bricolage niveau maternelle?

See you soon,

A bientôt,

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