White Butterfly

Saying Goodbye for….awhile.

March 13, 2013 By admin

It’s been a long run. I’ve been blogging since November 2007. I started by writing family bits and pieces. It eventually turned into some furniture bits and pieces and evolved into this tremendously wonderful thing where I shared our life with all of you. I have had more positive comments and feel good messages than I can remember. I can only remember one nasty comment. Isn’t it too bad that I remember the one nasty comment?! It has been a fun adventure. I know, you are all sad and you are starting to cry. Don’t cry. I’m not that cool.

Sometimes I get recognized when I am out and about. That’s always fun! Still. Not that cool. But in the past few months, with moving and having a million boys running around, it hasn’t been fun. It’s become a bit of a chore. And not a fun chore, like laundry. Wait, what? Laundry isn’t fun. Maybe it got to be like laundry…..

I am not quitting. I am retiring. My first retirement. I may come out of retirement at a later date. People do it all the time, right?!

WHITE BUTTERFLY FURNITURE will still continue. You will just have to find me on Facebook and in local occasional shops. Maybe one day I’ll have a shop of my own!

For now, I am going to relax. Right. Relax. I am going to enjoy a few projects without having to worry about the crappy pictures I take and spend some quality time with my family.

I guarantee though, this isn’t the last you’ll see of me. So, if you follow here, and still want to know what is going on in our world, go to https://www.facebook.com/WhiteButterflyFurniture, I’m also still on Instagram @kirstythor and Pinterest (Kirsten Thor) and Twitter @kirstythor. You’ll be able to see lots of bits of our projects and lives!

I’m fairly certain that you won’t be able to access this website after we shut her down. So, if you’ve been holding onto something that you’d like to say, better get it out now! Good or bad. Just say it in the comments!

Until the next time….

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Gretta – White Butterfly Furniture

March 11, 2013 By admin

28h x 29 1/2w x 14 1/2d

$125

Filed Under: Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, cabinet, White Butterfly

Bathroom Barn Door

March 5, 2013 By admin

This might be my favorite project to date…

Our half bath in the mudroom is teeny tiny. You may remember that I recently painted the entire thing in chalkboard paint and then trimmed it with some fancy schmancy moulding. First, I caulked all the moulding and it looks great! Second, the door is always in the way. Always.

Tom wanted to put in a pocket door, I wanted a barn door….my fix did not include ripping down a brand new wall and rebuilding it…guess who won?! However, I wanted to do the pipe with eye hooks method and he wanted a quieter method that included a barn door track….guess where we spent Saturday night looking at barn track?! Fleet Farm!

My friend Aimee from The Vintage Estate (we’re totally friends now, right Aimee?!) had a door sitting in her garage and it was perfect for this little project. Thanks for the door Aimee!

Isn’t it fabulous?!

It’s actually quite simple to install, but our process was a little more elaborate, as it would be. Because it’s us. You attach the wheel brackets to the door:

Then the track to the wall:

There’s some math and cutting involved, but it’s pretty straightforward. Cut the track the length you want it, find the studs, attach the brackets and the track, attach the door and adjust the door height as needed with the bolts and nuts provided.

We needed to make sure that the door would be out away from the trim, so we added the trim right away and then put a long piece of header trim on the top to support the track.

We needed to hang the brackets a little higher then the trim so we put some pieces above that fixed that problem.

I’m thinking about extending all the pieces to make it look like board and batten. We’ll see.

Our bathroom is pretty tiny, so we had to attach the brackets to the track and then hang the bracket and track. If you have enough room, you could hang the brackets then slide the track through.

Then all you have to do is attach the door. We had to put the wheels on the track then attach the door to those, as we don’t have enough room on either end to slide it in. No big deal though!

I’m going to finish up the baseboard trim in here and we’ll have one room finished!

I absolutely love it. It is perfect for this space and brings in the much needed light into this bathroom, it gives the area some character and is just plain fun.

That is all. Happy day.

Filed Under: Bathroom, DIY, House

Little built in desk

March 4, 2013 By admin

We have this spot in our kitchen next to the fridge that is pretty much wasted space and I was trying to think of something fun to do with the area.

I had the egg brooder there, but one day my FIL opened it and had to do some fancy footwork to catch it and a glass bottle of Old Crow (the only Whiskey allowed in our house). So the egg brooder needed to find a new home in another part of our home.

I skim several blogs and last week I saw that Decor Chick put a little desk in her kitchen when they added their new counters and such, so I thought that would be perfect for our little spot!

You can see the brooder over by the fridge….

I was going to pick up some oak butcher block from Ikea to match the rest of the counters, but when I got there, I was walking around and happened to see a desktop that was butcher block but in beech…but get this it was only $60 instead of $129. Wrap it up, I’ll take it.

It sat for all of one day before I decided to take matters into my own hands and cut the piece and router it myself. I watched Tom router the other counters and was pretty sure I could figure it out on my own. People often ask how I have the nerve to do it. All I can say is: you can’t be afraid to make a mistake, you can’t be afraid of power tools and you can’t be afraid to get dirty.

Always wear your eye protection people. If you want a small tutorial on routering, go here.

I grabbed some L-brackets from Ikea to put the table top on, that was the hardest part of the whole project! The holes weren’t lining up properly and so I had to re-drill the holes.

Please use a level and make sure everything is level and square. You will be a much happier person if you do. I added a few pieces of 1×2 to make sure there was enough support for the top.

We also had to notch out a tiny little piece of the table top because of the trim on the refrigerator wall. In addition to attaching the top to the L-brackets, we also attached the top to the fridge wall. Just for some extra support.

Apparently I have some paint touch up to do.

I’m going to drill a hole in the back for cords and such. Hopefully it gets used as a homework and drawing station and not a “collecting all the crap” station! I absolutely love it. And I loved routering! It was so fun. Except for the wood shavings on my clothes and in my hair and mouth and stuff, but small price to pay…

Happy Monday!