Hello Bloggerland! I have been MIA for MONTHS now! Sorry about that. Our lives have been CRAZY this summer. Luke graduated from pharmacy school, we moved across the country, Luke now has a new job, and Isabelle starts kindergarten on Monday! I have not stopped on my projects, but had a hard time recording everything I did. I am going to do a quick update on what's been changing around here!
I believe I was in the kitchen when we were together last. The paint is done and I finished my pantry project! Here is a reminder or where we were and are how things are looking these days..
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The pantry had old liner in it and smelled like and old time log cabin..
I emptied it out, pulled out the paper, filled all the holes, primed, painted, and organized it...
I had plenty of room for all our food, serving dishes, spices, and paper products {paper towels, trash bags, plastic cups, etc}
Remember these?
They all got a little face lift and found a home on my coffee bar...
I used my fave, spray paint, to turn the wooden circle orange and the Merry Christmas platter got a blast of sunny yellow before making its way under my coffee maker.
I still have a few more things in the works for the kitchen and I promise to update faster now that I have a little free time available. Stayed tuned for the next saga, where we tackle the living room!
I could sing a song I'm so happy! I did it!! Remember my awesome floating cabinets??
Well, I hope you didn't think they were to awesome because they are GONE!!
I took them down all by myself {which I think I should get some sort of trophy or something for} and I am NOT sad to see them go :)
I have made a few more small changes, such as appliance placement and some added furniture, but have a few more projects in the works.
First up, refreshing the inside of this pantry..
Painting the outside of the kitchen door...
But I feel like things are finally moving along...
Before
Progress
I have been working on my spray paint obsession on sunny days. I started some projects a while back. You can revisit here. Here are the results of those babies.
I found a few other goodies on a quick trip to Goodwill that I have ideas for..
It will more than likely include spray paint...I think I have a problem...Do they have a 1800 number I can call...whoever they are?
I recently posted about some changes I made in the living room. I did a little revamping on a hand me down lamp {thanks Alan and Anna Lou} and a Goodwill bargain lamp. Both were brass, ick and reeked of the 80's.
I chose my favorite method for quick face lifts, spray paint! I usually wind up spray painting most things I own {you can see some past projects here, and here} so these lamps were no exception. I went with a nickel finish Krylon brand spray paint.
I scuffed them up a tad and then gave them a solid coat, then left them to dry over night.
I took them outside the next day and gave them another coat and found a few other things to paint while I was at it.
I found this urnish vase in my moms garage.
And this mail sorter in the leftovers of the daycare.
Your going to have to come back if you want to see how those turned out, but for now...here are my lamps!
I found these simple shades for both of them {although I may have to add a little something to them :)} The table lamp will stay in the livingroom for now, but we are lamp poor at the moment so I doubt this baby will last long in its current home.
