Summertime is Painting Time

Remember that one time I bought a pretty ugly dresser on KSL, brought it home and painted it but forgot to take a before picture?

(I swear that I took a picture, even one of me priming the dumb thing, but I can not find it anywhere)

The gist of the story is that the dress looked a lot like this.

Woodish, ornate, big heavy handles, and cheap, because no one knows what to do with these things. That is, until I come along and want to snatch up that ugly dresser like it is nobodies business. I even drove the 40 minutes one way to pick it up.

I knew exactly how I wanted to paint it, I just had to wait until we had space to do it.

I feel like the reveal pictures are very anti climactic without a before picture. Sigh...oh well.

This dresser is going to live in the boys room. It may be the first step in actually, one day, making their room not suck. 

Anymore, when I spot something...a little on the ugly side...and say that "I want it", Blake doesn't argue. I am not sure if it is because he trusts me...or because he realizes that he is fighting a loosing battle. Either way, for me it is a win.

With the weather getting warmer I am now able to spray paint things outside. Quite possibly one of my favorite quick fixes.

We have a very large patio on the front of our house that we lovingly refer to as the "party patio." We have a lot of impromptu BBQ's on the party patio and we hang out there a lot. Since a good amount of time hanging out there is also spent eating, I decided that I wanted a table that we could use for food. I wanted it to be cheap so that if the elements reeked havoc on it, I wouldn't care. I found the perfect table at the DI.

It had all of the things that I wanted. It was cheap, it had a leaf, and it was Formica which would be good in the rain.

It was speckled with gold, which left something to be desired.

Plus it was dirty as can be. I gave it a good healthy scrubbing and then used something that I had been wanting to try.

Appliance spray paint.

I gave the table three good coats just to make sure that it was well covered.

Then I painted the metal legs a bright teal that matches some of our outdoor chairs.

The table has been painted for over a month and, so far, has held up great. Truthfully, I am trying to figure out what other things I can paint with appliance paint that are not appliances.

On a completely separate note: We were hoping to close on our refinance this last Tuesday but it didn't happen. As soon as we close, demolition begins. I am very excited about tearing down the wood paneling.