Garage Sale Finds and Painting Progress

I'm tired, we painted all day yesterday and preped the kitchen today.

I am excited to share the pictures of that progress but first...

(disclaimer there are a lot of pictures in this post)

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The great yard sale finds from last week

a fantastical modern headboard

it was 10 dollars
I've been wanting a headboard for a long time and
I am glad I waited until I found the 'right' deal

a computer chair for $5.00
we have been needing one of these for a while
a dining room chair just doesn't do it
my brother sleeps downstairs and the rolling is
much quieter

something about this $5.00 table appealed to me
I am going to lightly sand the top and stain it
we'll see what it evolves into

finally...this is a $7.00 shelving unit

I thought it would be good in the redone kitchen since

there isn't a whole lot of room and this is tall and thin

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Now to the transformations that are occuring here;

This is my mama. We went to the depo to get all of that paint

you see on the counter

This is a break after the first coat was finished

in the living room. Taping wasn't hard but took a while

so I am glad that I did it the night before

Here I am with paint in my hair

and on the top of my mouth

the mustache is from the hammered

silver spray paint we used in the kitchen.

Doesn't Little Bit look SO tired behind me.

All the activity of the day wore her out.

She did not come out the job unscathed

She had paint on her ear and chin

Here is a shot of the 'final product'

the tape is gone and do dad's replaced

looks pretty good I think, much better than the dingy

white that was here before

behind the stove before and...

after

This is the pantry door.

Mom painted it with chalboard paint

so we can put the grocery list up there

I've never used chalboard paint before so I we will

see if it really works.

While we were at Home Depot we saw

that they also have white dry earase paint

never seen that before, it looked interesting

Here is the work from today.

I took all the doors off the cabniets

then took all the handles and hinges off

then the drawers

then cleaned all the doors and drawers

then a bit of clean up cause it was getting overwhelming

tomorrow my goal is to sand and paint the doors and drawers

then thursday we paint the walls and FINISH the kitchen

WOO HOO!