That's right, folks! My wonderful boyfriend and I are priming the nightstand! We decided on a fabulous color called Citrus Punch--kind of an orange creamsicle color. We're going to do the borders in this gorgeous shade of brown called Sweet Tea. Both of them can be found here. (Click on the orange palate. Citrus Punch is second row, next to last, and Sweet Tea is bottom row, second sample.)
I wanted to take a photo of the nightstand before we started painting it, but my WB got it sanded down before I could even think about it. Then I wanted to take a photo of the sanded stand, but...well...I forgot. And then we primed it today, and it kind of seems irrelevant to just take a picture of the primed stand and the finished stand. So, you will have to wait for me to post a photo of the finished product and imagine how it looked before we made it beautiful!
Showing posts with label home improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home improvement. Show all posts
Monday, March 15, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Home Improvement
Today, my wonderful boyfriend and I visited Home Depot, if I am not mistaken, for the first time ever. I mean, it's a little hard to do home improvement when you don't own a home to improve, right? And I think our landlord might get angry if we decided to spiff up our duplex.
Anyway, we have this little nightstand that his dad gave us when we moved into our first apartment. Back then, we were basically taking all our relatives' castoffs and hand-me-downs so we could have some semblance of furniture. Now we even own our own couch. OOOOOH.
Back to the nightstand. Well, it's never been too pretty-looking. It's kind of scuffed up, and one of the handles fell off. When we moved into our new place, we decided we would hang on to it and spruce it up: new layer of paint, new handles, and voila!
Well...that was a year ago. And it's still scuffed up and missing a handle.
UNTIL TODAY.
Originally we were going to HD to look for some buttercups to plant outside. (Do they sell buttercups? I mean I'm used to just seeing them in yards and pastures and along the roadside but we don't have any near our house and I NEED buttercups. My happiness depends on it.) My WB decided that, while there, we should also look at paint and handles for the the nightstand (!). So we did, and the HD associate was very helpful in telling us what all we would need to do to fix up our lil' stand. We ended up going home with some primer, sandpaper, two new handles (!), and a book of paint samples. Now all we have to do is pick a color and actually PAINT it.
Oh...and we've also decided to fix up this old microwave stand that we used as a TV stand and make some other use for it. Are we domestic or what?
Anyway, we have this little nightstand that his dad gave us when we moved into our first apartment. Back then, we were basically taking all our relatives' castoffs and hand-me-downs so we could have some semblance of furniture. Now we even own our own couch. OOOOOH.
Back to the nightstand. Well, it's never been too pretty-looking. It's kind of scuffed up, and one of the handles fell off. When we moved into our new place, we decided we would hang on to it and spruce it up: new layer of paint, new handles, and voila!
Well...that was a year ago. And it's still scuffed up and missing a handle.
UNTIL TODAY.
Originally we were going to HD to look for some buttercups to plant outside. (Do they sell buttercups? I mean I'm used to just seeing them in yards and pastures and along the roadside but we don't have any near our house and I NEED buttercups. My happiness depends on it.) My WB decided that, while there, we should also look at paint and handles for the the nightstand (!). So we did, and the HD associate was very helpful in telling us what all we would need to do to fix up our lil' stand. We ended up going home with some primer, sandpaper, two new handles (!), and a book of paint samples. Now all we have to do is pick a color and actually PAINT it.
Oh...and we've also decided to fix up this old microwave stand that we used as a TV stand and make some other use for it. Are we domestic or what?
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