There is nothing like home improvement projects to test the health of your marriage. We sanded and painted a bunch of stuff over the past month or so.
The Desk:
Gwen sanding by hand the crevasses in the desk.
Sanding the desk. This picture would be really creepy if the harmless sander were a chainsaw. Keep in mind this New England in February, it's freaking cold out there.
I wish I had taken some pictures of the stuff before we started the project. This is as close as a before picture to a desk as possible. At least you can see the color difference.
After! After long conversations and debates over what color we should repaint the desk we picked these two colors on sort of a whim while in Home Depot. I'd also like to point out that the curtains in the background are also homemade -- Gwen sewed them a few months ago.
This is an old black $10 Ikea coffee table that had a huge scratch in it that we decided to repaint. After repainting it we realized it didn't turn out so good so we found a new coffee table on craigs list a few blocks away that "needed to be refinished". We jumped on the opportunity and bought a new, real wood coffee table, sanded it and repainted it. I think it turned out great
We ended up keeping the old coffee table too. We just couldn't let go.
Next we built four shelves. I also painted the picture frame. There are two shelves in the living room and two in the kitchen.
3 comments:
look at your beautiful home! such craftiness.
Sweet.
But I have a question. In the picture with the wine glasses, is that a jar full of coffee beans?!
no!! they are flax seeds! or fennel or something...
and the wine glasses are for diet coke!!
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