Progress!

Salon/Laundry room [aka "salaundry" as the kids like to call it.]

BEFORE... 

This room, like every other room in the house, was the yellowy band-aid color too.
So very bad. 

AFTER...

Don't look too closely at the wall above the window.

 It still needs paint and so does the wall where the washer and dryer are, but I can't move 'em by myself!

It's getting close! 

Still need to pick out some sort of counter tops or shelves and get the mirror hung up. 

It's heavy!

Color is Valspar 'Smoke Infusion' (same as the kitchen)

I'm loving how it's coming along. 

Pretty soon I can relax..until I find something else to paint! :)

But for now, I gotta go clean the house that fell apart while I painted this morning.

It's my turn to host bunko tomorrow and I haven't done a thing to prepare!

a new kitchen light...

You've gotta check this out! CLICK HERE This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time! 

I had to make one for myself! It works perfectly in our 'new' kitchen. I love it and it was cheap and easy!!

You start with an Easter basket...

 Take the handle off.
 And cut a hole out to fit this CAN LIGHT-TO-PENDANT LIGHT CONVERSION KIT
You can get it at Lowe's for about $20

 A few coats of paint...

I chose oil rubbed bronze to match our faucet and drawer pulls in the rest of the kitchen.

 Put it all together. Now my boring empty kitchen window....

... is all fancied up!

 Here's a close up shot! It's too cool!!

Go check out CRAP I'VE MADE.

You'll love what you find! Such a fun blog!

kitchen before and after...

 Unless you've been to our house you can't truly know how ugly the current paint is. It's really bad! Just a gross yellowy band-aid color. It's bad! And it's throughout the entire house. Slowly, we're changing it. Slowly!

Before... (ignore the mess. I still had to be 'mom' during the painting process) Ugly, right!!??

 And yes, that's the screen door leaning up against the back door.  Apparently one of the kids didn't realize the screen was shut and went right through it. Just added to the chaos while I was trying to paint.

AFTER... Love the color but hate that giant light! The kids call it the 'bathtub light'.

 Maybe if I paint the trim white it won't stand out so bad.

We went through a million different colors. The one we finally chose was Valspar 'Smoke Infusion'. It's the perfect grey/blue/green. It looks good in every light and it opens the space so much and has a nice calming feel to it. We need calm around here!

It's the best grey ever...

City Storm by Valspar

I just finished painting two bedside tables for our master bedroom.
They still need a coat of poly, but I had to show you this color.
 Now I just need to find some drawer pulls and finish the lamps I started to go on top of the tables.  

I'm in the middle of decorating our room, so until It's finished, these pictures will have to do.

This grey will definitely find itself in a few more places in my house!

 LOVE IT!

--plus--

Here's a sneak peek of the bedding I bought this week!

It's being delivered tomorrow! eeeek!!! :)

Yellow..

I traded Melanie some of my furniture stash for this beauty.
 I'd guess it was made sometime in the mid 70's.

 Long before I was born!

Primed it (sorry, no picture of that step) with Kilz spray primer.

Then gave it 3 coats of Krylon" Bauhaus Gold" spray paint.

 I used Ralph Lauren "smoke" glaze. I applied it pretty heavily and then wiped it off to my liking. 

Finished it off with two coats of Minwax semi-gloss polycrylic. Good stuff. Adds a really hard, strong top coat and doesn't turn brown/yellow like polyurethane does.

It sits underneath our TV and stores some of the kids toys. 

Still haven't found the perfect knobs yet, which I'm really in no hurry to do since the kids toys are now trapped inside. :) My oldest two have figured out how to pry it open, but it still keeps number 3 & 4 out!

What do ya think of the color? Too crazy? Too bold? 

Nah, it's gonna look good with the paint I've picked out for the walls 

and the fabric I bought for the curtains.