A little freshening up

This post has been marinating in my drafts. I started it the day I broke the camera. I took half the pictures and wasn't able to finish until the new camera was purchased. I just didn't think my cell phone would do it justice.

I mentioned that we were going to repaint our sunroom. Well, Memorial Day weekend, we did just that. I really like the color that was in the sunroom, but it looked "thin" in some places, showing through the wood paneling and just needed a refresher. Not knowing what color it was, we threw a couple of paint samples on the wall and ended up choosing Glidden's "Antique Beige."

We thought it was going to be a very quick process, but it seemed to take longer than expected. As always, it was my job to trim while Landon rolled. Needless to say, my job was harder.

Can you see the subtle difference in the colors? The all to my left has the fresh coat of paint while the wall to my left has the old color. I know ... it's barely noticeable in this pic.

At first we were afraid we were going to need two coats of paint, but luckily it gave great coverage once completely dried. Also, once dried, we realized it was actually a shade lighter than the original. I think Landon said it best when he said the entire room just looked "clean." So true. Funny what a new coat of paint can do.

We had hoped to have enough paint to also do the office, but the walls just soaked it up and we basically used the entire gallon. I do like the color so I may just end up buying another gallon or I might choose something new all together. We'll see. We're a little ways off from that project.

Now that the paint was done in the sunroom, I could finally begin hanging things on the wall. Mainly, these beautiful vases purchased from IKEA.

I had bought some hooks also from IKEA and with Landon's help, we were able to get them hung.

My goal is to purchase some battery-operated candles to put down in them with some shells. I have my eye on some at Michael's that look real when turned on, but I didn't realize how expensive they were! So, I'm waiting on them to go on sale.

I put the potpourri purchased a few weeks ago in some other vases I had and placed them on my yellow tables. The blue of the vase and the blue in the potpourri is perfect. 

The room already looks better. Now if I only had some furniture for it ....

I think I need to go yard sale shopping ... surely I can find some cute wicker furniture that just needs a good spray paint.

Table Talk

This post has been a long time coming ... remember about three weeks ago when I mentioned I had been working on a big project? Well, I finally finished this weekend!

As you will remember, I bought a table on Craig's List back in January with the intentions of redoing it. Here are some pictures of the before.

Well, I'm proud to reveal that the table has been completed! It was a long process because I had to prime, paint three coats of Glidden Marshmallow White and then put the finishing glaze on top. That is why it required several weekends of work. It sat in our garage a long time, but this afternoon, Landon and I finally brought it back in the house, which is also a bit of an ordeal because we have to walk around the house and go in the front door. The table is too big to fit through the door leading to the garage. We learned that the hard way when we tried to move it out there.

So, enough gabbing. Here is the final product.

A couple of things to note. I found that after the first coat of white, that I had pretty big streaks on the top. So, I decided to use a paint roller for coats two and three. Not only did it not streak, but it was so much faster. I highly recommend. That said, the final product does still have some streaks because the finishing glaze is fast drying and despite putting it on as quickly as I could, I just couldn't get it to look perfect. But, unless someone will be coming into critique, which I don't expect, then I think it works. 

We have the table with the leaves in pushed up against the window right now so we can walk in the room, but it won't be staying that way. We'll remove the leaves most of the time because it is so large, but we want them to have plenty of time to dry before doing so. I'll be working on the chairs over the next few weeks. I'm really excited about this because we've hesitated on having friends over until we have a proper place to feed them. We're getting closer!