Apparently working on K's birthday gift, gardening, canning and preserving and planning the school year are not enough to keep me busy so I added painting over the black stairs to the list.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
Showing posts with label house projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house projects. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Crafting On
The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity
amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one
project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall
behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with,
too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture
or two, post it on your blog, on Instagram #craftingon and/or Flickr and
then share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
Apparently working on K's birthday gift, gardening, canning and preserving and planning the school year are not enough to keep me busy so I added painting over the black stairs to the list.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
Apparently working on K's birthday gift, gardening, canning and preserving and planning the school year are not enough to keep me busy so I added painting over the black stairs to the list.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Crafting On
The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity
amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one
project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall
behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with,
too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture
or two, post it on your blog, on Instagram #craftingon and/or Flickr and
then share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
I am still continuing with house projects. I found this cute farmhouse stool at a yard sale. It was stained a reddish color and I couldn't remove it so I painted it white. My boys have used these farmhouse stools before and fallen off of them due to standing too close to the edge and making them tip. So I added some very imperfect stripes on this one to let them know just how close their feet could get to the edge before tipping it. So far it is working!
What are you working on? Happy creating!
I am still continuing with house projects. I found this cute farmhouse stool at a yard sale. It was stained a reddish color and I couldn't remove it so I painted it white. My boys have used these farmhouse stools before and fallen off of them due to standing too close to the edge and making them tip. So I added some very imperfect stripes on this one to let them know just how close their feet could get to the edge before tipping it. So far it is working!
What are you working on? Happy creating!
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Crafting On
The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity
amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one
project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall
behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with,
too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture
or two, post it on your blog, on Instagram #craftingon and/or Flickr and
then share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
Hey there! This week's crafting on project isn't exactly crafting (again) but doing some work on our home. I love the brick in our kitchen but it consists of two out of the three walls in our kitchen and it makes it extremely dark, especially in the winter (for reference I had to really brighten up that first photo, the brick was a lot darker than it looks). I was thinking of whitewashing it but in the end I just decided to paint it. I did two coats of primer so far and it already looks so much brighter!
In the future I plan on replacing the black farmhouse sink with a white one as well as paint the cabinets but this simple paint job is all that our budget can handle for now.
Hey there! This week's crafting on project isn't exactly crafting (again) but doing some work on our home. I love the brick in our kitchen but it consists of two out of the three walls in our kitchen and it makes it extremely dark, especially in the winter (for reference I had to really brighten up that first photo, the brick was a lot darker than it looks). I was thinking of whitewashing it but in the end I just decided to paint it. I did two coats of primer so far and it already looks so much brighter!
In the future I plan on replacing the black farmhouse sink with a white one as well as paint the cabinets but this simple paint job is all that our budget can handle for now.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Crafting On
The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two, post it on your blog, on Instagram #craftingon and/or Flickr and then share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
I can't remember if I shared these desks on here or if it was only Instagram but you might remember these photos from last summer. We found these school desks for sale and I couldn't pass them up. I had been looking for something like them for years. The only problem was the intense paint. You can see the gorgeous dark wood underneath it on the green one. I was hoping to strip the paint off and bring back their natural beauty. Well, almost a year later and hours of trying to strip just one chair I have given up. That green paint penetrated layers of wood making it impossible to strip all the way. I was able to sand the tabletop part down enough so that I can keep that natural wood but the chair itself is getting a coat of white paint right after I finish typing this. Not what I originally imagined but I think it will look good nonetheless.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
I can't remember if I shared these desks on here or if it was only Instagram but you might remember these photos from last summer. We found these school desks for sale and I couldn't pass them up. I had been looking for something like them for years. The only problem was the intense paint. You can see the gorgeous dark wood underneath it on the green one. I was hoping to strip the paint off and bring back their natural beauty. Well, almost a year later and hours of trying to strip just one chair I have given up. That green paint penetrated layers of wood making it impossible to strip all the way. I was able to sand the tabletop part down enough so that I can keep that natural wood but the chair itself is getting a coat of white paint right after I finish typing this. Not what I originally imagined but I think it will look good nonetheless.
What are you working on? Happy creating!
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