another project!

 I am a second guesser.  The QUEEN of second guessing.  I have had an idea in my head for ages, for this piece of furniture, it has no name, we call it That Thing With The Baskets Under It.  We bought it at an unfinished furniture store a few years back, and I think I put some light stain on it before sealing it with poly.  In any case, I don't love it anymore. 

AS you can see, the knobs are different.  The wood one on the left is what it came with, the flower one is off the kitchen cabinets, I considered spray painting and using...then decided to just use the new pulls we just put on the kitchen cabinets...which means two holes, and these holes had to be filled.  I couldn't find any wood filler, so just used drywall compound.  Paul said it won't work, but Google says it will.  :)

I sanded the top, and will put one coat of clear coat, the rest of it will be painted the same color as the cabinets.  I don't love painting over wood, because wood is nice.  But this wood has always looked patched together to me, on the top it's fine, but the rest of it...nah.  The Second Guesses started to paralyze me, so I had to take a bloggy break.  Not really, the drywall stuff has to dry so I can sand it off and prime it.  And, the paint brushes and the top coat are downstairs, and I've already gone up and down the stairs once today, which is one time too many, in my lazy book.

So here I sit.  In the middle of a project.  The cabinet doors, oh dear.  They are all done, finished, and hung back up.  I can't show an official After Picture, because my lazy rear doesn't feel like putting everything 100% away on the countertops, plus I'm still using the paint and stuff.   I'm in the middle of sanding the wood edge of the counter top too, and it's hard, ha.  So I skipped over to this other little paint project.  Why clean when you feel like sanding and painting?  

Right now, I feel like doing nothing.  A bloggy break is just the thing.

This is why you buy extra cans of crushed tomatoes.  

One coat of primer...

And the second coat...the top is sanded but I haven't put anything on it yet.

I have to tell you a story.  Those hinges?  I was so proud of myself, I spray painted them and absolutely love the finished look, they match the handles perfectly.  Well...

Wait, tangent:  this poor corner cupboard, known here as The Broken Cupboard...true story, I have a picture of Evelyn standing in front of it as a toddler, it was broken then, don't know how long before. Evelyn is 25.   It was attached to the lazy susan inside, there were no hinges.  You just pushed it.  Well, it broke off, and well...true story, it sat in front of the cupboard...for years.  So many years you wouldn't believe it.  We removed the broken inside lazy susan, and put some shelves in there, used the cupboard, with the broken front just sitting in front of it.  When it was finally glued up, shored up with some brackets on the back, and hinged onto the cupboard, 22+ years had passed.  We still call it The Broken Cupboard.  (I think life would have been easier if we named ALL the cabinets and cupboards right from the start.  It would be easier to explain where things are to kids who haven't looked for it but ask where it is.)

Anyway.  The hinges.  I love the look.

 I wanted to help things along, half the doors were still not installed, so I used that drill and put on the handles, then the hinges, so Paul could just hang them up.  Well.  I put EVERY SINGLE hinge on backwards.  He had to remove them all, and fix them, didn't say anything, if I were him, I would have slapped me, ha, not really.  It was kind of hilarious, but then I wasn't the one doing all the fixing.  I can tell he's rather over the project stuff, he does it because it makes me happy.  He doesn't stand there in the kitchen in wonderment that we actually made it look so much nicer for less than two hundred dollars, in just a few days.  

The thing is, projects beget projects.  Camille is convinced that our blueish walls don't match the cabinets, and that we need the paint called Creamy, which is like my coffee....a little bit of coffee with tons of cream.  Even lighter, just a hint of beige.  I don't love those colors, but if she's willing to do the work, I just may buy a gallon of paint.  And of course I'll be painting too.  

Ah well, my primer is dry, so I think I'll go do the first coat of paint on The Thing With The Baskets Under It.....have a good day!