the candidates

No, not those candidates!

This is about bedroom politics.  Bedroom paint, that is.

There is a broad field of candidates…

The candidates’ names and platforms are…

1 -Bedford Gray, Martha Stewart Living – too light

2 -Cobblestone, Martha Stewart Living – . . . → Read More: the candidates

making the chandelier – behind the madness

Let me tell you how I got to this wonderful chandelier transformation…

It started out like this…

I bought 2 cans of Rustoleum’s Universal Metallic Paint & Primer in One in Champagne Mist from Home Depot and took to the garage and used . . . → Read More: making the chandelier – behind the madness

chandelier transformation

Finally, I’m bidding good riddance to the old brass octopus in my dining/living room and saying hello to my brand new chandelier!

Let’s start with a little chandelier retrospective. I started with this…

Bought this…

Spray painted to turn into this…

. . . → Read More: chandelier transformation

the new neutral

Here are a couple of paint colors that I’m considering for my bedroom…

Why yes, I am feeling a little bold, now that you mention it!

But not just bold…neutral.  Gray is the new neutral.  At least in my world.

Originally I . . . → Read More: the new neutral

i cheated

I cannot tell a lie.

I cheated.

What did I do?

I hired someone to paint my bathroom.

True confessions of a DIYer.

Facts are that there was a teenage hair dye explosion a while back and there’s a graduation party coming up in about 3 weeks, and I couldn’t live with the . . . → Read More: i cheated

another chalkboard project

One afternoon, I got the inspiration to paint another quick & easy chalkboard project. (To be honest, I was procrastinating about some less inspiring household projects when I had this brainstorm.)

My last chalkboard project was my kitchen pantry cabinet doors.

I decided to add a splash of blackboard next to my kitchen . . . → Read More: another chalkboard project

mother knows best

After reading my blog entry about Message Central, my mother commented, “The cabinets look really cute, but you know me, I couldn’t handle the chalkdust.”

As they say, Mother knows best!

After only one day of 2 kids drawing all day on the new chalkboards, I couldn’t handle the chalkdust either. Fortunately, my . . . → Read More: mother knows best

message central mission accomplished

I finally gave up on trying to find the perfect blackboard tiles & decided to paint our pantry cabinets with magnetic paint, followed by chalkboard paint, hoping with each stroke of the roller that we don’t sell the house before I do an extreme kitchen makeover (i.e., a major kitchen remodel to make . . . → Read More: message central mission accomplished

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