My Paint of Choice

Hi, Christmas is over (what a crazy time!!) and I can start to get my house back in order!! I don't know if anyone can relate but I can not function in chaos lol. I am dying to start my new projects but can't until the rest of the house is in order. I still am finding peices of wrapping paper everywhere lol.

I'm hoping to start with the sanding next week in the new year.

In the mean time I thought I would share with everyone the paint used in all of my projects so far. I see that many of you Bloggers use chalk paint or milk paint. So far I have had great success with Behr Premium Plus Ultra. No Primer needed...just light sanding and two coats of paint. I even used it on my cheap laminate bookcases (needed 3 coats though as I dont think I sanded quite enough on those).

I have three boys so over time I will see how well it holds up....so far so good!! Even with the kids playing mini sticks in their game room downstairs!!

Painted Vinyl Ottoman...Yes Painted!!

So I read somewhere that you can paint vinyl furniture with a special spray paint from the automotive store. I was pretty sceptical and figured it would crack but wanted to try it. I had an extremely old and ugly vinyl bench thingy that was an ugly reddish brown that was left in my laundry room by the previous owners. I was using it to store paint cans on. I wish I had taken a before picture but I forgot. I decided it would be my guinea pig so I washed it, purchased 2 cans of the spray paint and sprayed away. I did about 4 coats and to my surprise it turned out beautiful! You would never know it is painted and it doesn't crack...at all!! Here are some pics of the finished product....

 

 

 

Home Office Furniture Before and After

 

Finished my home office furniture!

 

 

BEFORE

 

 

AFTER

 

 

I even painted the filing cabinet!!

 

BEFORE

 

                                                                     
                                                                        AFTER

 

I'll post pictures of the room once I have finished putting it back together.

Ok....so here are my kijiji finds....Now to decide what to do with them!! :)

I don't have pictures yet but  am so excited about my latest kijiji find that I have to post about it right away!!! I picked up a beautiful armoire, dresser, end tables and mirrors! They are going to be my New years projects :) I'll post pictures tonight!! Can't wait!!

Antique Telephone Bench Transormation

 

 

 

Cute little telephone bench from the 40's that I found at a thrift store. It begged me to take it home and make it pretty :)

 

BEFORE

 

 

 

AFTER

                          I had extra material so I painted a lamp and used the material on the shade

Golden Girls Adventures

Antique Shopping Adventures!

 

In October we did our yearly mom's weekend way up at our friends cottage resort in Wasaga. What a great place!! If anyone is looking for a great family oriented place to stay at while in Wasaga this is the place to be! Woodland Cedars :) We go up at least twice a year...mom and kids week in the summer and mom's weekend in the fall :)

 

It was a rainy cold weekend so we decided to go to Elmvale for some shopping and check out an antique store and a few other cool shops.

 

On our way!!

(Ummm...Teresa, eyes on the road please!!)

 

 

 

 

We can't help but have a little fun!!

Lucky for Christie I'm no Mike Tyson!!

                                   

 

 This is just creepy!!

 

 

                                                Unfortunately he did not turn into a prince

 

 

                                                         It's a good look for you Jess!!

 

 

                                                                          Nice lol

                                                The shop owner thought we were crazy!!

 

 

 

This was the coolest store ever!!!

Operation Gazebo

Operation Gazebo!!

So in June I purchased a gazebo off of Kijiji for $50.00. Now the question was, how do I install it? I have never seen it done before. I figure it can't be too hard so I all upon my sisters (not by blood but by choice) to come help me out :)

 

 

 

 

Christie and I - photo shoot prior to getting started. What can I say....we are picture junkies :)

Gathered all the necessary supplies. We didn't have safety goggles so swimming goggles would have to do. I have no idea where I got the hard hat from but good thing I have it...this could get dangerous!!

 

 

 

 

Hmmmm....this looks a little more complicated than I thought

 

 

Maybe Jess can help

 

 

 

we figured this would probably be the most important tool

 

 

 

 

Turns out this was :)

 

Probably giving these two wine before starting was not a good idea

 

 

Hmmm.....lots of little pieces, hope we don't lose any!!

 

 

And so it starts...Operation Gazebo underway :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice how Jess has a glass of wine in her hand through out most of the operation

 

 

 

 

Or sitting right beside her...its never far

*Notice she has the entire bottle beside her now as well

 

 

 

 

 

                                                       Our Foreman Deb....safety first!!!

 

Quick break...so far so good!!

 

Now for the more difficult part..the roof

*Note...Jess still carrying the wine glass

 

                                     


                                     
                                        
                                         I guess our foreman has better things to do...like texting!
                                                                  (probably a boy :)

 

*Note...Jess still carrying the wine glass

 

 

 

Somethings not right.....our foreman inspects

                                                                     Ooops...my bad

 

Putting the cover on, none of us are too tall so we enlisted the help of brooms (I knew they were good for something!! :)

                                                                                                                                                                                      

Almost done!!!!

 

Screwing it into the deck...good call Connie!! But why aren't you using the drill?

 

Girl Power!!!

 

Time to feed everyone :)

                                    

                                                                     and coffee time


                                    
                                Probably not a good idea to let the kids play with the power tools

 

Time to eat :)

 

                                                                    Great job ladies!!!!

 

The finished product :)