May sale dates

just finished this pretty little cupboard!

a little piece of local history

Anyone looking for a wonderful piece of history, this is it!

While cleaning out the barn this weekend, I came across this wonderful piece we bought at a local auction many years ago.

The auctioneer told us that this came from the old Mt Victory Post office.

It is a wonderful Postal cubby desk.

It is a wonderful piece to show off your collectibles.

This Weekends Project

  

Here is a sneak peak at this weekends project.

We are cleaning out the barn getting ready for the May Sale.

This weekends project - workbench transformed to a wonderful island or bar.

Hubby and I worked on her all weekend.

This is how she started.  A very ugly beat up work bench.

Missing wood, missing hardware. Black and sloppy. 

Hubby replaced the missing wood.  He added a back.  

He sanded the top.  And sanded some more....

I stained the top and back...

Painted her up and found some complimentary hardware to match the couple of pieces she came with.

 And here is the finished project!

kitchen redo

I have been wanting to redo the kitchen at the lake for quite some time...

I didn't want to spend a lot of money, so I decided that I would simply paint the 80's oak cabinets.  

I really wanted white cabinets, but I worried about the bright white appliances and the creamy white countertops.  

Which should I match to?  Either way one would end up looking dirty...

So I decided to go with a grey.  I used Annie Sloan French Linen.  

I started by taking an oak board and trying several different greys to see which one worked best (because I had grey tile to match to)  I chose French Linen.  

What I didn't do, was try the paints with wax and then see which one matched the best... 

big mistake.  

Wax drastically changes the color of the paint.  Even clear wax does.

So we started here with ugly cabinets, ugly appliances.

So when we finished painting & waxing the cabinets .... 

I was not thrilled with the look of  flooring & appliances with the cabinets.

Ugh.  

I was just not happy.  

No way I could afford new appliances, and besides these appliances worked just fine.  

So we tried changing the light bulbs.  One bulb made the cabinets look green.  

Another made the cabinets look blue.  

Neither of which I wanted.  I wanted grey.  A pretty, neutral grey.  Ugh.

We changed the hardware, which helped a little...

Then Black Friday came along....

Lowes had an amazing deal.  

For the price of a single refrigerator we were able to get a full suite.  

Hubby agreed, since he knew I was not happy, and I assured him we could sell our perfectly good set on craigslist and pay for our new set....which we did!

Here is our finished kitchen!  

I like it much more and it fits perfectly with the color story of the rest of the house!