productive weekend :)

We had a nice, productive weekend this week :) We also had our first guests in the house since it started to look like an actual home - it's great to get validation from others that what we are doing looks as good as we think it does!

Saturday morning Brent let me tag along on a trip to his current favourite store, Harbor Freight. I can see why he's so enamoured! It has everything you could need, and at cheeeeep prices. My mission for the weekend was to kick start all the furniture restoration we have lined up for ourselves - it seems every weekend we find another great piece of furniture that just needs a coat of paint/stain/sanding to be perfect. To do this job well, we wanted to see if we could find a relatively cheap spray gun attachment for the compressor we already have. We did! $15 for a great attachment :) It might not last forever, but it only needs to last a week or two to finish all my painting projects!


The first of my painting projects was a set of dressers we picked up at Faith Farm a couple of weeks ago. They were originally a pale olive green veneer and have the MOST gorgeous brass hardware - I think if they didn't have the hardware, we wouldn't have bought them!




I started off by cleaning and priming all the surfaces.

Then painted everything with a black semi gloss paint. It was tricky getting used the the sprayer, but I think it made a huge difference to the end product.















Brent spent most of his time on Saturday prepping the ceiling for the installation of the recessed lighting and the pendant light over the eat-in counter. The ugly fan was removed - finally!






The finished product looks fantastic! The kitchen is almost finished!











My next project was to repaint these club chairs. They were liberated from the last "big trash" day in Boca, I can't believe someone was throwing them away! They were in great shape as it was, but definitely not our style.

Now they are the same semi shiny black as the dresser, and their cushions will be recovered this week with some funky fabric I picked up at Ikea :)



Brent changed out the old, ugly hallway light fixture as well, it's now a nice looking mid-century fixture that actually matches the house.

He also worked on a new storage solution for the bathroom...we have almost none in there right now. Another thrift store find was a nightstand that Brent cut the top out of to fit around the pipes. The drawers were removed and the drawer fronts converted to a cupboard door, and we have an under-sink cabinet! :)