Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Our Latest Projects

Since Sam is still working on our fence that is almost finished, I have been working inside on a few projects.  The fence was so expensive that I have been trying to find projects to work on that are free/cheap.  We chose to redo a few furniture items we already had to save money instead of just buying new ones.  This dresser was left by the previous owners and has some great storage inside, but it is definitely not our style.  I painted it black this week and updated the hardware and now we have a great new TV stand down in the basement!
 Here is the after picture, all pretty and black!
 We also worked on the hallway leading down to the basement.  I took the handrail off and painted it and fixed up the hardware for it.  The handrail was white with lots of scratches and chipping and now it is black.  We also removed the popcorn texture from the ceiling and painted that a nice clean white and then also painted the walls a darker gray.
 Here is the after picture with all the hallway pictures hung back up!
We also painted a huge bookshelf in the basement that holds all the kids toys.  That was also left by the previous owners and was sort of a light wood color.  The new fence should be finished pretty soon.  It looks great.  Once that is done I can get Sam's help on inside projects again!

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