A few weeks ago I bought this bulletin board from Goodwill for $2. It’s no great shakes, but it wasn’t expensive and it came with some thumbtacks too. I wanted to use this in Zoe’s room, so I sprayed it with some white primer and then some white spray paint and hung it up in […]
Want to see my new black nightstands?
I’m finally finished painting the two nightstands that I bought at Goodwill recently, so I thought I’d share pictures. First, here’s what our old Ikea nightstands looked like. We had two, and this one was in the best shape. The other one came from an antique store (I know…what kind of antique store sells Ikea […]
It doesn’t rain, but it pours!
Last spring/summer, the free furniture was pretty much pouring in(I got four dressers, three nightstands, two desks, a chair, a table, and a file cabinet from freecycle). Happily(because I was growing very weary of painting!) nothing came along in the fall. Recently, though, I got the nightstand for Zoe’s room, and I also got this […]
Miscellany-celery, tea, hot dog buns, and sanding
I’ve never done a post like this before, but I have a bunch of things to say that wouldn’t make good stand-alone posts. So, here are several very unrelated things all squeezed into one post. Celery Last September, right before we went on vacation, I mentioned that I was freezing some celery(I had to do […]
Whee! A sweet freecycle find!
So, back in July I posted about a little nightstand that I’d painted white for Zoe’s room. I was pretty happy with how well it matched her dresser, but I just wasn’t a big fan of the scroll detail on the nightstand drawers since the dresser drawers are flat. Well, I snagged a nightstand from […]
If you don’t yet think that spray paint rocks…
I’m going to try to convince you again! We used to have a fish tank and a tall bookshelf in our dining room. Actually, wait…would you like to see what the dining room looked like when we bought the house? It’s pretty scary. Yeah. That’s three different kinds of wallpaper, plastic chair-rail, and green carpet […]
