A Project Finally Finished

I have been looking at this for probably about 3 months.

If you notice the top half got painted, and well......I never found the time to finish the bottom. For three reasons:

1.) I ran out of paint

2.) It has been constantly raining

3.) I am lazy

So, I finally made myself get crackin' because I was tired of looking at it. Now if I can find some place for the dog bed to go...another day.

Here it is all the same color.

Notice when the bed is gone, you have a clear view of the missing paint. Yeah, I guess you can add paint-eating to this list of stuff that the dogs do. I don't know how they did it, but the paint is gone. Maybe the lead in the paint is the reason why they act all crazy!

While I was at Lowe's getting the paint (I was super lazy and used spray paint) I decided to tackle a few more projects. #1 the kitchen. I hate the cabinets. They are just the stock, cheap cabinets that Lowe's keeps in stock. And they had just plain jane knobs on it. So I grabbed a few knobs and switched those out.

I wanted some different pull knobs for the pull out drawers, but since the holes were already drilled for just one hole, I decided against defacing the cabinets with me trying to drill holes in them just right for different pulls, so I just went with all the same brushed-bronze knobs.

Not much of a difference, but it makes me feel better. Then I decided to change out door knobs to match the new kitchen knobs.

Granted, these weren't my first choice of knobs. But the ones I liked were $25 and these were just $10, so I just went with those since we will hopefully move out of this place soon. But I thought that upgrading little things like that would help. I just did the doors in the kitchen, dining, and living room. I might splurge and get a little bit more fancy ones for the back of the house, but I doubt it. I also want to change out ceiling fans, bathroom light fixtures, and vanity fixtures one day. Just trying to decide if I want to put that expense into a house that we will be putting back on the market soon.

Another completed project was the kitchen island. Remember that it looked like this:

It also got a coat of paint. Now it looks like this:

It has since been moved back to the kitchen because the pups no longer have the desire to chew on it like they did before. But I did have to do some repairs on the bottom with wood filler to fill in a huge chunck that they ate off the corner.

One day if I ever get really brave and can figure out a good way to paint fake plastic cabinets I want to do this to them:

As the Rolling Stones would say, I want to Paint it Black.

Another project done is installing the new light fixture in the dining room. My parents gave us this for Christmas. Joseph had a wonderful time installing this heavy, bad boy.

That's about it on the projects I have going. But just to keep it real here is one project that will probably never get finished.

My poor quilt. I do have the front done for the most part. I still need to go buy a few more honey buns to make it just a bit bigger. But somehow, I don't see that happening for a while!

What do you have on your honey-do list? I have a long one, I just doubt that my honey will do them!!