Well, it's the end of day one for this adventure I'll call The beginning of Colorblocking...the very, very, early, beginning of ColorBlocking.
Let me get right to it-
Today, I started on 3 of the 4 dining room chairs I snagged for free from some friends who were cleaning out their basement. Well, it was a LOT harder and took a LOT longer than I had anticipated. I mean how long does it take to throw some High-Gloss, Ultra White paint on some chairs?!
Well, for me, 2 hours a chair.
So there's a slight learning curve to refurbing (a term I use to refer to any item I am making prettier) ie. catching dripping paint before it dries into a permanent drip which is definitely not the look I am going for; or remembering to paint, everywhere, everything, even ALL the underneaths.
(See before picture above)
Then, after I spent the better part of my day with some old chairs from the 60's and painted them right into 2011, I decided to break out the paint in a can, also known as spray paint!!
Nothing was safe from my spray. Compared to paint with a brush, this stuff is EASY!!!
I spray-painted a gold (some might say gaudy mirror) white. Then I figured while I had the spray paint in hand, I might as well paint this empty picture frame I snagged at an antique store in New York, lovely I do think!
(Pictures to follow)
It's a bit overwhelming thinking of all the projects I have in mind, all the items my BF and I have acquired, but I suppose I should focus on the ones at hand, and figure it out as it comes.
Like life sometimes, I suppose.
See the BF and I have these grand ideas of taking over the world one chair, one coffee table at a time....well not exactly. But we are taking some small steps towards our own little company of sorts, taking old, beat-up, in need of a little TLC *things* and giving them a new life. Right now a lot of the things we are finding, at our very happy shock, are things people are giving away for FREE or things we come across at a bargain because they need some help. We plan on taking these things and refurbing them and then selling them online.
Easy as pie, right?!
Except as I write this, I think, how are we going to find time to work on these things, when we both have for-real day jobs, and how are we shipping these things to people who order them online, and how are we going to design a website for these things, and how are we going to get people to our website...just a glimpse into the many questions dancing in my head.
But again I tell myself, do what I can do, with what I have today, and we'll figure the rest out later. (fingers and toes crossed)
I look forward to your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and especially of all, compliments!
