we managed to squeeze in a lot of fun stuff this weekend: a girls' night for the history books on friday, relaxing and date night on saturday, and church/napping/baking/yahtzee yesterday. poor michael filled in all of his free time with homework...the life of a student!
i also fit in a little diy project yesterday that took hardly any time, but made a big impact in our living room.
when my grandpa moved out of his house last year, i was lucky enough to grab a few things for our house in the process. part of my haul was 2 wood trays, which i wasn't really sure what to do with at first, but i found uses for them on our old coffee table and in our kitchen. trays are good at corralling random things on surfaces so it looks a little more organized.
anyway, we recently made a few big changes to our living room (namely getting a new sectional couch and hanging curtains) that made my coffee table tray look not-so-awesome.
our old coffee table was white, so the dark brown tray gave it some color contrast. our new couch came with a matching ottoman, which we now use as our coffee table. brown-on-brown is not so cute.
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| all brown everything. |
when we were pulling in the garage coming back from church yesterday, i saw my row of spray paint cans and figured i might as well try to give the tray a makeover.
here's my super sophisticated spray painting setup.( kraft paper in the yard)
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| fancy |
i used krylon's indoor brushed metallic spray paint in champagne nouveau, satin finish. i used 3 coats of that, with about an hour of drying time inbetween each, then finished it off with a clear acrylic gloss coating spray from treehouse studio.
loki wanted to pose with the finished product. tada!
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| he's so photogenic |
here's the living room after photo. excuse my wonky curtains; of course i didn't notice that until now. :)
such a simple change that took less than 20 minutes of actual work time, but it made such a difference to the brightness of our living room. our only real pops of color are the pillows and some wall hangings, so lightening up the humongous brown mass of couch was the perfect finishing touch to our living room changes.
now i'm itching to spray paint something else! watch out house...
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