Five Day Home Improvement Marathon
There is nothing like the thought of company coming to get you motivated to work on your house. My mom and stepfather will be arriving either Thursday night or Friday morning and that means we have about five days to tackle *a lot* of projects. We've been incredibly busy for the last two days and there is no end in site. I spent an entire day working on the kitchen alone - cleaning, decluttering, giving our farm table legs a makeover, and so on. Every room and closet needs a good going over and I'm about halfway there. Here is the list of things that I want completed by Thursday.
-Mow the yard, weed and mulch landscaping beds, prune a few trees
-Prime and paint the gutted bathroom subfloor, make the space temporarily "cottage cozy" (a gutted bathroom cottage cozy in five days? Stay tuned...) The only working part of this bathroom is the tub, our *only* tub, so our guests will have to be in there.
-Paint hallway and living room floor white (yes, folks, we're living with subfloor here at the moment. I stare longingly at our beautiful hardwood stacked in the garage dreaming of the day that we can finally install it! )
-Install cabinet doors
-Finish putting lattice skirting around deck
-Paint a small exterior portion of the house (deck area)
-Clean, declutter, clean, declutter!
Don't laugh, for all things are possible in the mind of a crazy woman:)
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I have complete confidence in a woman's ability to perform such a feat...especially when company is coming! I have a deadline myself. Housewarming in less than two months and the to-do list gets longer each day! Good luck to you!
You could wait and hand them a paintbrush when they arrive. Just call it a working vacation!
phew! making me tired!
What are you doing to make over your table? I have a nice sturdy one that I even like the shape of but not the look!
Thanks
I'm still at it, guys...we've gotten lots accomplished with mainly the cleaning to go!
Hi Malissa! I'm just painting our farm table legs since the top is nice maple. I just painted them the same color green that we'll be painting the kitchen (we'll be putting white beadboard in our dining room, so the table won't be blending in, hehe) Then I barely drybrushed some off white on here and there. Finally, I brushed brown glaze on quickly (in sections) and wiped it all off, leaving the glaze to settle in crevices. It just adds instant age to brighter colors...I didn't want the table to have that "just been painted look", hehe. I hope this helps!
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