Showing posts with label retro decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retro decor. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Kitchen Remodel and a Painting Tip

First of all,
I am attacking this interior
one "room' at a time. 
Kitchen remodel first,
it is almost completed.
It is a small area to work in
and I am here to tell you,
this is a lot of painting and trimming!

Behind the stove was paper,
not in perfect shape,
a little wrinkled at the edges.
The question of removing it, briefly flitted through my mind.
I am way more into camouflaging issues
than making a worse mess sometimes.
So I painted it.
Then to "define" the kitchen area
I decided to stripe it.
Taped off,
and here is your tip...
If you paint back over the tape
with the base color,
it seals the edges of the tape
and
keeps the top color from bleeding through,
allowing for more crisp stripes.

And all the thoughts of
red
green
orange
cupboard doors?
Resulted in Honey Brown.
So far,
I am liking it...

I cleaned all the cupboards,
painted and lined the drawers,
scrubbed the floor
and before I left last night,
could not resist
placing a few decorative items out.
Wish I would have taken the curtains with me.

I am even loving the floor!

Now on to the dining room....

Then the living room!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

The Thrill of the Hunt

Yesterday,
we attended
Clarion's
Autumn Leaf Festival.

As a side trip
we headed to this.


This little plaster decoration
screamed out
1960's to me.
I can see it on the camper wall now.
After I scrub, of course!


And then
as I was sitting here with coffee this morning,
I looked up and saw this.
I think that plaid cooler
may have to be moved to the
growing camper stash also!

And now
what I am really looking for is
a
set of these.

Gold or Green
preferably.

Still hunting!