a matching kitchen table

I finally finished painting our kitchen table to match the mail organizer that I just painted:-)

Let me tell you, it was time-consuming! I thought I would never be done coating it with paint! It wasn't that hard, but because I painted it in red, it required many, many coats!



Two painting projects is about my limit, I'm ready to move on to other things.......like christmas!!! :-)



SO without much further ado.......here it is! (Sorry for the annoying camera spots!)



BEFORE



AFTER

With the primer on(I won't bore you with the details, like I did with my last project, pretty much did the same thing, except it required more coats of paint)




The whole finished room, with both completed projects, I need to put some other kind of picture on the left side of the wall, above the mail organizer.....any suggestions?

And what makes it even more of a homey kitchen table, are the beautiful roses my sweet hubby surprised me with tonight! Have I said how blessed I am to have the sweetest, bestest(yes, I know that's not a word!) husband in the whole world!

That's all for now!

P.S. Aren't you all just loving this gorgeous weather??

P.S.again.... I just might have a 4 day weekend starting tomorrow......;-)

Desk Organizer Painting Project!

SO as promised here is the latest project! My kitchen is a red and black theme(if you couldn't tell from the last apron project I posted)...and so I decided to stick with that color in my dining room too! I painted this mail/desk organizer thingthatIdon'treallyknowwhatitis. I liked this color red so much that who knows what else will end up this color in my house :-) Next up is painting the kitchen table!


1-First I sanded to rough it up.



2-Next I primed it, 2 coats, with a primer specifitely for bright colors. It did a great job!

3- Of course then I painted it with a ruby red color. I don't have pictures of me painting, but I did 2 coats of that as well.

4-Next I mod-podged the inside with scrapbooking paper. This was a first for me, but it actually wasn't too hard. The most time-consuming part was measuring to fit the paper inside. I did use an online tutorial that showed me the best way to mod podge it. I really like how it turned out!

5-With the mod podging done, all I did to finish the project was sand the edges down to give it a roughed up look(and sanded whatever I thought looked good)

6- And the last step was put everything back in it! Oh and you can see in the last 2 pictures, I also mod podged a little wooden organizer that I had! It was brown before and I thought, why not make it match everything else? :-) Yes, I got a little mod podge happy!

And that's the end of that project:-) Stay tuned for my matching kitchen table:-)