As you probably know, I’m never satisfied to have JUST ONE project going on at a time. I’m usually all over the map at my house, tackling 12 billion things at once. It seems things take forever to get done.
But the beauty of my “work on everything all at once” approach is that sometimes LOTS of projects get FINISHED all at once. That, I like.
BEFORE: WOOD TABLE
Just when I shocked a few of you by admitting that I painted my antique coffee table blue, this weekend I also finished painting my previously unpainted WOOD dining table WHITE. Yes, I painted another wood table.
{crickets}
DISCLAIMER: This table was just a simple not fancy pine Pottery Barn circa 1990 something, no antiques were maimed or devalued in this makeover. I do LOVE natural wood and have no intentions of painting ALL of my wood pieces. Just the less than lovely ones that need a little lift.
It is now white. I like it that way. It is not perfectly distressed. It is not perfectly painted. It is not perfectly anything. Just white. But I’m happy to have crossed another project off my list, it is good enough for now. My dining room still has a long ways to go (walls are still swine, ugh), but a little bit of progress is better than nothing. I simple used a coat of Zinsser primer and a coat of white trim paint. DONE.
The truth about completing these painting projects is that I had a deadline this past weekend. I had an amazing opportunity come my way. But they needed some photos of my house right away. WHA?? When I have a worthy deadline, I find the time to finish all sorts of things.
Especially if my house looks like THIS when I’m called for photos:
Yeah. WELCOME to my world. They caught me in the middle of living my real life.
I had to run around like a crazy woman and put my house back in order so I could take a photo. Gah.
But, the effort was worth it to see my dining room again. Deadlines are helpful like that.
And now that I finished up a few things, I’m on a roll….I’ve got several new projects in the works and a few more that I’ve completed! More on those later.
Do you work better under a DEADLINE?
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