Addiction

So, Anthony and have discovered that we have a shared addiction. And the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, so here I am.

And what's the problem?

The problem is that the Goodwill is right in front of the Lowe's.

Let's back track a little. I've been fixing up old things for a long time, as a hobby with my parents. The fact that Anthony has taken an interest in doing it with me, only makes it a bajillion times better.

Last Friday Anthony and I went on a mad search for a dresser. We fond one at a Glorified Junk Store (a second hand place that had maybe 10 antiques scattered around) that was too tall, way ugly, and $60. We decided to keep looking and we we found a dresser at goodwill that was absolutely beautiful as far as shape...everything else had to go...But it was only $30. So we went ahead and bought it and headed over to Lowe's. We picked up two mini paint rollers and trays used for trim, a quart of paint in a beautiful gray color, and 6 new drawer pulls and spent about $30. Yeah, we know that it still came up to 60 bucks, but we adore this dresser! The other one would have been 60 before paint and handles, and it was just too tall, and didn't have a mirror. 

This is the beautiful monstrosity! The white paint was peeling, the veneer on top looked like it was trying to be white wood, the little plastic feet in front looked like they where trying to be ivory, two of the drawers had these plastic pieces on them that I think was supposed to look like gold, and the plastic around the mirror had faded so badly that it looked yellow rather than white. Plus there was a ton of gold streaks here and there and everywhere!

You can tell we needed a dresser because of all the clothes on the couch. (Yeah actually, most of those clothes are still on the couch, but whatever.)

A flat coat of gray softened it up tremendously, and hammer finished black barn-esque drawer pulls make for a very happy Jenna Bean! :)

Then this Thursday (not even a week later) we went back to the goodwill in search of kitchen/dining room chairs. They didn't have any, so instead we picked up a mini two drawer dresser, a shoe caddy, and a lamp (that had a great shape, but an ugly green color and lots of chips in the paint) for $14. Then we headed on over to Lowe's and picked up 3 sleek silver drawer pulls, some bright pink paint, a nice paint brush (because we knew that using a roller on the lamp would be hard) and a lamp shade for $30. 

I'm considering painting a band around the vase part inspired by Native American vases and bowels, but I don't know yet. Either way, it's much better in gray than in the original goose shit green! :)

We used left over gray paint on the lamp and then attached the shade and a bright ass light bulb. We paid about $14 dollars for the shade, but they had a lamp very similar to ours in an ugly blue color at Lowe's for $15, and we got ours from Goodwill for $3! Hells yeah!!

Then we set to work on the shoe caddy. I turned it into an entertainment center for the girls, and instead of shoes, filled it will movies and books. It had two white handles on the front to pull the door down, and we replaced it with one silver pull. It was originally a white color that had lots of chips and stains. 

We had no idea when choosing a paint color that the pink would be almost identical to the girls Disney Princes Television! :)

It looks uneven but that's just because of our weird ass carpet hiding half of the bottom base (plus I can't hold the camera still) trust me though, it's perfect!

The dresser was the same color white with a lot of chips and stains and originally had these handles one it.

This is the result!

 I can't stand dark corners. It didn't bother me too much before, because this space held nothing but a few tubawares full of barbies, but with a dresser there it needed some light so I used the lamp that was originally in me and Anthony's room. It suits there room better, and looked silly in ours.

Is it obvious that my Jelly Beans LOVE pink?

You see that black blob next to that blue chair under the window? Stay tuned. :)

~They also had to have dream catchers, just like Jenna and Daddy! :) ~

Then last night that wasn't enough. The girls tv was originally sitting on a white table with no storage. I had planned on setting that table near their little plastic play kitchen set with their blue plastic chairs to make them a little "dinning room" area, but the table was too tall for the chairs. So I ripped the legs out and used the top to make one of those "breakfast in bed" trays (we eat in our bedroom A LOT) to use in our room. I painted it gray to match the other gray things in our room, made handles for it using the original drawer pulls from the gray dresser, and lined the inside with black felt so plates and cups wouldn't slip around too much, and put intentional splatters, spills and smears of gray paint on the felt, just for the fuck of it.

I wanted to put some kind of little feet on the bottom of it, but figured I would had to wait to buy some- but then got a great idea. We had bought some build it yourself out of a flat pack box furniture for our first two bedroom apartment (a coffee table and two end tables) a while back. We still use the coffee table, and one of the end tables is in our room as a bed side table. But the other table was sitting in our living room, about to be thrown away because it wasn't getting used. I remembered that each of the four legs had 2 little floor protecting feet, and decided to use those on the bottom of my food tray. And then one great idea led to another. It just so happened that the table was the perfect height for the girls little blue plastic chairs. Three coats of pink paint later, and that black blob you saw in the curtain picture is now a pink dinning room table for the Jelly Beans play area. (I needed something to keep me occupied while the paint dried on my food tray.)

I stayed up all night working on the tray and the pink table, and didn't get to bed until around 6am. Needless to say, I definitely have an addiction! 

Turn Worthless Shit into Gold! It's better than Crack!!!

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