Showing posts with label stairway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stairway. Show all posts

3.21.2011

My committment issues

Remember about 2 months ago when I pounced on a great bargain on antique frames compliments of my buddy CL...

And then I spent an entire snowy Saturday painting them the avocado green that didn't get used in the kitchen....

Then, in the midst of my excitement over Command Strips and creating my plate wall, I hung one painted frame up in my stairway with a Command Strip (yes, only one).

And the rest of the frames sat in my sun room for weeks upon weeks.  (phew that color is way off)

I didn't want to hang the rest up. I wasn't loving the color on my walls though. It's too close in tone. They would just blend in. I didn't know what I wanted to do with them, I was over the project. Bleh.

So when I awoke to a sunny Saturday I knew it was time to suck it up and actually do something with these. And I returned from the hardware store with 3 cans of spray paint and a little giddyup in my step!

A few hours of spray painting later I had these plum puppies!

My momma helped me hang up newspaper templates so we could figure out which direction and where each frame would go



And finally, many many days after I started this project.... thanks to my awesome parents who helped me put those sawtooth thingamajiggers into the backs of all of them, I now have a (for the most part but I want to add more) completed frame wall in my stairway!


I have plans to get more smaller size frames and little doodads to add to the collection (a few "C"s, a mirror or two, who knows what else...). I'm loving my bright, cheery purple path though!

Side note: it's REALLY hard to get a decent picture of a stairway!!

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2.09.2011

Avocado a'go-go

I spent a snowy Saturday this past weekend painting my Craigslist frames.I started out with white spray paint. That was the equivalent of a fail. I'm not sure if I got crappy spraypaint or what but it was either barely coating the frames or dripping all over the place. Yes, I probably should have sanded and primered first, but I'm impatient and didn't feel like it. Don't lecture.

So I decided to just brush them on. And went on a search for the leftover trim paint we had. Couldn't find it... but I did find a gallon of the original kitchen paint color (that was vetoed due to the flooring)-Valspar Light Avocado. After approximately 6 seconds of debating ("hmm I drive a rearwheel drive sports car, therefore running to Lowe's for white paint in the 4 inches of snow that just accumulated in the past hour is out of the question and I want to paint NOW") I decided to go for it!(Contrary to popular belief leading from the first photo... they are not neon -thank goodness)

I'm quite happy with how they turned out! I put about 3 coats on each frame, and made sure to get all the inside/outside/around/crevices. I think they'll pop well against my Sherwin Williams Wool Skein stairway walls (that in reality are so much more gray than this swatch)!

Now I just need to find time and a ladder and get them hung!

Domestically Speaking

(I'm linking this up to Maryann's Power of Paint!)
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1.26.2011

Today I love

I scored 8 big antique wooden frames (Some plain, some ornate) off CraigsList for a whopping $25 last night. That's like $3 a frame! Cheaper than Goodwill and WAY cheaper than ones I've been scoping out at the antique malls


A little step closer to completing my stairway to heaven!


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Sigh... I get so giddy over a good deal and a hands on project!
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1.05.2011

What I'm Envisioning: Stairway

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I came across this stairway last week on Cottage Insticts and fell in love. What's funny is that it's almost the same color as my stairway, and I too have a doorway at the bottom left of the stairs (dining room) as well as another to the right (living room)

I hope to begin scoping out Goodwill's near me and start collecting some cool old frames and mirrors soon!

Here's a shot of my stairway while it was undergoing a major wallpaper teardown! I'll have to remember to snap a "after" photo one of these days!

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