Project UG

When my George leaves me...or I leave him...which has happened way too often over the past year, I start on a new project to try and pass the time. While driving through a neighborhood in Orlando we saw two dressers on the side of the road needing a home. They were free and made out of real wood so we threw them in the back of the car. For Christmas George gave me a beautiful print of the Manti Temple in a distressed black frame. So I decided to try and copy the frame-look and try it out on the dresser.

The guy at Ace was beyond helpful...to the point of annoyance. He really wanted to help me get the right sand paper and paint and I really just wanted to look around on my own and and figure stuff out. I did a rough-over sanding job and then got a little too spray paint happy and had to sand off the excess paint. Luckily George was back in time to help me sand off my mistake and also give me a lesson on proper spray painting. I should have done more graffiti growing up...who knew there was such vital technique to painting with a can! I shuffled the dresser and drawers back and forth between our porch and the driveway to try to keep them out of the rain. And finally today I got around to doing the final bit of sanding. I'm pretty sure this would make a carpenter cringe, but you've gotta start somewhere!

It's going in the kitchen. The lack of counter space is killing me and I hate lugging these out of the cupboards every time I want to use them. Yay for free fixer-up-ers!