Long Term Project

We are starting a long term project on a house that was built in the 50's/60's.  There is a lot to do. Our charge is to rework the whole house, but our budget is very small, so much of what we are doing is reworking what is already there.  Our first project is the kitchen.  We decided the most economical thing to do in here was to paint the cabinets and  change the lighting.  Here is the before shot.

Before

Here is the after shot.  We painted the cabinets Simply White from Benjamin Moore.  We had it color matched at Lowe's.  The yellow hardware was replaced with satin nickel.  We replaced the lighting with led  flat lights.  We'll show a hero shot once all the projects are done and the whole house is staged.

 This girls room needed a dresser.  Purchasing a durable dresser was out of the budget.  On this sight froufrugal I found instructions on how to create an aged silver finish.  So I bought a vintage dresser from a dresser repairman for $60 and began to refurbish it.

Here is the dresser before.As you can see it still has some great handles!

In this step I have primered the drawers with Krylon Primer and then Painted them with two coats of Krylon Metalic Silver Spray Paint.

In this step I used a rag and a paint brush to coat the drawers with Valspar Antiquing  from Lowes.  

Pictures of Finished Dresser to Follow.....Finished Dresser

I needed to come up with a cheap but nice looking window valance for this kitchen.  The valance is actually a rug from Ikea.  It cost $7.  I use two strips of pine 2" wide by 3/4" deep.  I cut the strips 2" longer than the width of the window and used a staple gun to attach the rug to the wall side of the boards and the exposed edge on the top board
, one at the top and one at the bottom.   The top board is then screwed directly into the wall under the fabric.  I raised this curtain about 6 inches above the window to give it some height and still be able to  have as much light in the room as possible.

For another window in the house I  used fabric from Ikea instead, and only a top board.  I used iron on fabric fuse to "hem" the sides and bottom of the curtain.  The curtain, once again is stapled to the sides and back of the board.  The board is then screw directly into the wall.