Lazy + Cheap

Being the lazy painter I am, I didn't sand the hutch frame... so that is probably why it has required five coats (Behr paint with primer)!  I told myself five is enough!  If I can still see brown wood, I'm hallucinating.  If you see brown wood, you TOO are hallucinating!  :)  Projects take some time..eh?  Good time.  What's left?  Well.... I'm done with the paint brush and now I pick up the can for some detail work.  I'm reusing the old hinges and I'm hoping they will be invisible by painting them white.  I also needed new handles as the old ones were very ugly and I think I tossed them early on (or they are somewhere in the garage, I'll never find them).  As I looked for handles to match my adorable hutch, I found these ones on Anthropolgie's website. 

Lovely, yes? 

 $18 ea

I still need to buy handles for my kitchen cabinets so I just had to say NO.  Sad.  I'm sure they will end up in a perfectly well-adjusted home - just not mine.  So, I leave one happy place and enter another.  I ventured out to Goodwill with the hope of finding six cute handles.  Amazed, I found six handles bundled neatly together for $2.99 - what a deal!  They were also the exact dimension I needed to fit the pre-drilled holes - 3" hole to hole.  Are they cute?  Heh... not exactly.  We shall see how successful I am with the can of spray paint. 

 

 So brassy. 

Waiting...for their turn. 

I actually saw them at Lowes (one of my other stops today).  About $3 each I still got a good deal.  Until I'm willing to pay the big bucks, these will have to do.  

I also made progress in other ways tonight.  I unpacked ONE whole box.  Pretty exciting.  I know the hutch isn't done but I put in the shelves and displayed all my stemware.  Considering it's been packed away for more than a year and moved around numerous times, only one champagne glass was broken.  I was giddy to display some sort of decor! 

Life is slowly being breathed into this little house of ours...