School Room Redo - The Painting

The painting and the painting and the painting.

I spent part of our first week of summer break painting our porch french doors RED.. Whose idea was that??? It took FOUR coats of paint and four mornings of painting to FINALLY be finished. It took our idiotic kitty Punkin all of FOUR seconds of being shut on the porch to scratch a patch of said red paint from my beautiful door. Why must we have claws, again?

ANYWAY, last week, The Boy and I dismantled the school room while one sister was at VBS and one sister was at Driver's Ed. We gave our "soft fern" green school walls a little fresh boost with "celery stick" green to better match the dining area.

Then, I tackled the tired wooden desk and shelves in the room. The desk belonged to little boy Hero. It is wood except for the desktop...which is wood-looking laminate. This is why I held off painting the desk these last 20 years. Finally, I had had ENOUGH of the pitiful sad desk. I found an "expert" at Lowe's who assured me it could be done and that's all I needed to hear to breathe new life into this little desk.  After deciding on a beautiful shade of teal called Caribe by Behr, I got busy and (((drum roll please))) here it is before and after:

Before. In need of some tlc.

After....happyhappyjoyjoy!

Same thing with two twin bookshelves that our neighbor made from scrap wood for us years ago. They needed some personality.....to the tune of Caribe by Behr and Grape Juice purple by Valspar. Here they are:

Before...not bad, just blah.

After....fun fun fun!!!