Paintin' The Town Red

Okay...maybe just the house...but it may as well be the town. I am on a red rampage!

First, I painted one of our side tables in our living room...they are actually nesting tables but I only painted the top table...the espresso color underneath looks pretty showing through and it mutes the red so it's not so HELLO.

It started out looking like this...

See bottom left

But now...it looks like this!

 

At first, I wasn't sure that I liked it...but my husband kept raving about it...and then my sister came by and SHE raved about it. So...what did I do?

Yeah, I decided to paint something ELSE red...

So our sofa table also went from this...

To this...

 

Talk about DRAB to FAB.  

(I know that was SUCH a huge cheeseball thing to say and yet, I said it anyway...deal)

Ahhhhhhh...

I'm in love.

Okay?  It's true.

I often fall in love with inanimate objects.

Not gonna lie.

I was sitting outside, sharing at my masterpiece when my daughter came out, sat beside me and asked, "Mommy, what are you doing?"

"Mommy is just looking at my new table..."

"Why?!"

"You'll hopefully understand when you are older."

The truth is...I could have spent hours out there just staring at the table. Why? I don't know. I just love turning nothing into something. It makes me happy.

My sincere hope is that my daughter has that same passion when she is older. I swear that it's one of the best things of this life.


So, now, of course, I'm thinkin'...what ELSE can I paint red?

Oh, by the way, if you're interested, I used Colonial Red by American Accents by Rust-Oleum (smooth satin finish) .

I used my leftover chalkboard paint to paint the knobs. They were originally brushed nickle.

So, what do you think? Good make-over or bad make-over?