As things are starting to come together in our apartment and the need for decorating is coming to a halt, I find myself slightly disappointed. I know Ben can’t rejoice enough. But for me, having small creative projects to do energizes my mind. In a lot of ways, it’s an outlet for my mind to “breathe” per se. I may appear to be working, but really, I am calm and content. For example, before we got hitched, I was scouring all the local discount stores and thrift stores for furniture for our new home. Although uncovering a great deal was satisfying in itself, I found more joy from the fact that I got to go home sand, prime and paint it. During that time, I enjoyed country jams along with my thoughts about my new life with Ben.
So, as you can tell, I enjoy small DIY projects. I was beside myself when I realized I could reuse those old coat hooks I replaced on the hat rack a couple of weeks ago. Since we repainted the living room a couple months ago, we took down our old key hanger. I had been wanting to find a salvaged antique one, but never got around to going out and looking. So, tired of throwing our keys in the fruit bowl, I decided it was time to take action. In addition to the key hooks, I wanted to update our mail keeper. Ben got this mail keeper from his grandmother and he wanted to hang on to it. I decided to update it and paint it white.
Here are few shots from my DIY project.
One coat of gray primer over the tarnished brass hooks
I applied two coats of candy apple red for a pop of color
The mail keeper: before
One coat of primer
Mail keeper: after
by Jenelle
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