Thursday, September 1, 2011

First Pinterest Project

Man, I am loving Pinterest! 
I have to say I'm actually pretty glad I didn't sign up until after our kitchen was done. I was already overwhelmed with all the decisions I had to make...I would have been a mess finding picture after picture after picture of amazing kitchens I would have wanted and not being able to decide which to pick.
But anyways, I've "pinned" tons of fun ideas and this is the first one I actually did.

 Inspiration:
My version:

This toy box is pretty beat up...it was my at my parent's house for a long time. I had painted it navy about a year ago.  So i put on some masking tape. Didn't even measure.


Had some leftover gray paint that we used in the basement and that I used on our kitchen doors. 
Removed the tape and voila!


When I painted it navy I didn't do any prep work or add any poly, so when I took off the tape some of the paint peeled off, but I actually kind of like it:




But really, I'm not even going to pretend it's anywhere near as cool as the inspiration, but it was "free" and took about 30 minutes. Can't beat that!

2 comments:

The Sneaky Mommy said...

Love it! You couldn't get that sort of amazing character in the colors and stripes if you tried! (okay, maybe you could, but I definitely could not!) It looks awesome!
Pinterest = my entertainment during 5 am feedings!

une autre mère said...

That is awesome! Great job! Now I'm frantically searching my house for anything I can paint stripes on! :)

So... I haven't done Pinterest yet because I'm afraid I'll spend too much time on it... but this project is tempting me more and more... I may just have to give in. :)

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