Me: "But I've been waiting 19 years to do this stuff! NINETEEN YEARS!"
Paul: "You're driving me insane."
Humph! Under my breath, "Turtle."
So I agreed to try to slow down a bit.
From what I understand, one thing that seems to accompany home improvement is stress for the non artsy types. I can see the finished product in my mind and I can deal with the unfinished parts because I can already see it finished in my mind's eye. This is not so with the non artsy people. All they see is a mess. So since I value my marriage and I value my husband's sanity, I took a step back.
But I'm still an artist. And a Running Rabbit Artist at that. I'm the type that can go go go go and have a bunch of projects going on at the same time. Which means the kitchen is not finished. At all. In fact, I've not continued work on it. I jumped headlong into another project, and then another, and yet another!
And that's when my husband had his moment of frustration with me and we had the above conversation.
So, I now have a bunch of unfinished projects but the good news is that we talked it out and came to an understanding and agreement. No more new projects started until we finish the ones we started. (Read: I started...)
One of those finished projects is the dining room chandelier. And my husband is right - it's good to finish something before jumping into the next project.
Here's a picture of the dining room chandelier that was here. Paul hated it with a passion. He was always hitting his head on the sharp point on the bottom. I was indifferent to it, being "fun-sized" as my darling daughter likes to say (read short), but I knew it wasn't in line with the style I was going for so it was easy to take that thing down.
We looked around at new chandeliers at home improvement stores.
Holy Mackerel! Those things are expensive! Not going to happen, even if we had the money. No way was I parting with that much cash for a stinking light fixture.
Luckily for me, my husband is great at finding good deals from online auctions and yard sales.
Luckily for him, I'm great at changing those good deals to make them look amazing.
We're a good team. :)
Paul found this ugly chandelier on an online auction. The gold was so 1980's and 90's. It was hideous. Plus it had this ugly bulbous round ball hanging on the bottom.
But the shape and overall style was perfect! He showed it to me and asked me what I thought and I could see this ugly duckling as the swan it truly was. I said "Yes! Buy it!"
We got it for $8.00 Score!! And then we bought a can of black satin finish spray paint for $3.00.
Total for this project $11! Can't beat that!
The first step was to sand the chandelier down so the spray paint would adhere to it.
Then I spray painted the whole thing except for the "candle sticks." I had to let it sit and dry for a couple hours and then I put a second coat of paint on it.
It's finally taking shape and my husband could see what was in my mind's eye with this one!
Sorry about the cluttered garage, but we had it hanging in there for me to paint it. See the ugly ball on the table? I started to paint it without thinking. Oops! I never intended to use it.
And here's the finished chandelier in the dining room! Doesn't it look beautiful? Now that it is black and doesn't have that ugly ball hanging from the bottom it is perfect for the Colonial look I was going for!
The next step with the dining room is ripping out that carpet and laying down new flooring. I'll actually be doing that this coming week. We want to power through the dining and living room floor to get it done so my husband can relax a bit without a bunch of unfinished areas in the house. After the floor I'll focus on the kitchen and actually finish that. Yes, I will. This time I promise because otherwise my husband will ring my neck. Lovingly, of course. :D
Tomorrow I hope to blog about the hallway carpet I ripped out. Yeah, that was another project.... Hee hee!
It's no wonder my husband was about to lose his sanity with me! LOL!
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