But, I wanted to show you another favorite little project I threw together this week. I am banning myself from any more projects until we are moved in by the end of this week, because what I should be doing right now is more packing.
I digress. Somehow, my husband has acquired several of those laminate dark, wood bookshelves over the years. Mostly from times when people would move or his office moved. Anyways, we own a small one, medium sized one, and LARGE one. (We're waiting for goldilocks any day now.) And they are just awful.
So I had this great idea to paint them. After googling "painting cheap bookshelves" I came across centsationalgirl and she had a great tutorial about products she used to redo an armoir. So I ran my happy self up to home depot looking for the Zissner product she recommended. However, the lady in the paint department STRONGLY disagreed that I could even do the project.
-You gonna have to sand that real good.
-Umm yes I know m'am.
-Well git that. (points to shelf in front of me)
-Uhhh, You're pointing at blue paint.
-No you gotta walk to the other aisle.
-Oh duh. Why couldn't I just read your mind. My bad.
Well after looking at a lot of products; I decided just a good 'ole bottle of Killz along with some sanding would do the job.
After getting my cheap rollers, getting my killz shaken, I was headed on my merry way out when I get screamed at: 'HONEY that ain't what i told you to git! That ain't watchu want." And do you know what I did? I WINKED AT HER. (Who does that? I'm not a winker.) And said "It'll be fine" and starting jogging toward the self checkout.
So I started with the tall book case. Sanded like crazy (much to the delight of my downstairs neighbors). Two coats of killz and two coats of a pretty light grey (that just looks white to me) and she was done!

The other, and most cool addition, is that my dad got me some old, awesome wood that I cut and nailed to the back of the bookcase. It's adorable, but cannot stand unless it is leaning against a wall. I'm sure the movers will appreciate that. :)
Love the wood backing of the shelves!! Are you selling these shelves?
ReplyDeleteI WOULD be willing to put these up for sale! I can also redo any you have, Madge! :)
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