Chandelier Makeover Round 2

Brass chandelier makeover time! Check out the dust on this puppy. 

This chandelier belongs to the dining room. It's been down for quite some time while I decided what color scheme I was going for in there (for when we tackle that room in the future). 

First thing I did was wipe all the dust off and then I taped off all the electrical sockets (where the light bulb goes) - no idea if that's what you call them. 

All cleaned up and brassy. 

Then I brought everything outside to where my cardboard was still lazily sitting on the grass - the dead grass now. 

After many trips searching for gold spray paint (this stuff is hard to find) - I stumbled upon this. It's "pure gold" by Rustoleum. And it's $7.97. That's pretty pricey in the spray paint world. 

All was good and I was all set up. 

Until the spray paint can start spraying on its own. Defective. Seriously? BACK to Home Depot I go to return it and buy another bottle. Once I got home, I started spraying. Here it is all spray painted and gold. 

See the difference?

I do! This "pure gold" was more of a champagne I'd say. Gold is such a hard color to find. Some can be very yellow and some are too bright and brassy. In the end, whatever color this is, I like it :)

Weekend Recap(s)

While I obviously had the concept of finishing the bathroom on my mind, Josh had other plans. He decided that we needed to organize his tools. Also, we had my parents truck so we were on a mission to buy sheet rock and baseboards. Are you asleep yet?

While the idea of all of this seems quite boring, I actually have a few before and afters. Any organization geeks reading? I'm one! Also, you have to remember that we are doing this all ourselves. So while a lot of times there aren't any dramatic before and afters, there's still a lot of hard work going on.

At the beginning of the weekend, our dining room was home to our tools. Remember?

Josh decided to categorize things into toolboxes. That way he could just grab a box for whatever project he's working on and put it all away in the box at the end. Now we have a "plumbing box", "painting box", "electrical box", etc. Inside one of these boxes looks like this.

And their new home is UPSTAIRS in the closet out of the way. I can breathe again! Or eat at the dining room table. 

A little shopping shot. Here are some of our new baseboards. We're replacing them throughout the house because ours are nasty. FYI, we made FOUR trips to Lowes/Home Depot this weekend. 

Oh and if you made it this far down, check out what we did LAST weekend. Hence the lack of posts last week :)

So our life isn't ALL housework and organization. Probably about 80% of it is. If we aren't here at home doing housework - we're usually out to dinner. Last weekend we went to visit our best friends in New Orleans. Here's a little photo story of our night. Thank you Amanda and Braxton, our wonderful hosts, who planned a great day/night! 

Shots anyone? No thanks that's gross! 

Hope everyone has a great week!