There are multiple home-improvement projects on my to-do list for the wedding off-season, so in an effort to motivate myself and keep me on track, I'm posting my November to-do list with before pictures (gasp!) to keep me honest.
We always host Thanksgiving at our home for various friends. Neither of us savors the idea of traveling to our respective home states for turkey day, so the party planner in me can't help but want to throw a little get-together here in LA. This Thanksgiving celebration will be doubly good because it happens to be hubby's 41st birthday that day (he'll die when he sees that I've outed him age-wise).
That was a long way of saying there are a few things I want to finish before Thanksgiving, so without further ado, here is my short list:
First project: Finish Gallery Wall - just a few things left to do: Print out last few photos for empty frames, decide definitively which wall to use (there are 2 walls under consideration), and finally, hang the darn things! Doesn't seem daunting at all, until you consider that the frames and photos have been laying in various stacks and piles (and sometimes moved from one pile to another) for months. No, really, months. See exhibit A- Gallery Wall Before Photo:
Exhibit A - Gallery wall in the making
Project 2 is a little more daunting: re-finish and re-cover kitchen dining chairs. In the vein of keeping it real, I've had these chairs for at least 4 years...and they've been in this condition that whole time. I'm sure if you know me in real life you've seen these chairs and wondered what's up with the gross chairs.
Well, I love 'em. Except for the bad seat and back covers. I have no idea what this style of chair is called, but I got them for $7 each at a thrift shop, and I loved the curved back and classic style. To spruce them up, I'm planning to sand and re-stain them all in a pecan finish, recover the seat and back rest covers in a charcoal grey velvet-like material, and clean up the existing nail heads (they look like brass) to re-use. Wish me luck!
Seems do-able, right? I've got exactly one month to get everything done. Wish me luck! I'll report back as I progress with more photos.
Do you have fall projects you'd like to share?
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