The hutch made it home!!!!!!

Yes indeedy it did!!!!

I was at work and had decided not to take my truck seeing as I hadn't heard from the hutch lady, and then lo and behold as soon as I pulled up on site - I got an email giving me the dimensions and saying "see you later!!!!!"- eeeeeeek

I quickly ran outside - flipped all the seats down in the SUV and pulled the front seats as far forward as they'd go - and as luck would have it - it would fit (only just mind you!!!)

Here's the picture from the ad that I saw it from first

Not much to go on but you know when  you get that "I can totally do - um - something with that!!!!

The only problem now was we had a lot of snow at home, and with my husband away and the snow drifts not allowing me to pull up to the deck to unload the hutch. I was stumped.

It sat in the back o the SUV for 2 days. Then finally I got a moment of "right - I'm big and strong surely  can get this into the house" - aside from the fact that I need the vehicle empty for other stuff!!!!

It took about 20 minutes and a lot of choice language to finally haul it through 2ft of snow in some parts and into the house (up some stairs I might add too!)

Drying out in the kitchen on towels!!

I always knew what I was going to do with this - so using that wonderful transfer technique I told you about previously - it now looks like this

The only downside to that technique is that it only really works properly on semi porous / more rough surfaces - so if you use a paint with any kind of sheen, the transferred image will be very faint - meaning you have to painstakingly paint in all the lettering etc with diluted paint.

Looking at it now I still think it needs more distressing - it looks a bit "new" Hmm - I might even antique it some more instead!???

Oh what the heck i'll decide in the morning ;)

It does come with 2 shelves but i only used one for the purpose of the photo, it can also be used as a TV hutch due to the fact that it has 2 circles cut out of the back - however you can't see thees cos they are cunningly disguised with 2 baskets. I love doing that you know - the whole "if you can't see it, it isn't there"!!!

I am now off to bed and will figure out how to hide all the laundry thats piling up :)

Bored headboard

Remember that awesome birthday 6 hour round trip to collect furniture? Well the dressers are still sat here (i'll get round to doing something with them), but the thorn in my side was the headboard.

I mean, does anyone even have a double bed anymore??? As I'm a waste not want not kinda gal I went to bed the other night with thoughts - what in the blue blazes can I do with that headboard?????

It's about 4.5 feet long - solid wood, no fancy frillies on it. To be honest its a big ol' plank of wood with some 2x2's as legs to attach to a bed.

Hmmmmmm

Plank of wood, plank of wood. What's long - and goes in your house that looks like a big plank of wood (other than a shelf)?????

A COAT RACK!!!!!

A couple coats of Benjamin Moore Advance in the Mayonnaise colour, and I was wondering how to do some nifty wording without spending a ton of money on a Cricut, or a ton of money on varying stencils (I'm kinda cheap like that!)

Well stone the crows - I found this AWESOME tutorial, on how to transfer lettering to wood using just your inkjet printer / water and a paint brush. I kid you not it really is that easy

Here's a link to a great tutorial and a fab blog for instructions on how to do it :) Click Me!

It's so easy even I could do it and not mess it up. But imagine the world off possibilities that opens up for putting lettering on everything, quickly and cheaply - without needing the skills of a master sign-writer!!!!!

That, my friends, is my kinda party!!!!

In other news I'm a bit disappointed that the hutch I was supposed to pick up tomorrow, looks like its not coming home with me. The online seller has all of a sudden gone quiet since me asking for an address (paramount for actually getting somewhere) a couple days ago.

Oh well.

I suppose I have other furniture here to be going on with. But I was sooooo excited about this hutch and what it was going to be :(

Shabby Chic - urrrghhhhhhhhhhhh

Lol

Theres buzz words and phrases that really yank my chain. 'Stainless steel appliances and granite countertops' for some reason riles the hell out of me. As does 'Pop of colour'. And the latest is 'shabby chic'. I don't know why - they just do.

So when I decided refinish this awesome console table and matching side table (the latter of which is still wet on my kitchen floor as we speak - i'll edit this post and put pics of it up to), I totally went for the traditional off white, aged / distressed shabby chic  look that I actually really love (ooh oooh picking up a display hutch type thing that I have an AMOOZING idea to turn into a hallway storage coat hanging shoe area - but I don't pick it up til Wednesday so i'll leave it here for now!!!)

And guess who did the thing with the thing of not taking before pics (this is getting old yeah :( )

Anyway it looked a bit like this

Apart from not as well staged, and with maybe some of my washing baskets on top of it - and random tools etc while it sat around waiting for it's paint job.

It's weird, with some bits of furniture (I try not to call them 'pieces' thats another word that grinds on me lol) you know instantly as soon as you clap eyes on them - what you are going to do, so without further ado - here's what I did

I really really really wanted to keep this (and its matching table) but I just don't have the room. And the same will apply to the storage unit too.

Maybe I can get hubby to build me a big storage type staging housey type area, and I can refinish all these bits and bobs (see how the word pieces wasn't used ;) ) and just keep them forever and ever - like an old mad furniture collecting English woman.

Or maybe not!