A few little jobs

After fiddle faddling for a long time over a colour for my tip-shop ladder, I grabbed a colour chip and went to the hardware store the other day.

I decided to try a water-based enamel and ended up with a British Paints brand. I have to say I wasn't very impressed. The paint seemed really rubbery, but maybe it's just because I am used to oil-based enamels.

Anyway, since I had soooo much paint, I grabbed some more of my storage baskets and painted them too. Boy, it's so much more tedious than spray painting.

Here they are. I quite like the colour :)

While on a blue theme I decided to get crafty and make some pillowcases from bits of fabric and ribbon I had stashed away.

It's nice to tick a few things off my holiday "to do" list.

Hope you are having a nice day xx

Storage - a mini project

It has been so long since I have posted anything remotely reno related. We've been in save mode so it has all had to go temporarily on hold. We hope to get back to it very soon and will start by completing the reno on my art/sewing/jewellery studio = my room!

On the weekend I busied myself with a mini-project - the storage. With 32 pigeon holes in my wall unit I have been trying to find a few storage solutions. I found these water hyacinth cubes at Officeworks that fit in the space really well. I wasn't keen on the natural colour so decided to spray them pale blue.

What do you think? I am happy with the results and am thinking of trying another colour - perhaps limey green?

For those of you who haven't seen, this is the wall unit that Lyndon and I built from scratch. Here is the beginnings of the process. Okay, so we didn't make the doors, they came from Bunnings, but we did everything else. Boy, that was challenging at times!

I'm not sure what to do about lighting. Above is a light I found at the tip-shop (sorry about bad pic) and funnily, I purchased it about a week or so before we bought the house. I thought I'd get it so we could buy a house to match! I just love the colour of the glass shade. Master of the tools (Lyn) rewired it and I think I might use it for the time being but I'm not sure I'll get enough light out of it. Maybe a couple of nice lamps will do the trick?

SO, any ideas what other colour might be nice for my storage? Do you like the limey-green idea? FYI the walls will be pale blue and white as well :)

ps. thanks for your birthday wishes for Rachael - she's read them all :)

Cheerio!!

Studio update

We worked very hard this weekend to get the shelving part of the storage under way. I am so tired from lifting, cutting and joining endless sheets of 16mm mdf. We now need to do a little smoothing off of some of the edges, join the units all together, put on some backing (the wall behind is very uneven), paint.....ie. lots to do!

These are the cupboard knobs I chose for the doors. An ebay bargain.

Once the unit is finished we then have to do some plastering, get skirting board to match, picture rail, improve lighting etc etc!!