Anie's Space

After the initial painting of the kitchen I knew that I wanted the cabinets painted but it took a few years before I was blessed to have my mom come to town and help me get that giant project done. To start, we took all the doors off (make sure you tag each one so that you know where they came from!) and we removed all the hardware. There are lots of posts out there that give you step by step instructions on painting you kitchen cabinets.     I'm not going to do that here.   I will however, tell you that there is a LOT of sanding involved, especially if someone was kind enough to coat your oak cabinets in a high gloss cherry Polyurethane!!  Can you see why I hated them so much?  You can't see the gloss, but you can sure see how uneven the finish was. The cabinet boxes were the easy part.  The hard part was the doors.  All those little groves and the two levels made it difficult to sand and to paint. We used plastic sheetin...

One of the first things we did when we bought our house was to paint the fireplace. Here's what it looked like when we first looked at the place. We later learned that others we knew had looked at it too but couldn't get past the fire-engine red fireplace.   Thankfully, my mom, sister, and I were able to provide the proper treatment and give it a new life.  After priming it we painted it the dark color, then used a "dry roller" with the medium color and then sponged/ ragged, a third lighter color and a little brown.  It gave it a more dimensional look, more like real brick.   See the difference between the top half and the lower half!  It's starting to look like real bricks again. We later learned that the mantle was removeable.  I recommend that you always check that first.  It sure would have saved us a lot of time and effort. Here we are adding the final colors, ragging on a  few d...

Hello and welcome to Anie's Space!  This is a place where I hope we can share a lot of things, but especially tips and tricks for decorating, design, organization, and garden projects. This is my first time as a "blogger" so you'll have to excuse me as I learn just what I'm doing here.  Ok, so what am I doing here?  First and foremost, I had some craft / organizational ideas I wanted to share on  Pintrest  and didn't know how to do that other than to have a blog, so I guess that's the main reason we're here, although I also love the idea of sharing information and learning new things from you all out there.  So, Welcome,  I'm truly glad to have you visit!!