This is what it looked like in September.
(That piano? We bought that at the estate sale also. But we’ll save that beast-of-a-story for another day.)
I had big plans for this hutch: sanding, painting, new hardware…it looked beautiful in my mind. And I’ve been wanting a hutch for our kitchen for a long time. But the ones I like (old, vintage-looking ones) are expensive and if I found one in our price range it was modern and cheap-looking. Boo.
So when I got this one at the auction next door for $65 I was really pumped. Pumped.
And then I realized how much work sanding, priming, painting, and new hardware is. And I was a lot less pumped. Much less pumped.
See, I make all these giant plans and they start out well, but some times I bite off more than I can chew and then wish someone else could take over for me.
But I saw it through…sort of.
What started out as sanding, ended up being more of a “sandpaper wiping.”
I primed like a beast because that’s super-easy (just being honest here, folks).
Paint coat #1: got a little sloppy, but finished.
Paint coat #2: a whole lot more sloppy. This is when I decided that the “look” I was going for was “vintage farm kitchen” where my hutch could look worn and used. Mission accomplished after the second coat (because it would have needed 2-3 more coats to look perfect and at this point I just didn’t care).
We moved the hutch into the kitchen on Halloween afternoon before our families came over because I needed more space in the kitchen to set stuff.
And then this weekend, exactly five months after it came into the kitchen, I finally bought hardware for it. It wasn’t expensive hardware and it wasn’t even a time-consuming hunt. I don’t know why it took five months to go to Menards and buy some handles. It just did.
And here it is:
The paint is streaky and it’s already scratched up from being the catch-all in the kitchen, but it’s mine and I love(hate) it. But now I know why they cost so much to buy this way. Because it’s a pain in the ass to do.
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