Its finally my turn and I am so excited to share!!! When March began, I joined an amazing group of 3 other bloggers for
“It’s a Spring Thing Blog Hop”! We each took a Tuesday in March to bring to you, a spring project that we have taken on! I am the last to go, and I could not be happier with how everything turned out!!
Check out the awesome projects of Emily, Roeshel and Lana!!
I hope you all take a moment to link up your spring projects!! Everything goes!! Recipes, Pinterest Boards ( just be sure to copy the URL) DIY projects or just Spring Inspiration!! Once you all link up, the 4 of us will be choosing our favorites and announcing them in an April re-cap!!
For those of you who don’t know this blog ( HI!! thanks for reading today!!) My husband and I packed up our 3.5 yr old son, and moved from New York to Nashville right after Christmas! We are renting a house, and finding ways to upgrade, without spending a lot of money!! One of the things we have been dying to tackle is this Ikea Storage unit that my dad gave us. We use it as a “Bar”. Light wood really isn’t our style, so I was super excited when Lana invited me to be a part of this fun blog hop!! The bar was the first thing that came to mind! We love being social, and love our new home, so we cant WAIT to have spring parties!!
I knew right away that I wanted to add a pop of color to the inside, but wanted to stay pretty neutral on the outside. But FIRST, I had to dis-assemble. This was the easiest part. I started this project when it was 74 degrees and sunny outside. Little did I know, Nashville was about to be hit with a windy cold blowing storm that would last a full week..more on that later. On to dis-assembly.
I had begun the first pieces, when the wind picked up to 40 mph, and then, the rain came, and came…and came…Fast forward to this past weekend. Thank GOD my husband works for a high end street rod shop, We took all the pieces to their blasting booth. I know this is cheating..when you think of DIY, you don’t think of street rod blasting booths to paint your pieces in. But we did it, and it turned out great!
Green complete!! Now time for more sanding, and more taping! Time to paint the grey!
SO there it is!! My first spring project of 2013!! Now its your turn!! Please link up! Im dying to see what you have been up to!!
~
It turned out great. I cant wait to make it over to Nashville and bust into that thing!
Jeramie !! Thank you! Grant JUST got a vm from you that you sent this last weekend 🙁 I’m so sad he didn’t listen sooner!! You are always welcome here!! So sorry we missed you ;(
Omg! I have that same cabinet from Ikea, I got a long time ago. You have inspired me to turn it into a bar. I can’t seem to find a bar cart I like, so now I know what to do. Thanks for sharing! I’m so geek end right now!!!!
This comment has been removed by the author.