Kitchen Lighting Progress

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We started this kitchen lighting project eons ago it feels like. It really was only two months ago which, in the grand scheme of things isn’t that long ago. The last two months have been a whirlwind of trying to get the garden and animals up to speed before the oppressive summer heat hits and this little baby is here. As such most of the interior projects have gotten put on hold until we can breathe again after we get the watering system in place and the summer seedlings in the ground in the next month.

But before all that craziness started I did actually get one more step finished in the light project that I haven’t had a chance to share.

I am happy to report that I was successful in stripping all the paint off of our crazy looking half finished light shades:

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After a few more sessions with the paint stripper on some of the tougher spots of red, I used Rust-oleum’s Frosted Glass Spray Paint to frost the glass:

rustoleum frosted glass Lots of thin coats resulted in a quite satisfactory outcome. As with all of Rust-oleum’s products I was once

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Attaching Cabinet Doors

Dani’s Take:

A few weeks ago after we grew weary of pulling Noah out of the kitchen cabinets repeatedly, Kevin saved my sanity by attaching the cabinet doors. It took a bit of coaxing on my part to get him to tackle it and once he got into it I started realizing why he had been stalling.

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Turns out hanging cabinet doors is trickier than it looks. Rehanging them is easier if you have the exact same hardware and have marked each door (which I carefully did and then forgot to remark them after the paint dried–before we picked them up from their pretty little orderly setup- grrr). We had purchased new hinges for these cabinets though because the old ones were so old and were starting to fall apart. Which means that the holes were in slightly different spots than the original ones.

It was a flustering evening….something else had come up in the day that was on Kevin’s mind and we just weren’t getting into our groove at all. As such I spent most of the evening cleaning and left him to workout his own salvation frustrations. I hope it is encouraging to all that read our little journal here that we are totally human and actually do mess up things and cook dishes that totally flop, and fight and have rooms that are ripped apart. Because we do.

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