Before and After, and After, and After......

Ok, so here is what it looks like now, i imagine this will last about 5 minutes, because i have changed this sideboard 32 times....

It all started with a black hutch from Target, which was fine, except I always knew it would be temporary, and i'm not a great lover of particle board furniture, but it worked ok until i found something else..

Then i scored this cool sideboard for free...!

So i decided to copy Miss Mustard Seed, (look at the dresser thingy in her dining room... omg it's so cool), so i painted the sideboard blue and white to be just like her... oh brother, like that's possible...

so here it is in various stages of painting and messing with it....

(here is where i tried to copy "Simply Me" the most beautiful blog ever... by having lots and lots of flowers and roses casually tossed in a bucket)
her photos will make you want to kill yourself they are so pretty ...

so i tried distressing it, and rubbing dark paint in the creases and i added glass knobs to the top drawers, and it was ok, but something about it bothered me, i think you know how that is... it just keeps bothering you until you do something impulsive, like fling it out the front door. it just seemed to "countryfied" to me...
(i don't even know if contryfied is a real word)
plus i wanted it shiny so i painted polyurethane on it, which i thought was polycrylic, but it wasn't and then it kind of yellowed...

Soooooo, then i tried painting it a grayish brown, well that looked boring with the brown top, so then i painted it all white again, which was too white,
even my 23 year old son said,...
"mom look at it, it's too white",
so then i painted it Benjamin Moore "linen white" , which seemed much better, and i like it better, but..... it's kinda boring
plus i'm not sure if it's legal to put that many coats of paint on anything really... i mean, how many times can you change your mind and keep adding paint... is there actually a limit where the piece becomes one ooozing blob of paint that never dries ...

Then i decided the framed burlap thing hanging over it, wasn't working, so i hung my favorite meadow painting over it... but then i didn't know where to put the cool burlap thing, so i set it up over my mantel... but now the painting on the mantel has to go, and i stole the painting now hanging over the sideboard from my bedroom, so now there's a big empty void on the wall in there.... GGGAAAAAHHHH

(that basket underneath is where we put our recycling)then i got distracted and tried to nail one of those corbels sitting
on the sideboard, in the entry to the living room,

and while i was looking for a screw... saw my favorite rose...and took a picture of of it to show you guys, it's called "pearly gates", it's a climber, and you have to get one!
i talk to it everyday and tell it how pretty it is...

and took a picture the front of my house with the white iris blooming.....

and then took a photo of my living room because the lighting was good...
and at that point decided i need to repaint all the walls a pretty gray

and Finally decided that this picture i saved from a little antique shop selling this hutch, (WHICH WAS SOLD OF COURSE !), is all i ever really wanted anyway...

and i'm pretty sure my life would be complete if i could have this hutch... that's how shallow i am

So this my friends, is total adult Attention Deficit Disorder and is the perfect selling point for hiring an interior decorator for a consultation, even if it is just for one hour, worth every penny i'm sure!

and i'm still not satisfied with the cool, free, sideboard

the end