DIY Projects

     I know this is silly, but hearing Tyler talk to his buddies about our "D-I-Y Project" is so cute.. just hearing him say D- I - Y makes me giggle... Anyways, we have been searching for ways to remodel on a budget. Most of our big stuff is done and now it's on to the little things. Little things that we don't wanna skimp out on, yet don't need to spend alot of money fixing. 

     FOR EXAMPLE... lemme tell you about all our gross yellowish-white light and outlet covers that we have ALL over the house. We wanted to replace them with nice updated oil rubbed bronze fixtures. However, each one can range from $8-9 per fixture and we have about 40 throughout our whole house.. not even kidding! So my genius husband found this spray paint (I think he has secretly been on Pinterest!!) that you can spray these fixtures with.. Check out the pics.. We were SO excited at how they turned out.. We bought like 4 cans of the Oil Rubbed Bronze Spray (the middle one) and only used one can on the outlet fixtures. (enough for 2 coats, which you can see in the last pic they are darker) You can't even tell they are still plastic, yet we didn't have to fork out the extra expense for them all. 

     After our surprising success with the light and outlet covers.. Ty looked at me with big eyes and said "Go find some more things we can spray"!!!!! So on the search I went.. I found this god awful yellowish cream door bell ringer cover thing and this random stairway light fixture that looks like it belongs on the Titanic! 

     Went to town on these bad boys and they look good as new. I will take more pics once we hang them back up. I couldn't be around the spray paint fumes too long so we had to take a break and go eat! Momma bear was hungry! But seriously, what a difference, Right?!