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I’m planning to become more focused on writing, so I’ll be posting new blogs daily starting tomorrow – September 1, 2010. My plan is to write something every day. It may be comedy, it may be something else, but I’ll write something and post it here, EVERY DAY!
Working on the guest bedrooms before I have guests, and before the house hotting party in August.
I picked this up for the 2nd guest room – a sideboard on clearance at JCPenney. This is the room where we’ll house the project stuff like my sewing machine, Mike’s camera equipment, etc… the project room. I thought a sideboard would be a good choice because I can use it to store fabric and supplies for sewing. I was going to use one of the fantastic walnut dressers I just picked up from craigslist (photos to come), but figured this would be a better fit for the room’s purpose.
Tomorrow marks our first delivery of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables from Timber Creek Farms.
Cricket over at Being Booga had a post not so far back that talked about food co-ops. I had looked into doing this when we lived in Springfield, but since moving up to Chicago, I completely forgot about it. Then my friend Mary was talking about TCF and I thought, why not?
It also helps that our kitchen is now 89% functional. Thanks to the holiday weekend, and the hubby, the stove is installed, the microwave range hood is installed and our new cast iron sink is nearly installed. Unfortunately, the cast iron sink is darn heavy, and it was dropped on the very edge of our counter top (yeah, the ones with concrete), and we have to touch up the area around the sink.
I hope to update soon with some Ikea Hacker type projects using the 2 Malm dressers that did not fare well in the move(s). I am thinking of using the sides of the dressers as “frames” for an art project utilizing some photography, screws, washers and plexiglass. More to come…
Click this link to see our Counter Top Slideshow and Gallery on Flickr. It has more photos than the blog entries here, and shows the good, bad and ugly.
If you have a question about our experience with Skimstone, please reply to this post and we’ll answer as soon as we can. Thanks!
Applying the topcoat seemed easy, in theory. The topcoat is a milky white substance that comes in a bottle. You simply squirt it on the surface of the counter and then smooth it over evenly.
The Modern Masters instructions say to use an application cloth/pad like you would to finish a wood floor (I would assume to avoid things like lint, etc)… but we weren’t able to find anything like that at Lowes, Home Depot or Menards. What we did find was a foam paint applicator – it seemed like a good solution as it wasn’t too spongy and didn’t result in leaving lint behind.
We waited the eight hours between the final color coat and applying the top coat as instructed. We waited 1 hours between each coat of topcoat to apply the next.
The topcoat gave the counters a lovely and unexpected conditioned leather look. In the finished kitchen photos (to be posted in a later blog, we will try to capture this).