a little before and after

Remember this guy? Well Tyler got in a cleaning mood yesterday and totally cleaned our whole house (one of my favorite things about him) and this to-do got caught in the cross-hairs. I came home and it was all spray painted, ready to hang. The pattern is really shown off now that it is all the same color, it went from brassy to clean modern in no time. Somethings really get a new life when they are spray painted. Especially when they were only $1 at an estate sale. 

brand new

Remember this guy? Well he got a face-lift and is now one of the focal pieces of our living room. I love how it turned out. It is so fun to transform thing we find at thrift stores. Now I need to re-style our mantle. It suddenly has a lot of room now that we shifted things around. I am dying to paint the inside of our now sealed up fireplace, or do something. It seems like getting done with one project always leads to another.