Hutch Make Over

I finally got the hutch done!

I worked and worked on it last,

week in that awful heat!  I came in

one morning after working on

it, and it was 97 degrees!  Way too

hot for me in the morning,

but I kept at it...We took off the luan

that was on the back and replaced

it with beadboard, I like the look of

it a lot better.  Well, here it is, how do

you like it? 

A closer view....

Here is the before picture!  If you

enlarge the picture you can see that

there are ribbons and flowers painted

on it, but I saw it's potential...I saw

one at an auction earlier this spring

that I liked because it was colonial, but

I had already been there for 5 hours

and it was going to be quite awhile

longer, so we left...Anyway, after 6 trips

to get the paint mixed, I finally got this

one mixed at Ace and it is called

Cherrywood....I can't tell ya what the

color I used on the beadboard, I found

it in the OOPS section, of the paints

in Walmart and they didn't put the name

of the color on the sticker....My next

project is to get the ladder hung up in

the kitchen, under the light....I am not

going to do it, because I was getting some

crock pitchers down from the shelf above

the french doors, and I lost my balance

and I stepped down on a big basket

(that I bought the other day) and then

fell against the shelf full of crocks....Ouch!

I hurt the back of my arm and knocked

my back out of whack, but I didn't break

a pitcher!!!  I will leave it to hubby to put

the stuff back on the shelf and to hang the

ladder!  I bought some black cup hooks

to put on it to hang things from....I might

even put some pip berries on it, too...

I still have to post the things I got over

the weekend, yet....

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Bear Hugs~Karen