stripping...

Tyler and I were finally able to find some time this weekend to start on one of our many projects!! Many of you saw the hutch that we got for free off of craigslist a few months ago and we've finally started it's transformation.

Please notice my lovely outfit, it was about 50 degrees in our garage and I was wearing my "work" clothes that include a nice pair of slippers and my thick socks and sweat pants. I'm holding my new favorite tool, the electric sander. We bought this especially for this project because it's our biggest yet. I'm pretty much in love with it.  

Our garage has become painting central as we're also painting a metal side table and 3 pieces of wicker furniture for the sun porch (photos to come) What can we say, we pretty much never like to leave furniture the way we get it. 

Here is the base stripped all the way down. Only had to remove 4 layers of crappy paint. You can see the nastiness on the door. We plan to finish the bottom and put it inside first and then finish the top when we have time. We've become very productive after 6:30PM when Adelaide goes to sleep. Just bring the monitor out to the garage and paint to the sounds of Addy's humidifier. 

Just needs one more coat of paint, some new hardware and some fantastic wallpaper to finish!