For FREEEEEE?!?!?!!?

So on my last post I showed you what I found on Craigslist FOR FREEEEE!!

Sorry still can't quite get over that.  Makes me want to break out into song "Weee are the champions weeeeee are the champions"  oh, sorry I do that sometimes.

It is a mid-century all wood dresser by Stanley with aluminum knobs.

I call it "my new holder of things from the kitchen so I can put in a dish washer" thingy. 

As much as I love it, it needed some updating.

Soooo I said to myself  "let's ombre this bad boy" and there was agreement all around. 

I like when I agree with myself. :)

I knew I needed to do something with the clutter wall.  But is was so convenient to capture people for hours just staring at that wall.  But I am learning I don't have to expose everything to anyone who stumbles in.  In some kind of information vomit on the wall.

But first the OMBRE', I just like saying that ombre 

I got lucky and found some clearance paint with built in primer, in the color I wanted.

I already had lots of white from the bedroom painting furniture episode.

Truly can't be that hard,...can it?

Well it was harder than I thought it was gonna be and the light greys looked to similar.

Yeah, I then took out the light and turned it dark. muuaahahahahah 

Yeah, that was looking a lot better.

But now how can I post about this, without the shame of the clutter on the wall.

Not to mention the wall color that hasn't been in my house for over 6 years, and didn't go with anything.  Plus it had the constant reminder of roadkill or vomit color.  Am I grossing you out?  Sorry didn't mean to.

But not any more!!!

This is a cleaning up the clutter and making  it look good TA-DAA!! 

Oh yeah, so much better. I do realize the top is not painted yet.  I seem to have a bad habit of only going to 90% finished and then getting around to the other ten percent a few months from now.

A little foraging around for the old window and minimizing the pics and phone numbers.

Total cost around 5 dollars for the paint.

Pulling a visually chaotic wall into harmony...priceless. 

I even started to paint the feet on all my unfinished furniture.

And found this piece of art for 15 dollars to go between my lamps. 

I like how it reflects the light and brightens up that dark area.

I also added new curtains that are the proper length and they are even lighter.

I can't wait to get this room done.