Range hood

I LOVE SPRAY PAINT!

I already showed you the fun transformations I made on the porch chairs - now here's another!

When we first bought this house, redoing the kitchen was high on our to-do list! However, buying a house was a huge stretch for us and a full kitchen reno was out of the question. Instead, we replaced the cabinets and counters and then have stepped through small changes here and there.

And then the stove died. 6 months after we moved in. Four days before Thanksgiving. Good times.  The appliance salesman tried to sell us a matching hood to go with the new range, but we couldn't fork over the money to replace something that was working fine just to have it match. Instead, I decided to spend about $7 and try some "titanium silver" spray paint. I wasn't sure if it would work, but it wasn't going to be worse, so I took down the hood, washed it and taped over the button panel, headed to the yard (Brad just LOVES when I spray paint in the grass... where is the sarcasm font?), and gave it a try. I loved how it worked! Woo-hoo for saving $100+ dollars!

 Before:

 After:

Maybe I should try it on the dishwasher... hmm. Have any of you ever tried that?

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Fun with Spray Paint - Porch Chairs

I really love spray paint. So much.

I'm actually a little obsessed with spray paint. It offers such an easy way to transform the look of objects - spray paint gives me pretty immediate gratification with no brushes to clean!

For example -

My friend gave me these chairs when she renovated her screened porch. Perfect for our front porch, but they were a dark green, which didn't really go, and they needed a little facelift. So, 4 cans of Rustoleum Satin Paprika later, I had this:

It adhered really well to the plastic. I didn't use a primer, though perhaps if I had, it could have taken less than 4 cans to cover.

I loved it, but a few months later, I decided to paint our front door purple and these chairs didn't look so nice next to that.  Back to Home Depot - time for more spray paint!

This time I chose Aubergine (which happens to be one of my favorite French words - it means eggplant. ;) ).  I got away with just 3 cans this time and I love, love, love the result!

Don't you love it?!

I'll share more spray painting projects soon! I've used it on all sorts of things around our house!

What have you done with spray paint? Tell me about your fun projects in the comments!

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