Monday Made It and Tacos

Tacos! Tacos! Tacos! They could possibly make Monday my favorite day of the week. (Weird, I know.) So, after a belly full of tacos and a hard day of work I am linking up with Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It because I have been super, SUPER busy. Ready?

Background info: 
My landlord is kind of a slum lord hoarder and uses the garage behind my house to store all of the random crap goodies he finds in the dilapidated old houses he buys and rents out. Boy has been looking for doors to put in his studio, so I asked landlord if I could have the ones (eight) in the garage. He said no. :(    He might need them for something...  But, he also said I could have anything else in there that I wanted, just to get it out of his way. (I imagine that this is because he needs more room to put more crap antique collectibles.)

Anyway, I found this cool desk/table in there that was covered in spiderwebs and contact paper. Ew! Drum roll please.....

 

 There are actually two drawers that go to this. I just need to sand the other one down so it will fit again.

But check THIS out...

Items found discarded in dump garage and FREE:

1 Table

1 Gallon of Behr Satin White Paint (really there is probably five or six of these in there but I just needed one)

1 Roll of Scotch painters tape 

and

1 paint brush

Items I had to purchase at Lowes:

1 can of green spray paint 

($5 WooHooo!)

 But WAIT! There's more...
The table was my real Monday made it project but it had to be done on Sunday because boy made me slave labor help paint his studio today. A few weeks ago we learned how to stain concrete together and today we finally had a chance to work on the walls. He picked out the color blanket (which is hard to tell here, but is really more of a light blue-green minty color) and a espresso stain. Looks good, huh?

He wants the place to have a kind of rustic but industrial feel so all of the doors are going to look like barn doors except for the actual sliding barn doors, that will be the metal ones, seen in the right of this picture. Confused yet? Yeah.... welcome to my world.

I have never had so many conversations about doors in my life than I did today.

So, my job was staining today.... All day.... Well... except for eating tacos. I started by putting one coat of stain on all of the doors and after that dried put a second coat on in vertical lines leaving small gaps in between the strokes. (I also stained all of the trim and hanging boards for his art but pictures of all of those will come once they are hung. He is also going to install trim on the doors to make them look more barn doory. (Not a word, oh well.) I think I am done for the night.


Tomorrow I am hoping that I can get boy to take my fun new table to school, but don't worry there will be many more Monday Made It projects to come. Wait till you see what else I found in the garage....