My Padded Cell

I’ve been spending a lot of time this summer working on client projects and they’ve really run the gamut – interior design, making pillows, painting furniture, reupholstery, and painting kitchen cabinets. How’s that for variety?

Last week, I showed you the hutch I was finishing up, and mentioned that the last remaining step was finding a way to disguise the paint splotched latticework I couldn’t access on the back of the door.

I had an idea to mimic the pattern on the back of the glass with felt tape the same width, and guess what? It worked PERFECTLY.

Do you know how amazing it feels when an idea turns out exactly as you imagined it would? Like you just want to high-five someone, pump your fist in the air, and yell, “YEAH!” Now imagine me doing this alone in my garage.

From the front, the felt tape is practically invisible, just casting the faintest shadow, that reads as a shadow cast by the latticework itself.

Upcoming client upholstery project in the background! The chair, not the bike.

But the biiiiiiiig project I’ve been focused on this past week has been painting kitchen cabinets. Unfortunately not mine, but they are coming, hopefully early fall.

I finished the cabinet bases over the weekend and have been spraying the doors in my garage this week.

I made myself a plastic room, which at times, all alone in the humid summer air, has felt slightly like a padded cell. Especially now that it’s so WHITE.

I covered everything in plastic – walls and floor, and let me tell you why this was both a good and a bad idea.

Good – I haven’t whitewashed my entire garage.

Bad – Once paint gets on the floor plastic, it’s like trying to spray paint carefully while walking on ice. Crazy slippery. And then once it dries and you walk on it again, it’s like being caught in a glue trap. I’m muddling through it but I’ll be laying some canvas over the plastic when I do my own cabinets. Turns out I don’t love the extra challenge of painting on ice/caught in a glue trap.

In other news, I got a pedicure this week.

And my shoes look like this.

So I am pretty much ready for the ball.

I’m planning to deliver the hutch and reinstall the cabinet doors all this weekend and I’m feeling super excited to really cross these couple of projects off my list!