sprucing up

So I have had a bunch of requests for pictures of our apartment, but it is still a bit of a disaster. So... I thought I would show you something we have been up to.

When we walked into our apartment for the very first time we noticed that there were only ceiling lights in the kitchen, bathrooms and hallways. SUPER! (not)  Now we have to buy lamps. We started looking around for lamps at retail stores and discovered very quickly that most of them were far more than we wanted to pay. So we found these two lamps at Salvation army. I don't have a complete picture from before with their burgundy shades that were falling apart, but this is the base. Ick.

so we taped them off

and primed them (sorry this picture is blurry)

and painted

and voila

a totally different looking lamp

Next project: sewing slip covers for my chairs. 

Remember my ugly old orange chairs that I got a super deal on?