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How to Paint a Radiator Cover

francoisetmoiblog@gmail.com — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:18:56 +0000

This post was sponsored by Rust-Oleum and contains affiliate links. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Continuing on with our foyer remodel, you may have caught an IG story or two of Ken and I building a radiator cover to dress up the bare heating unit in the front entry. The plans for the cover itself are coming soon (I promise!), but in the meantime, I’ve painted this bad boy, and I can hardly hold back to show you guys how it turned out! (It’s gooood.) In the past, I’ve used a paint brush application to paint furniture, but this time around, I knew I’d need to look to spray paint for the intricate metal panels of the radiator cover. I’ll admit I was a little nervous whether I would be able to apply the spray paint evenly. Ken and I worked really hard designing/building the cover, and I wanted to make sure my paint job would do it justice! I went with Rust-Oleum spray paints for this project, because I’ve been using their products for YEARS, my dad used Rust-Oleum growing up, and I always know their paint (not to mention the spray nozzle) is going to be […]

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DIY Medicine Cabinet Makeover

francoisetmoiblog@gmail.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:00:55 +0000

A Medicine Cabinet Makeover: Refresh the spot in your home where you begin and end each day. This post was created in partnership with KILZ®. All thoughts and opinions are my own. It’s a new year, and I’m teaming up with KILZ to give a new look for the spot in our house where we start and end each day: the bathroom medicine cabinet. Since this little spot is so deeply embedded into our everyday routine, I figured it was high time to make it prettier and all around more functional for Ken and me. We’re a one bathroom household, so this area gets a lot of play. We used KILZ Tribute Paint & Primer in here not only because of the durability and coverage, but this bathroom doesn’t have an exhaust fan (old school, right?), so moisture and mildew resistance is also a must. Oh AND I wanted a matte finish, and Tribute is one of the most durable matte finish paints available! Let’s take a look at the cabinet before the makeover… Are those dirty, painted white shelves not the grossest thing you’ve ever seen? This makeover is LONG overdue! My scope was to give the cabinet a […]

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DIY Back Hall Makeover

francoisetmoiblog@gmail.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:01:30 +0000

This post has been sponsored by KILZ ® . All thoughts and opinions are my own. Whether it’s a mountain of clutter in your spare bedroom or a forgotten niche that’s in need of a facelift, we all have those areas in our home that we put on the blinders for in order to make them palatable. (Or at least, I hope we’re not the only ones!) For our family, it was the dreaded back hall, a dingy, bare, tiny space that just wasn’t pulling its weight. So, I’ve teamed up with KILZ Complete Coat® Paint again (remember our medicine cabinet makeover?) to rock this hall and make it feel more like the rest of our home–a spot we’d enjoy coming home to. The layout is pretty typical for 1930-era homes. You enter the back hall at ground level, and you can either go down into the basement, or turn the corner and head up to the two floors above (our floor + our tenant’s floor—our house is a duplex). What I’m getting at is there are lots of stairs, and not much room for coats, boots, garden stuff, toys, etc., all the things you’d like your back hall […]

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