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May 02, 2007
Weekend/Evening Projects!
Yeay!!! I have two outstanding evening/weekend projects :-) I LOVE projects!! Project #1, which is already under way, is hemming our curtain sheers so they fit the window...I have one done, and 6 more to go! EKKKK!! Project #2, is refinishing our kitchen cabinet doors. We've gone to Home Depot like 3 times to look @ cabinet doors and the only solution we were ever really told is to replace all our current thermofoil cabinets with new themofoil ones. After measuring and doing calculations I came up with an astronomical price for new doors.
Tonight, we finally hit the jackpot @ Home Depot. First of all, we had a very nice conversation with Joe, our regular guy who always helps us ;-) (Turns out his wife used to work at LMNK too!). Then we met Bill (or Bob? I can't remember his name now)...but he changed my life ;-) He told us the secret to refinishing our thermofoil doors. PHEWWWW!!! At about 5% of the cost of new doors, I am going to be able to refinish the doors myself. Now I am just crossing my fingers that all goes as smoothly as I hope! :-)
Seymen said that if I can successfully refinish the doors at this 95% cost savings, we can consider buying all new interior doors!! WAHOOOO!!! I think my favorite part of projects is the before...when I haven't started it yet, and I'm confident that I can do it perfectly...and I'm not nervous that I'm going to screw it all up ;-) But I have a good track record this week. My painting/matching the paint of our current curtain rods came out BEAUTIFULLY...and my one curtain hem job is good too...WISH ME LUCK!!
Posted by beth at May 2, 2007 09:35 PM