Pandora's Box is in my garage

Before!

When Mike was out of town last week, I thought it would be a great time to start painting our 90's bedroom furniture that will need to be lasting a little while longer. It's "beautiful" hunter green shaker style and is getting on my nerves. I want to paint it black and headed to our local paint store to pick up some BLACK paint. Now, I don't know what is so hard about getting paint BLACK, but even after 3 more tries trying to get this paint BLACK, it still came out

DARK BLUE.

It's an ok color and I asked Mike what he thought....and he said BYU and NEVER.

I also had painted the tops and decided that was a bad idea, so I had a sanding party.

I told Mike I was done going to the local store. While we were out for a fun FHE (dinner and shopping... Mike had gotten a Chili's GC from someone he did taxes for and Sydney had won a Barnes & Noble GC at a contest for school), we decided to go to Lowe's and see what they could do for us.

Low and behold...BLACK!

It was a lovely experience: I asked for BLACK, the girl listened and gave me BLACK!

We also found these new knobs that were on clearance for 50 cents (others were $2+ a piece)! I stayed up late last night painting Mike's dresser since he's feeling out of sorts with no place for his socks. Today, I ran to Home Depot and bought some stain for the top.

I'm loving the color of this stain and also the color of the BLACK!

So, Mikey should be back in business tomorrow. And tomorrow I tackle the sanding, staining and repainting of the nightstands. I hope to have those back in place in 2 days. Then, my dresser and finally next week, the bed. This little project that I gave myself 2 days to complete turned into a huge disaster! And it all started with trying to buy BLACK paint.....