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![]() This will ensure that you'll have enough space to accommodate your mounting screws when you go to hang it. When placing your key-hole hangers on the back of your board, add a washer or two as a spacer behind the hangers. Stand-off/floating house numbers (I used these ones).Minwax Mahogany Gel Stain (I just used interior stain and sealed it) and foam brushes.About 10 paint sticks - don't want to head to the hardware store? Check out these Made in the USA sticks on Amazon.2圆 Pressure treated piece of lumber, cut to about 24" long (you can have the hardware store cut this for you).(based on a 4 - number address plate Amazon affiliate links below to the products I used) Check out these Made in the USA paint sticks on Amazon as an alternative! SPECIAL NOTE: Home Depot has since started printing/embossing on both sides of their sticks - one side has their logo, the other, a ruler. I hope you enjoy my post, and if you end up making one, make sure to leave a comment with a link to a picture of your house numbers, because I'd love to see it! I have made some additions and modifications to her tutorial, and thought I would share my spin on her take. In her tutorial she creates a vertical house number plaque I had limited space between my house light and mailbox and was forced to modify her tutorial to a horizontal orientation. I started scouring Pinterest in search of something cool but somewhat period appropriate, and came upon this tutorial by Michelle of 4 MEN 1 lady. But, I think they give the house a bit of flair. One such thing bugging me was the house numbers now, admittedly, they never would have looked like the ones I put up. We took advantage of Home Depot’s Black Friday appliance deals, so we’ve got a new oven and microwave coming, in stainless, of course.So, ever since we purchased our mid-century modern home (built in 1959), we've been busy trying to fix it up, and trying to restore a bit of the MCM charm it undoubtedly had but over the years lost with previous owner's modifications. Throw your stuff in a cooler, turn the fridge off and save yourself the trouble! It is so much easier if you can leave the doors wide open, especially when painting along the edges and insides. – The videos say you can leave your fridge on when you do this, but I don’t recommend it. If it says to wait 1 hour, wait 1 hour! I got impatient towards the end and have a few imperfect spots to show for it. Also, I kept it in a plastic bag in between uses. Too much paint on there seemed to make it harder to work with. – Speaking of the squeegee, after each pass over the paint, you’ll need to get all the excess paint out of the foam. If you make crooked lines, you will be able to see them when they dry. Here are the before pictures of the mismatched set:Īfter you roll the paint on, you use the squeegee to make streaks in the paint. Paint my appliances? It’s kind of a big deal! What if I screwed them up beyond repair?īut my Liquid Stainless Steel was already in transit, so I put my big girl panties on and decided to go for it. This is about the point that I started freaking out. They said yes and generously sent me a refrigerator kit and a dishwasher/range kit. I watched their YouTube video about 87 times, then decided to contact them and see if they would send me product to review here on the blog. So I started looking around and found a product called Liquid Stainless Steel. Stainless steel fridges cost $1000 if you get them on sale? ACK! That was definitely not in the budget.īut we needed to order a microwave and I want stainless steel, but I didn’t want to add a third finish into the mix. I had never really looked at purchasing appliances before so when I saw the price, I was a little shocked. The home came with a black fridge, a white dishwasher, a black and white oven, and a hole where the built-in microwave should be. All of them worked, but none of them matched.
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