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{In Progress}

I am playing a bit of catch up - sorry things have just been so busy around here trying to get ready for spring planting. We've had the most ridiculous weather, and that has caused a lot of hold up and frustration with planting. After several, several coats of paint - we finished the inside of our hutch, you can see the before pictures here. We didn't do the bottom half yet, so that will come at another time. I have to say though - now that we have the inside white, I am itching to paint the rest of it another color. Since we have no idea what we are really doing with our dining room, I won't be painting it for awhile. Though the peach walls in the dining room make the white shelves look a bit orange at times, we're happy to have the inside finished and love the way it turned out.

{In Progress}

{BEFORE}

Our next project is our original built-in hutch in our dining room. We've decided to start light with the hutch and only paint the inside of it white. I know it seems sacrilegious to paint an original piece like this, but the outside of it is not actual stained wood - it is a dark paint stain, so unfortunately it has already been painted. I am open to eventually stripping it, and bringing it back to life but not right away. The inside is stained wood, but too dark in order to see the items inside of it, and that is something we'd really like to change. The outside of the hutch is roughed up, it is has a lot of chips and scratches but that doesn't bother me. I have cleaned it, but because of the stain paint on it - you wouldn't be able to tell.

{BEFORE}

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