Formica-Me-Crazy

So, I think the top and possibly sides of my dresser-turned-tv-stand are actually formica, which rules out the possibility of re-staining. I could paint those and stain the drawers, but.... I'm not sure how that would turn out.

If I'm just going to paint the whole thing, I could either go subtle and predictable or punched up and fun. I don't want to do black because that would bring down the whole room, but I'm not sure if the mid-century style would lend itself to white... I'm not sure if it could pull off adding some fun knobs/handles either, since it has indented pulls on the bottom of the drawer.

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If I went the more "fun" route, I was thinking of doing a dark, dark turquoise. I would possibly have the paint samples I got darkened even more... Similar to the color of our curtains. And similar to the color Young House Love painted the back of their built-in shelves, here:

Here's the color of our room.

I like the color that it is, but there's too many scratches and stuff that need filled to just leave it as is... Thoughts?? The great thing is that I can always paint it again...

White? Half-Stained? Turquoise? A totally different color because I'm on the wrong track? Let me know!

Some Pictures I've forgotten

Here are 3 of the 4 wreaths I made as Christmas presents.

Here are some before/after pictures of the organizing number I did on our closets.

Master bathroom - under John's sink.

Master Bathroom - under my sink.

one of the drawers ( I won't bore you with all of them)

Linen closet in laundry room

Under the kitchen sink. Much better!

Before: the closet under the stairs (ie the worst closet in the house)

After: added some unused kitchen appliances, our china. Then John moved some of his antique books from the garage into here to make more room in the garage. They're around the corner, though, so it still looks like this! Woo hoo!

And... here are a few pictures of the Master Bathroom. It ended up looking like a lighter version of the living room, which is perfectly fine. It took more paint than I thought, but man does it help the room. The tile looks much less yellow and it's so much more soothing.

Don't have a good before, but the bathroom is the same color as the rest of the house was - an outdated stock yellowy color. Bleh.

New color. Hard to see, but it's a minty pale green

Without the tape. So fresh!

Today I will be prepping my craft table (finally) for spray painting. I want to make sure I prep it right, so I'll be sanding down the metal with 400 grit sandpaper, washing and drying it to get off any other dust/dirt, then priming it with Rust-Oleum Primer for metal, which surprisingly comes in white. That'll give me a good idea of whether or not I want to paint it white. I'd like to do a design on the drawers but that'll be later... Right now I just need to focus on not rushing it and dripping.

Hello, Love.