Sometimes you just can't say no

It's true. Although I have several other projects waiting to be finished in my basement right now and I set a New Years resolution to finish something before I start something new, some rules were simply meant to be broken. When you see a deal like this on KSL, you just can't say no.

Over the weekend, I came across this steal of a deal:

A Thomasville solid wood hutch with a separate base and top (glass shelves, interior lighting), a Thomasville solid wood dining table with 2 leaves, and 6 solid wood upholstered dining chairs for....

$250!

For realsys.  Please try your very hardest to look past the tragic walk down memory lane of the early 90's with the forest green painted top and sponge painted everything else and see the real beauty that will soon be revealed.

The lady who sold it to me was one of the sweetest people I've ever met, and she wanted to make sure this set went to a nice family.  I didn't have the heart to tell her the truth about us.... I think we're nice enough, anyhow.

I have been wanting a new dining room table and chairs for, well, ever and finally have my chance at one that I absolutely love!  Here's what we have in our kitchen now.  This was a hand me down from my sister and we have been so grateful to have used it since we were married, but we are so due for a new one.

This is definitely going to be a time consuming process however and a true labor of love.  I started stripping the paint so optimistically yesterday morning,

 and here is the progress now (almost 24 hours later). 

 It might look like I'm actually getting somewhere with it, but please bear in mind that this is after my scraping for about 2 hours. No Joke.  I applied another coat of the Citrustrip and have let it soak in overnight, so hopefully it's ready to work a little bit easier for me. 

 Can you hardly stand how fabulous that wood is hiding underneath there?  EEEK!

Does anyone have any fabulous tips for stripping paint for me?  Do you love/ hate any particular brands?  So far I haven't been all that ecstatic about this citrustrip I bought, so I just picked up some KleanStrip that I will be trying as soon as I log off here.


As a side note/ tip for the day, don't ever leave your little boy unattended in the kitchen while you "quickly" log in to check your stats (you crazy obsessive bloggers...)


Here's my little Trav coming in the office saying "Pease?"  for more candy from the drawer he opened and helped himself to for breakfast.  

Check out that bed head.  Gosh, I love this little stinker.


xoxox


~PW