A Splash of Color

It looks like the weather may have finally broken for good up here in the north. Whenever the weather starts warming up and things start blooming, I get the urge to open the windows and bring some of the outside color inside. So over the weekend I decided that I wanted to freshen up the sideboard in my kitchen. It's been the same all winter and it was looking a little tired to me.

I have this piece of ironwork that I've been wanting to do something with for a while. I'm pretty sure that I bought it for a few bucks at TJMaxx about 5 years ago. At one time it was used on my deck to keep a large planter raised off the floor. Then the planter went bye-bye and the ironwork got stuck under the deck and had been there for a couple of years.

This is what it looked like when I started.

I actually kind of liked the way it was - all weathered and rusty. It would have looked great as-is. Maybe there is some lesson there about my own laugh lines and stray grey hairs. But I'm in no mood for self-reflection today so on with my story. :)

I decided to clean it up and give it a coat of paint. Usually, I would paint something like this black or white and leave it at that. But I really wanted a new splash of color in my kitchen for spring.

Here's how it looked with the primer. Pretty. It would have been great white but that's not what I was going for.

And then with two coats of Key Lime spray paint!

I love how it looks on my black sideboard with the white ceramic and purple lilacs. Kind of unexpected and pretty. And when I'm tired of the green, I can paint it black or white or yellow.