pretty in paint

Yesterday I completed my first assignment. I cleaned, painted, and organized a shelf. A small step in the grand scheme of garage overhaul 2011, but a step nonetheless.

The shelf was dirty, dingy and in dire need of a spruce. Seeing as it was only serving as a place to hold our ziplocks and other such kitchen overflow I wasn't too concerned with a high standard of painting. I wiped the shelf down and then threw a coat of white paint on top. I may or may not have pretended to be Tom Sawyer with a bucket of whitewash by my side and the sun beating down on me through the open garage door. But I digress...

The shelf went from this:

 

To this:

 

Better, huh? Okay, it's not rocket science that a shelf looks better with a fresh coat of paint, but still. It feels pretty good. 

So to put it all in perspective, here's what the shelf looks like two days ago, overflowing with kitchen appliances, science projects, and other unidentifiable objects:

 

And here she is, all shiny and new, outfitted with some cute new baskets (a Ross steal at 15 bucks for the pair) to hide the clutter: 

Not a total Betty, but a vast improvement.

And tomorrow I will get back to the cleaning, cleaning, cleaning of the rest of the garage. Which I have started, but nothing in the way of a glamorous before and after shot, yet. The current picture is more like a moved boxes from here to there and starting piling things according to junk vs. donate-able. A little less glamor and a lot more action.