A Ladder of Numbers

Good Day everyone, it's Thursday and I have to admit that summer just flew by.  It was a good summer and we had a lot of action at the camp which was so fun.  The grandchildren are getting so big and it is fun to see them enjoy our place like our own did.  When our kids were little I practically lived up there all summer.  Well here is my latest project which I did at the camp.  Here is the before picture:

As you can see it is just an old ladder but I thought it would be fun to have it painted and jazzed up.  One could use it as shelves in any room and have it be a conversational piece and an unique one.

I wanted to show you pieces of the ladder before I attacked it.  Some parts I left alone because of the shabbiness.

Well, I started painting and I didn't prime the ladder before because I found a tinted Kilz paint and I really like the aqua color or maybe turquoise color.  So I started painting.

I left the metal pieces of the ladder alone and when I was done painting I decided the steps of the ladder needed some numbers.   I painted the words this time and antiqued the whole piece with the same color gray paint that I had used for the words.

As you can see I left some of the metal parts of the ladder alone.  I liked the shabbiness of the old and grey color of the pieces but I antiqued around them.

So here is my ladder and I can't wait to put it my house.  I just love painting old pieces and giving them some new life.  They just give a room a pop of color.  I  loved the color and what do you think?  Better or worse?

Until next time, Dianne...............................

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