Today it's the mailbox. And we're not really removing the mailbox, just removing the eyesore portion of it. Although, to be honest, it probably needs a total replacement job. I'm just not up for it quite yet.
Granted, the mailbox is far enough away from the house, you might not even know it is our's. You could make someone lunch in the time it takes them to walk out and retrieve the day's mail. It is, however, the first mailbox you see as you drive down our street.
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| Next to our neighbor's pristine mailbox... |
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| Closeup on the nastiness |
One of the not-so-great benefits of living on a corner: everyone sees your home and your unsightly mailbox first. Not a fantastic impression, by any means.
I took a go at the mailbox a month or so ago with stickers. It transformed the mailbox, but not in a good way. I was hoping for "rusty to funky" and instead got "rusty to white trash". Not what I was going for, I
promise.
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| This idea just didn't work |
Enter spray paint. Again. I know, I know, I really got to get myself some other hobbies other than spray painting anything that annoys me. Well, almost anything that annoys me - none of my family members have yet to be spray painted (on purpose, anyway).
The other mailbox and even the tree needed masking, so I used our drop cloth. I highly recommend getting a nice canvas drop cloth if you paint on a regular basis - and by regular, I mean more than once a year. It comes in handy for many projects - for drywalling, painting, kid crafts, hiding Christmas presents...oh yes, it's a nice thing to have about the house. In addition to the drop cloth, I also used painter's tape on the flag (which probably still needs painting). And - voila! - a decent mailbox.
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| Ahhhh, crisp and white! |
I'm still trying to decide what I'm going to put on it (other than our house numbers). Maybe I'll skip being creative, since it is really soooo far from the house. And just leave it respectable.
You and your spray painting! But it does look much better now :)
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