Julie & Julia

As many of you know I am big on functionality/efficiency and not so big on design/fashion.  I've been forming a plan to put a pegboard in my kitchen because I felt like I was always drying/putting away/getting out certain pans to cook with.

Before

Priming/Painting on the Patio

The base boards

 

After

 

In Use

I have many people to thank for the completion of this project.  Julia Childs for the idea.  A YouTube Video of two guys putting up a pegboard in their garage.  McKelle Nilsen for the idea to sand the label off so I could paint on a certain side, also for providing me with some sandpaper.  Brooke Dickson Motes my painting consultant.  Shane and Kenzie Stratford for letting us borrow their electric drill.  Christopher Allen Moody for helping to put it into the wall.  My downstairs neighbor for being at work during the extremely loud drilling into the wall for a few hours (we had a few troubles).  Project Complete.

The Frame

What once was this -

After much hard work-

Became this -

Thank you to Pottery Barn for the general idea, The Dickson gals for encouragement and ideas, Georgina for the wood and engineering genius of the frame and time on Memorial Day evening, Mom and Dad for the newspaper, storage space and staple gun, Kels for the jewelry wire cutters, Gug and Jared for the wire cutting, weaving, tying, and holding, Clark for the staple gun mastery, The Weavers for the sandpaper, Chris for errand running, project supervision and sounding board, and Brooke Caldwell Darrohn for the motivation to do a "project".  Wow.  It was about a month in the making, but I love it.