Um...yuck.

It is "National Take a Risk Day" over at Nesting Place...

Just so happens I took a risk yesterday, and failed miserably...I wasn't going to do anything at all with these photos - in fact, I was just about to push "delete" on my camera when I read The Nester's post...hmmm...I can link up a risk...mine will just have ended in yuck ;)

A couple of weeks ago, we were cleaning out our basement & I happened to come across my sister-in-law's old headboard (my husband bought his parents' house before we were married, so we were left with all the ~~junk~~ interesting items they didn't want to take with them to Florida...).

I asked him not to toss it because I thought for sure I can some up with something to do with it...hmmm... I figured out that herein lies the problem. If you don't have ANY idea what to do with something, you don't have to keep it.

I started to look around the house hoping inspiration would hit me. I have long admired Mandi from Tidbits from the Tremaynes and her amazing ability to work miracles with moulding (if you do nothing else all day...check out that "moulding" link - you will not regret it). Soooo, I figured I would add some interesting detail to one of the doors in our architectural-detail-less home (just in case you don't remember the mid 70s...they were not the years of exciting new advances in home building...especially in suburban Chicago).

I asked hub to cut the top off with his awesome set of tools...and this is what I had left.

It even had this neat-o Grecian-looking thing on it...

And this is the door that I thought I would place it over...the dark one down there at the end of the looong, dark hallway (this photo was taken at noon on a bright, sunny day and this is what I got). Yes, I know that door is ugly and doesn't really belong anywhere but a dumpster...I'm workin' on it...don't judge.

I took out my trusty white spraypaint and went to town...totally happy with the results and psyched about my new endeavor into door-sprucin'-up...

And this is what I got...