Spring Cleaning & More Projects

I'm "sprucing" things up around here, trying to getting ready for the class I'll teach on decorating next Tuesday night.
I added a metal work design above some pictures that needed something additional on the walls.
Here's one above pictures of hubby, me, and our two daughters, We're all close to the same ages in the pictures. I added one above the daughters wedding pictures in the living room. Ceekay has been bugging me to do this for nearly two years. I was unsure about it but love it since it has been up.

All this Spring cleaning is exhausting! I've done all our closets and many projects lately and it was time to take the bags to Goodwill. We threw in the old light fixture, as we had no place to use it. Have you all been busy with cleaning out things yet?

On to the next project that has been bugging me for a while. I bought these in a pkg. of five a long time ago. Since then I have gotten additional things that are more in the brown tones so out came the brown paint and brushes to tone them down a bit. What you can do with a little paint. This is a shot of before.

The after shot does not really show how brown I did make them.

This pic does more justice to how brown they became. They blend in better now, I think.

I have two other projects that I just finished and hope to post soon. For now, off to clean the wood blinds and baseboards. Hubby is helping with this task. He's so handy to have around, I just love him for his willingness to help.

Hope you are having a good week. Thanks for stopping!