January 12, 2020 - 121 - "Tiny Transformations"

      At the first house we bought in Mexico we had renters stay for a couple of months.  They bought two barstool for the roof so they could enjoy the rooftop view in comfort.

     We'd been looking for some but hadn't found any we particularly liked.  Actually, I wasn't completely sold on the ones they bought.  But, hey; they were comfortable, we needed barstools,...and they were there.   

     So we used them a lot and were very happy to have them.  

      Later on we decided we needed two more barstools.  We still didn't see any we were really sold on.  (There are a lot of big, heavy, wrought-iron barstools around San Miguel that aren't comfortable, and can barely be moved they're so heavy.) 

     So we ended up buying two more of the same ones.  Only problem was the new ones were stained a light brown, so they didn't match the old ones.  

     We eventually sold that house.

     When the realtor was sending a photographer to get pictures of the house I finally got motivated to stain all of the barstools a dark coffee brown (nearly black), as I'd been intending to do since we got the two non-matching ones.

     The transformation was dramatic.  The chairs went from looking very rustic, and a little funny-shaped due to the cantilevered seat configuration, to looking downright elegant.  The funny shape (in my mind) in black...took on a cool sculptural quality.

     Flash forward to our latest house, and we again needed barstools.  This time we went right for those cool artisanal ones, as we now thought of them.  This time I knew not to waste any time getting them painted.

See those two bags of rubble with a board across it?  That's
the place-filler to help us imagine the gorgeous bench we want
to put there.  (See yesterday's post about our 'Imagineering'.  lol)

     Again this small project gave a deep sense of satisfaction once.  It's funny how some projects take forever to finish and bear little fruit.  Occasionally, though, there are the quick and easy ones with pretty stupendous results.  

     In only a couple of hours I got them all stained.  Then we got to stand around and admire them, arranging and rearranging them around our (in-our-minds-only) outdoor bar.  

     All we need now is to actually get all the projects surrounding them finished , then they'll have a backdrop worthy of their coolness.  Then all of the myriad tiny transformations will morph into one giant transformation.

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P.S.  I love the drawing on the cap for the bottle of stain.   "Don't drink this!", it warns by showing a little icon of a dude happily guzzling the stuff.

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Of course this needs to be locally updated to 'no trip to Comex Paints/the
ferreteria...