World's Longest Yard Sale 7 - revamping the junk

The next part of our story takes us to Alabama. This is our last night and the home reveal is the next day.

We pulled in at dinnertime but had one hour to spare before eating, so we dashed off to a local Walmart to find a few last minute things. 
As you can imagine, being on the road leaves you little time to revamp the pieces. But we did what we had to. After dinner we painted into the night in 'that humidity'. Ohhhh it was humid!
Check it out...

Actually, it was so humid the paint wasn't drying.

But no worries! We had a conference room booked aside so we could work on some things. So we emptied our Yukons and the one Uhaul we had along for the ride and got to work.

I'm tellin' ya, we were TIRED. But the adrenaline kept us on the move until the wee hours of the AM. And then GMC Chris sent us off to hit the hay because tomorrow was a huge day.
So with about 3 hours sleep, we hit the conference room by 6AM, loading everything back into the Yukons, resolving to do the painting at the habitat house. 
We had 5 working hours before the reveal.


No time was wasted. We basically ran to the house, emptied the works and everyone started on their own room items.

This is the dresser for the master bedroom.  Any guesses what I did to the drawers?



Chalkboard paint! And we had some volunteer help from Habitat as well! Whoop!

And while we were busy painting and cleaning, who walks up the driveway holding flowers and donuts?

Kellie from Restore Interiors! My jaw hit the ground... I yelled, "I KNOW HER!"

Goodness, when your blog world becomes your reality, there isn't anything better. I've been a huge fan of Kellie's work forever and it was such a treat to have her on board! She spent the entire day with us cleaning, decorating and whatever else needed doing.

And how she stayed so clean I'll never understand, because...

... she ended cleaning up all our junk!  Forgive me yet Kellie? She deemed my junk the dirtiest after all... :D

Here's the vintage mirror I also landed for the dresser.

Purdy! The spray paint worked awesome! I'll be doing this again.

It was a big day. But it was only the start. Now it was time to stage everything. Would we make it with wet paint still flying? How about those curtains that were still being worked on?! Now I know what a reality show is like. We lived it!

Stay tuned for the reveal next!

all road trip updates are HERE

Intro - Junk Warriors take on World's Longest Yard Sale

1 - getting ready to leave

2 - getting lost... on the way to the airport

3 - the view from my (plane) window

4 - bloggers, GM and shopping

5 - southern confessions

6 - junk shopping with video

Disclosure: I was not compensated for this trip nor writeup. GMC and OnStar sponsored our travel expenses only. My opinions are my own.

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