Marangi DIY 🎨 : Part 1

Hey you🤗🤗. Thank you for coming back and if you are new here welcome to our budget family ❤️❤️.

From the title, you can tell that we will be exploring something a little different today👯. With the safe distance and stay at home precautions I, like many of you, am no longer going out and that means I don’t have new places to share with you 😔. I however found a new adventure that can be enjoyed totally from the comfort of your home💃. That’s what I will share with you today 🤗

That new adventure is PAINTING!!😇 It all started on a Saturday morning. My siblings and I were bored following a power blackout and thought it a good idea to revamp a stool that had been used during construction. The stool revamping turned into an old stand revamping. We even decided to paint our kiti moto😂 ; only legends will recognize 😎.

The stand, stool and kitimoto we painted on our first adventure 🙊

Now onto this week’s project 💃. Because we were all very impressed by how well the stool and stand came out I decided to get some paint and upscale a study table that we’ve had for fifteen plus years. As suggested by my friend Paul, I specially made a step by step video for you guys🤩. Enjoy🤗

The items used in this project include;

1. Sanding paper – a 20 ksh roll should be enough

2. Paint brush – a 4 inch brush will be ideal

3. Paint – we used Basco Value, Crown Ngao and Crown Silk Vinyl emulsion

4. Turpentine – a 500ml bottle goes for about 50 bob

5. A plastic tin – this is to mix the paint and turpentine in

6. Spatula / stick – to mix the paint with

7. A study table and three door/drawer knobs.

For all my non-swahili speakers, here are the translations for some of the Kiswahili words I’ve used in the video🤗;

Kiti moto – this is a wooden seat that is mostly used in the kitchen. The word kiti means seat and moto means fire.
Mjengo – this is the swahili word for construction.
Center – used to refer to stores at my local area.

Do you think we did the study table justice? You can let me know in the comment section below📩. Also, a special special thank you to my brother Alvin for being my strong person.💪

As per usual, see you in two weeks as I share with you a cabin I’ve recently fallen in love with.🤩 I’ll also pop in the video of the stand and stool revamp next Wednesday, be sure to check it out!😉