Painted Projects Updates ~ Stenciled Floor Update ~ Pros and Cons of Painted Cabinets~Painted Floors

I get a lot of questions about how some of my painted projects are holding out. In this video, I go over some of them and share my favorites and regrets.
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BATHROOM FLOOR: • Painted Floor ~ Stenci...
BATHROOM CABINETS: • Bathroom Cabinet Makeo...
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[@user-ix1sf9wm8k]

Love your updates on passed projects. Have a blessed day sweet Mary.

[@laurieg2436]

Mary, you deserve a brand new kitchen with a dishwasher!!

[@belindagibson455]

She probably wouldnt use it

[@yT579]

I have enjoyed the kitchen as is - sure it's not a current style but at least it doesn't look like every other boring kitchen - I live the character!

[@Karebear59]

I love her kitchen!

[@brendaphilyaw3677]

Wish my kitchen looked like this! So much space. I really like it as is!!

[@Mejiaelis]

I love her kitchen ❤

[@lindi5887]

Hi Mary, we had a muck problem in our koi pond and having it professionally cleaned was going to cost $750. So I did some research and found barley straw bales on amazon that seemed to work for many people. I have used two bales this summer and the muck is gone. These are the ones I ordered - Summit 130 Clear-water Barley Straw Bales. Hope this helps.

[@joycestepancevich6591]

I appreciate your honesty about being stressed at times doing certain projects and you are the perfect go to person for painting advice. Enjoyed this video!!

[@ninjanana102]

I really liked this video because it was different. It was fun seeing your old projects and how they have held up through the years. Thank you. ❤

[@nannychachi]

Oh. My. Goodness! We're coming up on November 18th because I've always wanted to meet you! You're a mini-celeb in my house. 😊 And, we love the videos/projects, of course.

[@erikas974]

I do remember the first video I watched it was the bathroom floor painting. How time flies when you having fun.🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤

[@amyhoff1501]

Great update , i remember all of the Videos and being amazed at how brave you are trying something new that probably most of us wouldn’t dare to do . That’s why you’re our hero , Mary 😊

[@CountessKek]

Ty Mary for taking us down Memory Lane with you! I can't believe i've been watching you almost 5 years!! Still love your channel just as much, maybe more! You've become so much more comfortable in front of the camera, so obvious when you show clips- i'm so proud of how far you've evolved! Great video, as always😊

[@livingawordfilledlife]

Thanks for sharing…I haven’t missed a video in 5 years!!😊

[@hehasrizenful]

What a blast from the past I was most definitely there when you did that beautiful bathroom floor, so inspiring I am still looking to do my own. Thank you Mary for the inspiration.❤❤

[@susantucker40]

I admire your courage to tackle so many projects and all you knowledge and skills. You are inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

[@ParamountDisney_AP]

I love that you're not afraid to take risks no matter what the projects are. You're inspiring to many.❤

[@rburns9248]

I love to listen to a good thunderstorm.

[@memphis2375]

Thanks for the update! I would love to see you finally getting a brand new kitchen with a dishwasher!! 😊😊

[@maryp536]

Mary. I can’t believe the majority of the projects you referred to I have seen throughout the years. I guess I’ve been watching you for a long time! Look at how much you have accomplished. Congrats. I look forward to many more years of videos.

[@conniepleasantnails]

❤ Wow that bathroom floor (black & white) is amazing. What a great money saver. 😊

[@ellascottagecompany2044]

Mary we need the link to the Heritage Ctr you talked about for the Nov. 18th. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since you painted the bathroom floor! I remember that and loved it!

[@cinder8290]

This was a very interesting episode. I too have painted a lot of furniture and also a floor. Some turned out great, some not so much, so it's nice to see that someone as talented as you has regrets sometimes, too. I love your challenge, Mary, always enjoyable.

[@mariadelosangelesgimenezes8119]

Thank you Mary for this video. It is good to know that I am not alone starting overwhelmed projects at home that seem have no end.

[@sonyarice2653]

Thank you Mary for sharing this video. I only started watching you a couple of years ago but I've watched all the videos you have ever made. So I've seen how you did these projects. You inspire us & I enjoy each & every video. Yours are my favorite to watch!❤

[@themakersstation]

The bathroom floor stenciling must’ve been a challenge, but I agree, Mary, it turned out so well!

[@lynn4834]

I can not believe that that is the same kitchen. What a transformation! You really make everything look so beautiful. I wish I had half of your talent!

[@graciemaca6996]

I am so glad that your projects are holding up still after four years! Doing this follow-up video gives some of us more timid ones the confidence to try out new ideas. I do believe that you are blessed with a gift of creativity and generosity in sharing your knowledge with others. Thank you for this informative video!👍

[@peterwhite9261]

Hi Mary. Everyone you do is lovely. Thanks for the update.

[@cattuslavandula]

Mary's counter redo inspired me to take on an old drafting table that's been sitting around the shed for years. Dark tilting tabletop that I hated, it's now a soft taupe shade thanks to a sander and a little bleach spray. It's in the house and makes a beautiful hangout for my plants.

[@SheilaCainSample]

You are so fearless Mary with painting things, you inspire me to try. Thanks for your videos.

[@beverlytrader9363]

I'm in my 60 years old and are thinking about painting my kitchen cabinets. You actually give me the courage to do the project.

[@marilyntyger5253]

I really enjoyed watching this video. It was great seeing how your projects held up. The bathroom floor is amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@AngieFaw-ij2dh]

Love your videos! I’ve learned so much from them. Also, those videos that are calming to me such as the cats, wildlife and outdoors… Thank you and God Bless!

[@pattycarosi9618]

Mary I have seen all these episodes and have loved them all. I really love the bathroom floor it still looks beautiful. Thank you for taking us back to all these episodes. Have a blessed week! ♥️🙏

[@roxanncartwright6886]

The first video of your was the bathroom floor. I was hooked on your videos. I thought, "She is so brave! " love all your videos

[@laurieanne9712]

Oh, I remember so many of these projects!! Hope you get your kitchen makeover soon! That would be a fun inside winter project for us to watch! Consider doing the real quartzite countertops. Mine has lasted forever & I'm a scratch cooker/canner. I did the White Macubus that looks somewhat similar to your painted one only with some gray & occasional light blue & tan. So fun just to look at it.

[@ruthfitzwater-cn3vc]

Thanks for this update, Mary. I have been watching your videos for at least five years and I have enjoyed them all. Not sure when you started. My kitchen cabinets are in need of painting after 22 years! They are white and I’m thinking of painting at least the island some shade of green. I may keep the rest white or change all of them. I did paint my former home’s cabinets and it wasn’t that bad! Maybe my winter project! I hope your pond can be fixed. Nothing worse than bad smelling air. Looking forward to whatever you bring us next.

[@DonnaF1556]

Mary, I loved this video and seeing what you did in the past and how long it has lasted. Ty. Donna xoxo

[@suzisaintjames]

Re: painting the downstairs floor. Fun fact: there's two kinds of dirt... light colored and dark colored. So even if you had painted that floor white, the dark colored dirt would have shown. That's why your bathroom floor is stunning... It hides the light colored and the dark dirt! 💖🌞🌵😷

[@ellyntallon2255]

Hey Mary :) I knew an old gal that would sponge paint her kitchen floor it was sooo.. many colors as it would wear shed get a couple colors and dab a lil here n there it was very pretty actually. So how about some texture painting over the black? Maybe look like wood planks? Splatter? Sponge? Rag roll? Using left over paints? Doesn't hurt to be creative. You can always paint over it! :D

[@carlas872]

I love updates! Thank you for providing it. Not too difficult to think of Christmas because we got a few inches of snow last night here in Chardon. Hope we can make it to the November show and see you!

[@beatricemoore644]

I agree I think my favorite is the bathroom floor! Love your videos!

[@janeevans4758]

Love your entire home Mary,and the work you put into it is commendable! You really do put everything into each and every project and it shows! I had a pond many years ago and the smell you spoke of was caused in mine from the rotting leaves falling into it,they almost smelled like a dung pile at the local cow farm but just really strong and yes gas like,that was the fermentation of the leaves at the bottom. Everything compacts down to the bottom of the pond and turns to a slurry hence the smell,its definitely off putting and not a smell you would want while eating your dinner outside or sat watching the birds ect. I think when you have a pond the size of yours the only way would be to dredge the muck out from the old leaves and such but yes i think it would be very costly. Hopefully mother nature will lend a helping hand and work some magic for you and resolve the problem. Great video mary as ever.😊

[@kayburris8464]

Like I've always said Mary I think you can do anything and it always looks great.

[@mlm7598]

Loved this, I saw all of these with you except maybe two or three but everything you touch turns to gold.........love your whow! Blessings

[@donnafriend153]

Woke up to snow here in NE Ohio this morning, I always enjoy your video on Wednesday mornings with my coffee!

[@leejacobs3620]

Great video. It's really interesting to see how the projects have weathered. I'm not surprised that you have had very few failures. Thank you for sharing.

[@petro3441]

I have painted our kitchen cupboards in the pandemic lockdown time and up to today i am so happy with it. As you say we spent a lot of time in our kitchens....we have to like the look❤❤

[@MamaT160]

I admire all your hard work, and your honesty about how projects weathered the years. You have a lovely home and property, and y'all work hard to maintain everything. So warm and welcoming. Happy November and Happy Thanksgiving!

[@susank8601]

Mary, you make everything look so easy and I know it’s not! Thank you!

[@JandKG]

Thank you for sharing, Mary. Always look forward to seeing your videos. Also looking forward to seeing your Christmas decorating videos 🙂

[@joycecrull8986]

I rememberwhen you did your bathroom floor. I love it!

[@bettypecoraro8104]

A very interesting video. Kind of nostalgic. 😊

[@user-mq3oo5xq1c]

Enjoyed your videos Mary

[@ornellamartinelli9907]

Ciao Mary Volevo dirti che sei un artista. Che Dio vi benedica

[@nicolemichaud5852]

Love all your projects! I used the exact same peel n stick vinyl you put on your basement countertop. I put it on my kitchen counters about 3 years ago and it is still holding up!

[@farmers-daughter2000]

I love that color, is it gray or green. I agree about the dish washer. Until I had one. I really wish I had another washing machine. But I have a slab under my house. No lovely basement. For a sewing, nor another desk for my beading. Sometimes, I like to play with Drawing and painting. So now I watched the indigenous Americans. Working on art. One did painting, another pottery, and another did beading, I think the young man that did the beading. He was learning to bead from his mother, not from his father, he disappeared. They all felt compelled. To do it the art. I was wanting to knit when I was a child. When in high school I wanted to to learn to sew. So I did learn. I taught myself. I help my best friend sew. But she didn’t feel compelled. In my senior year I learned to sew a bonded wool. Well that was not just like

[@farmers-daughter2000]

Another compelling hit for me. I had a dream when I left my first husband. He was an horrible man, so I left him. I would enter a shelter for abused woman. While there I got funding for a education. I felt compelled to be a LPN To 2 semesters. Well I still had one more semester.

[@farmers-daughter2000]

Well, I came to my interviews with a dress on. I think they thought I was that religion. They that wrong religion were except I wasn’t that wrong. I was Methodist, til My fifth grade teacher she was terrible. And She was the ministers wife. The next year I went to the Presbyterian church. I went the next year with another I added Catholic friends. I learned not be amused by Baptizt. Our town had 2 Catholic Churches. And one is closed now, when I was I baptized it was in the Lutheran. Well, to German Lutheran of in my community. My mother, was raised in that church, my grandfather Remt, His father Juergen, went too, his father George, and Hinrich. I may have the spelling incorrect. There is only one page and I don’t want remembers correctly. My Heinrich may gone back. Some of them went back. One of my cousins went over to Germany to finish the genealogy. I won’t get to go since I am 70 and my mom would not get one. The family didn’t like that my step brother was not include in the genealogy

[@debrarodriguezestrada2748]

The bank you for sharing what radishes can do for the garden.

[@lindak7499]

Mary that was a really nice video. I was watching your channel during most of those and like seeing how they are years later.. The only one you did not mention was when you painted the basement ceiling. I mention that because you deserve the credit as it was a BEAST to do. Thanks

[@brianandtamiolson2330]

Love and appreciate the updates. You were busy in 2019.

[@gailrhodes2859]

Loved the update!! I think the touch up idea is great!! That is what I do!!!

[@mariareyesrosado425]

Great job. I especially liked the floor you painted black and white with the beautiful design ❤

[@lolalopez8713]

Mary haces un trabajo perfecto y muy bonito , no me pierdo ningún video tuyo . Un abrazo.

[@melonmahfood2439]

Love seeing everything you do!

[@susangenry6497]

Glad to see you paint with different color than just gray and white. That green is beautiful

[@tammyc1276]

Wonderful update. I've been trying to decide if I should paint my oak cabinets. Thanks I'm going to do it. Thanks Mary

[@phyllismonazym9418]

Hello Mary, I have to say that was an amazing video! Thank you so much! Can't wait to see more of your amazing videos! Happy New Year!

[@sarabrunsvold2461]

I pretty much paint, well, just about everything. Enjoyed this video. God bless.

[@WatersandWilderness]

Great update, Mary. Thanks

[@chariceberg290]

Mary, I love everything you do - you are an inspiration for me! Thank you for all you and share!!

[@RebeccaShanks-ch9ku]

Thanks Mary! I loved the update.

[@priscillaspencer230]

Hi Mary, thank you for sharing.

[@annebicks6877]

I just love the bathroom floor!!

[@shellydehart8217]

Loved the video. I thought it was a good idea to share. It gives all of us some inspiration. My favorite was the bathroom floor. It still looks great. I’d give just about anything to have a kitchen like yours. I love the layout of it n everything still looks good to me. I would love to do my cabinets over ( there white) but I just don’t have the energy like you. ♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟🌟🌟

[@connietowler3725]

I always enjoy your videos. They are relaxing and fun, no matter what you are doing. I just sit back with my coffee, enjoy and always learn new DIY's and the how to, which is very important. Thank you

[@farmers-daughter2000]

I have to go and visit with my 45 year old son. I would love to see my 21 year old grandson and a 16 year old granddaughter. 😊 16:42

[@AmyLouiseDens]

Perfect timing! I am about to paint my kitchen cabinets. I feel I am prepared to prep and paint. Then enjoy! Thanks for your updates. Really encouraging.

[@nancyhaynes4459]

Great video. Love your bathroom floor.

[@peggythomason2100]

Love all the wonderful painting jobs. Inspiration for the many uses of paint to make changes❤

[@maureenp7082]

I remember when you painted the bathroom floor. I ❤ it! You're awesome!

[@carolsopinski4549]

Wow Mary, your kitchen has received a lot of love over the years!!!

[@teresabell1014]

Love that bathroom floor 😁

[@gorgo1945]

A very helpful video today, Mary, thank you. I appreciate your honestly and how you give your critical view on the projects. We can all learn from your experiences.xx

[@gailrhodes2859]

I’m excited about the Christmas release!!!

[@paigewood5856]

Love the color.

[@lindaeshbach6494]

Always love e your videos! No matter what it is there is usually something that makes me think of something new. Thanks that Mary and have a great week

[@alw5101]

Wow time flies Mary! I watched all of these past videos and never had any doubts that they wouldn’t hold up like alway great job you are a fantastic diy extraordinaire! Thanks for all your hard work and continuous content 👏✨🤍🙏

[@pamelamann7933]

Love all the ideas you share so many wonderful things. One of my favorite things you have painted was the green light fixtures over the island in the kitchen!

[@mikekephart6960]

This was awesome! Appreciate the info so much!!!

[@almachapman5409]

Great job.

[@beverlylones9552]

Love the beautiful bathroom floor! Absolutely love the wonderful color of the bathroom cabinet !😁❤️❤️

[@lauragreen4899]

Thanks for sharing this update. Hope you get a new kitchen soon with a dishwasher!

[@chrisprpich3278]

Great video. It was so nice to see how everything has lasted , through all the every day use. 😊🇨🇦

[@ZWonderfullife]

I love your kitchen!!

[@sandragarwood1948]

That was super interesting! I love how you try something, and if it doesn’t work, you try something else. Love your channel!

[@janettespiers4242]

I'm with you Mary fix it to your liking even if it takes paint love your video thanks for the inspiration

[@wendyrumbel4354]

Always love watching your videos. There’s Always something to make me inspired. I still love your bathroom makeover. God Bless your beautiful family.

[@Stellaperez658]

Omgosh Mary I just realized I've been watching your chnl for years!!!! And I still enjoy your content n still learn from you! Thank you!

[@InfinityHealthPilates]

If you haven’t tried using microbes to treat your pond I highly suggest it. I used them for years to treat 2 retention ponds. One with a spring. It worked fabulous. You throw a biodegradable sphere in once a month. And in hotter summer days a blast packet. It’s called Aquasphere biodegradeable pond treatment. You can use multiple spheres idepending on pond size. Get from healthy ponds.

[@cynthiakelly202]

Loved the video,I've learned a lot from you! Thanks for all the inspiration!

[@mrsj5890]

I found this video very interesting! Rarely can you find follow up info about these kinds of projects.

[@danaadkins6305]

Mary probably wouldn't use a dishwasher very often but I think her kitchen is adorable

[@debbied3116]

Loved this update!! We painted the floor in our house until we could afford flooring. It did really good and served it's purpose. Thanks for sharing!