tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10892038271684389152026-06-05T07:47:19.948-07:00furniture and home decorBrookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244849171714088567noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089203827168438915.post-62926136284057698862015-05-12T09:31:00.001-07:002015-05-12T09:31:23.814-07:00

This project has been swimming around in my little noggin for the last 2 years since we moved into this house, and it feels so good to get it out and into the realm of reality!  It was a little time consuming, but not difficult and CHEAP (which makes any time investment exceedingly worth it, in my book.)  I thought the herringbone patter would require a lot of head-scratching and math (

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Wanted to share with you today the way I made a huge impact in my own master bathroom, only spending $130!  These were simple and inexpensive spruces that anyone could accomplish with just a few hours of work. Our master bath, like everything in our newly-built home, had great space but was completely boring.  Clean, nice, new, but boring none-the-less. Since the giant wall of

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It’s been so long that I may have actually forgotten how to write a blog post.  If you’re still around and reading this, you are a trooper, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I’ve been very busy at ”blog worthy” endeavors, but somehow became completely unable to post here.  But I’ve decided I’m going to try and jump back in. Bear with my clumsy return to putting a blog

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I told you guys a while ago about the china cabinet I repurposed into our entertainment center when we upgraded to a large flat screen a few years ago.  It’s gone through a couple incarnations in our home, including the most recent off-whiteifying when we moved into our new home this past April.  As I alluded to in the above post, I have endured lived with my husband’s 1990 Bose

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I actually did it!  I got my dining room AirStone accent wall done before Thanksgiving!!  We hosted Thanksgiving for the first time in my adult life and had 22 people over for a very enjoyable feast.  This was one HUGE project that has been on my plate (in bite-sized portions whenever I had the time and inclination to work on it) for like 5 months.  It was such a relief to

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I was recently given the opportunity to try out the Metal Effects line of paints and patinas from Modern Masters.  I’ve gotten the chance to use it on a couple of projects so far, and wanted to share this fun product with you. The water-based paints have actual metal particles in the paints that react over time (if left to the elements) or react right away with the addition of Modern

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One of my favorite sources for affordable drawer pulls and hardware online is D. Lawless Hardware.  I don’t know if you’re aware, but they recently designed and released their own line of Library Card Catalog style Label Holder Pulls that are surprisingly inexpensive, and if you’ve ever priced this type of drawer pull, you know that they can be very pricey!  They offer two different

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I loved the quirky shape of this little bookstand/library table.  It was in pretty rough (and very dirty) shape when I got a hold of it. I gave it a good scrubbing with some white vinegar to prepare for painting.  I knew I wanted to embrace the primitive nature of this little table, so I picked up some Yellow Ochre Milk Paint from The Real Milk Paint Co. and went for it.  It

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I’ve been busily getting ready for the Junk In The Trunk Vintage Market at Scottsdale’s Westworld that’s sneaking up on us on November 9th.  Camryn (from Livy Lou’s) and I are bringing down some awesome furniture and vintage finds for the show.  I hope you can join us (and the other hundred of so vendors) if you’re in the area! I was pretty excited about my resourcefulness with this

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Don’t have a whole lot of time to write this morning because I’m having a girl’s day with my lovely sister-in-law at Ikea.  It’s 2 hours from home, so I rarely go.  It’s a treat!  I’m stoked! So here’s the down and dirty on this vanity re-do. The diamond in the ROUGH before: And the oh-so-glam after: Doesn’t it look so great with the rocker?  I think these

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Dearies, sometimes I get giddy with excitement when I’m working on a new project, and this one had been simmering in my little noggin’ for quite some time.  Even though I finished a few other projects before this one that I have yet to share with you, I COULD NOT wait to show you this! It all starts with a neglected Thonet style bentwood rocker.  (I love the style of these and have

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This story begins a couple of weeks ago, when I spotted a pair of chairs on the local Craigslist.  They were certainly unique.  I had never come across anything like them before.  And they were cheap, which is always an intriguing factor for me as well.  I’ll admit, I wasn’t completely in love with them at first.  In fact, I couldn’t decide if I loved and had to have them

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In line with yesterday’s post, I also wanted to share a pair of ugly art pieces that I found quite a while ago (that happen to have the exact same style frame as my Bulletin Board!) I did an antiqued silver finish on the frames and painted right over those “classic” art pieces with chalkboard paint.  I have a two month calendar, an area for notes and a to-do list as well as a shopping

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An inevitability when you have a family is the accumulation of papers, and bits, and photographs, and greeting cards, and party invitations, and appointment cards, and very-special-you-can’t-throw-that-away-ever priceless pieces of 5-year-old art.  I hate having these things magneted to every square inch of my fridge, but what else are you going to do with them? I decided to buy a very

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It has taken me forever to get the final finishing touches for the laundry done, but after 5 1/2 months in the new house, I’m finally calling this one room complete finito!! When we moved in, in April, the laundry room space was a big ol’ blank slate, like so much of this house.  It was a great size, but besides the shelf over the place for the washer and dryer, there was NOTHING.

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Pretty much since the first day we looked at the new house, I’ve had the whole thing almost completely decorated in my head, it’s just a matter of finding the time, energy, and money to complete the vision in real life.  But one room that I was stuck on was my 2 older boys’ room(11 and 8.) I knew that I wanted to do something a little more grown up that will transition them into (sniff,

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I’m a little late to the party on this, but I just recently tried CeCe Caldwell’s Chalk and Clay Paint for the first time.  And I really enjoyed working with the product.  It’s got a nice, earthy smell, with ZERO VOC’s which is a big plus.  You can paint with it right in your house without stinking up the place.  The color palette is really to die for.  The first can I

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I am SO excited to finally share this project with you!  Along with building in cabinets and counters in my laundry (coming soon!), this was the heftiest DIY project I have ever taken on. (OK, my husband helped a little too, but only because you can’t mount cabinets single handedly.) I couldn’t be more thrilled with how it turned out! When we moved in, there was about a six foot empty niche

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Follow that title? Here’s the story. In my pre-blogging pre-semi-professional-furniture-upcycling days, I bought an old China Cabinet for $40 on CL to revamp to work as our entertainment center. I removed the sliding glass doors (not pictured), the center bar thingy and one of the shelves and moved the remaining shelf closer to the top to hold the components. Everything in my house was tuscan

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There was a big design dilemma when we moved into the new house, namely the 2-story ceilings in the main living room.  All the walls were painted a creamy off-white which was a great blank slate, but it left the living room feeling more like a gymnasium than a cozy place for us to hang. I came up with a plan to bring those giant walls down into the livable space of the room with paint.&#

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Did I mention I’m in a green phase?  Can’t. Get. Enough! This was one of the first projects I did once we were in the new house.  I found it on CL for $60 (I KNOW!!) while we were living in a teeny tiny rental house with most of our stuff packed to the gills in the garage.  Mom came to my rescue and let me keep it in her garage for a couple of months.  I’ve always wanted an

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This is another project I finished up before the move and never posted.  An awesome roadside castoff with personality to spare.  SO glad she was given a new lease on life and not rotting in a landfill somewhere! (… and I think this might just win the prize for the worst before picture ever taken.  I must have had too much coffee that morning.) With that fun shape, it definitely

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I’m not going to lie.  I’ve been in a blog funk.  It’s been project MANIA, but the blogging has definitely been last on a very long list of to-dos for quite a while (since deciding we were going to try and sell our house last October.)  So I thought over the next several days I’d catch you guys up on a few things that I’ve done but failed to blog about in the last, I don’t know…

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We’re finally starting to feel settled in the new house.  The mile-long “to do” listing is slowly but surely getting projects ticked off. I love all the space and openness in the new digs and am savoring the design process, making the house into our home. I found some great bar stools at an even greater price at a new wholesale to the public type furniture store in town.  I have some

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Hi friends!  It’s been a while.  Remember me? Life kind of turned upside down not longer after my last post back in October.  To make a very long story short, we decided to list our house, it sold in 3 weeks, the buyers needed to be in before Christmas leaving us to pack and move our entire household in just 3 weeks and find a temporary rental house while we shopped for a new home

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