So I have been plugging along in repainting our house. If you missed it before, I am a partnering with Behr paint as a Behr DIY Expert again this year and it couldn’t have come at a better time. We painted our entire house when we moved in 10 years ago and except for a […]
Eat in kitchen makeover (+ how to easily add more height to your room)
I love looking back at before/after pictures and boy, do I have some good ones for you today! Here is our eat-in-kitchen maybe 2 years after we bought our house. We hadn’t done much except paint when we first moved in. So at some point, probably about 5 years ago… I added a chair rail […]
House makeover – black painted shutters and front door
Ok, so this is probably one of my biggest transformations yet. Not necessarily in the amount of work because it wasn’t that intensive but when you change the appearance of the entire front of your house that is pretty big! So here’s our house before… Not bad. But I honestly was really wanting a […]
Front door makeover with new Behr Marquee paint
I FINALLY painted my front door! This is one of those projects that I seriously said, “why did I wait so long to do this?” Our front door has never been painted in the 10 years we have lived here. It hasn’t always looked quite as bad as this but honestly it never looked good […]
New (yard sale) light fixture for the stairway
I am on a mission… remove all the brass light fixtures from our house! I have 1 more downstairs to remove, and a few more upstairs. And the best thing is I am doing it with all yard sale/thrift store finds! I will have to do a roundup post when I am all finished off […]
$2.00 yard sale candlesticks makeover
Remember those candlesticks I picked up a few weeks back at a yard sale for $2.00? I finally got them painted and redone. This is what I was starting with… wood multi-colored candlesticks First I spray painted them with Rustoleum gloss white spray paint. But I was wanting them to have more of a weathered/antiqued […]
16 Marvelous Mailbox Makeovers (+ introducing you to Hometalk!)
Have you heard of Hometalk? Hometalk is an online site that I think you will love. If you love Pinterest, love talking about home and garden projects, love reading blogs, and looking at others projects– Hometalk pretty much combines all of that in an online community. In their own words, here is how they […]
Fix your faded chair cushions with spray paint (update)
Last summer I published a post called “Faded chair cushions refreshed with spray paint.” I started with these chair cushion on a set of BHG outdoor furniture that I got on clearance a few years back and that we enjoy on our back deck. The resin/wicker furniture has held up great but after 2-3 years, […]
75¢ Yard sale candlesticks get a paint makeover
Remember these candlesticks I got at a yard sale? I paid 25¢ and 50¢ for them – can’t beat 75¢ for a set of candlesticks. So here they are – before. They were pretty nasty. Covered in wax and dirt. So I cleaned them up. Then sprayed them with a quick coat of white primer […]
Top projects of 2012
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had a good Christmas. A quiet, simple Christmas with my husband’s family on Christmas Eve and then Christmas with my family (three kids age 5 and under) which was a little bit more crazy. And as for presents we got – well, there may have been […]