COMING AROUND THE CORNER!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! It's been a hectic week for me! So much stuff to do and so little time!! Well me and Shawn are in the process of trying to plan our bedroom makeover and he wanted to update our current bed that we have. We have a king sized Malm bed from Ikea. It's like a platform bed on steroids. Anyway, it has a really short headboard, and to go with the look we are trying to create, we wanted to heighten it. At first Shawn mentioned us just covering our current headboard with batting and fabric, but I'm like let's go big or go home! So this is the inspiration:

Lovely right!? This is actually the exact bed we have right here(well the style that is).
We are tacking this project this weekend!! Stay tuned!!

Drop it like it's CLOTH Curtains!!

So I've currently been obsessed with Drop Cloth Curtains! You know the drop cloth painters use to protect floors and furniture?? It's a super affordable way to have custom window treatments! I literally made six 9 foot panels out of two packages of 9x12 drop cloths for 50.00!!! So here are a couple of examples on what I'm thinking of doing!!

Cassandra

Hexy my new End Table!!

So, if you know me, or if you are my husband Shawn, you will know that me and my lover Craig. S. List have a very special relationship. Craig has all that I need and desire and isn't afraid to give me a bargain. This is one of the latest gifts he has bestowed upon me. A beautiful fugly hexagon table with glass top for 15.00!! I picked it up from a lady who looked just like Suzanne Sommers and it was in suburb condition!!! Here is the before pic:

Yep there she is in all her glory. I was in search of a good end table to go with my living room decor which is at the moment a vintage inspired, distressed, ecclectic, modern Shabby Chic. Super simple!!

Anyways, she had a little wax on her, so I decided to sand her with my trusty 6 year old Elijah.

Yep, I put the baby to work!! lol

I then used Krylons Semi-Gloss white spray paint and painted about 3-4 coats-well maybe even 5! lol Just wanted to make sure it was nice and white all over.

I then distressed it with the 220 grit sandpaper on the edges, used some glaze on the legs and I had my new table!!

Cassandra

Distressed Vintage Chair redo!!

Okay so this is my very first chair redo! I scored both of these lovlies at an antique mall here in Texas for $50.00 for the pair. Yes a little steep BUT I couldn't resist AND I had been looking for chairs for like forever and a day so yeah, ya girl was getting a little desperate.

Anywho, because I'm completely awesome and I'm a genius, I didnt take any before pics. I hang my head in shame..But, once I realized that I had no proof of their ugliness before-which happend to be after I primed them with Kilz primer lol-I snapped a few pics.

Here they are naked:

Basically this is how I got started: I flipped the chairs upside down and unscrewed 4 screws that were holding the seat onto the base of the chair. Then, once I got the seat off, I took out the staples using a rare tool I like to call a phillips head. For the ones that wouldn't come off so easily, I used some needle nose pliers. It worked like a charm..

Then after that was all done, I saved the fabric to use as a template for my new fabric.

So back to the chairs, I took them to the garage and I primed them first with Kilz Primer which was a couple of bucks at Walmart



Then I let those babies dry for about an hour. Now here is the thing about this primer, it leaves a sandpapery feel to the surface so I had to lightly sand it with some 220 sandpaper I had to get the rough patches out. After that I was golden

After about an hour, I spray painted the chairs with the best teal blue EVER!!!! Krylon Ocean Breeze. I then glazed them with some Ralph Lauren Glaze I found at a thrift store-(totally random and yes I scooped it up) distressed it with some sandpaper again and this is what I came out with:

Yay me!! FINALLY, I went to Target, got a curtain panel in a cute red flower print and used the fabric to trace out the size for the cushion. I then stapled the fabric onto the cushion, screwed the nails back in and Voila! New Old chairs for my living room!!

What do ya think??

Cassandra

First Post!!

WELCOME welcome to my journey of turning stinky old junk and turning it into beautiful works of art-(or at the very least something usable!) Anyway, I started this blog for two reasons:

1. I love DIY projects and FINALLY have the room to follow my hobby
2. Because I want to share my adventures with everyone
okay and one more:
3. Because my husband had the brilliant idea of "Hey, might as well do a blog so all of this wont be for nothing" (which I dont quite understand, but I'm rolling with it)

So without further adeu (is that spelled right??)


Throwback- back- back and Thrifty- y- y- y.... YAY!!!

Now time for a totally random pic!

Holla!

Cassandra