Please tell me I’m not the only one. And when I say “the only one” I mean the only one who moves things about here and there, constantly tweaking. See the lamps above? They came from the bedroom below. Of course I painted them with my homemade chalky paint, so the green didn’t fight with […]
My Screen Door Turned Chalkboard
I love a good DIY project and turning a screen door into a chalkboard is my kind of project. Using left over salvage and turning it into something useful is green too. I was walking through my new house with my builder when I mentioned that I was looking for a screen door. He […]
Meet Camille, my Frenchy Vanity
Some of you I know are drop dead gorgeous all of the time, but if you are like me, maybe you can relate to Camille, my vanity, who needed a little help, but in the end, turned out beautiful. Here’s the photo I took of Camille, with my phone, when I first found her at the […]
Dining Room Remix
Remember when I said I had made a few purchases for the new house already? Well here are a few of them, the new console the mirror, and the lamps. It’s not that I thought my dining room looked bad, it’s just that the armoire I had in here is not the right size for […]
You Voted, I Listened
In a post last week I showed a photo of my red chest, click here if you missed it. As I looked at the photo, I just didn’t like the look. I wanted to paint the chest, but still wasn’t sure if I should. So I went to the experts… YOU! I asked on the […]
Customizing Built-in Cabinets
We sold this house in 2013, and moved into our current one then. I loved the transformation of these cabinets using paint, and still do. Read on…. When our city house was built in 1978, they added this built-in buffet in the breakfast room. We bought the house in 1990, and back then, glass doors […]
Paint Palooza II
I love homemade chalky paint, and I use it all of the time. If you missed my homemade chalky paint recipe, you can find it here. So recently I went on a painting binge. Here are some of my more recent victims transformations. A little step stool on my desk, AFTER BEFORE A little chalkboard […]
One Last Look
Well we finally found a buyer for my MIL’s house. As you may recall she passed away about a year ago, but you know how these things take time to wind down. So we had gotten everything we wanted from her house and held an estate sale in December. There were many things left after […]
