DIY signs are easy to make! In this DIY sign tutorial, you'll learn how to enlarge an image for FREE and repurpose a mirror into a chalk board to create an easy DIY Fall Chalkboard Sign. DIY signs are a budget friendly option when you're looking for inexpensive home decor, even a beginner can do it!
It's not very often that I show you the "after" of a finished project at the beginning of my posts. However, I wanted to show YOU that YOU CAN create beautiful DIY signs and they:
don't have to be expensive!
you don't have to have nice handwriting to artistic abilities to make them look beautiful!
you don't even have to have wood OR TOOLS to create them!
In the time that it took me to watch a movie, I was done with this homemade chalkboard sign. Are you intrigued?! Excited to learn how? I hope so! Because THISDIY sign was so easy to put together!
AND this particular style of homemade sign is so versatile! You change them and use them for just about any time of the year!
Saltwash™ creates a unique paint finish for furniture. This Saltwash paint additive can be combined with any kind of paint to create a beautiful distressed and worn paint finish.
If you're curious how Saltwash™ works you are in for a treat! We're sharing step-by-step instructions on how to use Saltwash™ along with our favorite salt wash paint tips and tricks!
We also have a helpful Saltwash™ video demonstration AND we're sharing our very favorite Saltwash™ projects to give you all kinds of ideas!
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SALTWASH™ PAINT ADDITIVE!
Summer is here and if you're like me you'll agree that there's nothing better then spending some time at a pool, lake or beach to relax and unwind, read a book or enjoy making memories with friends and family.
In this post we are talking about how easy it is to create DIY coastal weathered furniture and home decor using Saltwash™.
Someday, I would love to have a lake house or beach front property. It's on my bucket list! ;) If you're looking to create DIY coastal home decor to go with yours, we can help!
Metallic Cream is one of my favorite products that Country Chic Paint offers. So, we went on a hunt to find the best detailed piece we could find to rescue and re-love.
This post was sponsored by Country Chic Paint and may contain affiliate links. However, I love their Metallic Cream so much that I'd scream it to the roof tops no matter what! View our disclosure policy here.
**This post was sponsored by Minted. However, the opinions and thoughts expressed within this post are 100% my own.
Good morning! When I think about the month of November, I usually associate it with being thankful. (Although gratitude should be expressed all year long), I wanted to take an extra minute to say how THANKFUL I am that I get to be apart of The Fab Furniture Flippin' Contest. It has been so FUN to meet new TALENTED friends and to see all of your amazing furniture makeovers each and every month!
The #fabflippincontest for November is going to be a GOOD one! Minted is our sponsor. Have you been introduced? If not, you're in for a real treat! Minted is a special company- a place that offers unique designs from a community of independent artists. Their digital art can be printed onto canvas, fabric, prints, made into pillows, curtains and more! You can even create prints from your own little artist's work. :) It's a wonderful company that offers unique art, stationary and home decor that you won't find anywhere else! So, I am also THANKFUL for Minted. :)
A $300 Gift Certificate towards Minted's Art and Home Collections
I have a quick furniture flip of my own to share. Introducing bright colors and bold patterns is a great way to freshen up a space without a lot of effort. Reupholstering a piece of furniture can be for both the novice and the beginner! What can you do with a little paint, foam, Minted fabric and a staple gun? Read on!
I started with this cute little Kids Bench. It had a dark cherry finish, some peeling veneer, great storage capacity and one hard seat! The original finish wasn't our style and the comfort factor was a zero!
Who wants to read on a hard bench? Not I. :) The old veneer was removed, new veneer was added and the bench was painted it in a warm white color. Next, we addressed that lack of comfort. ;) We cut down a 1/4 inch board to the size of the bench, added some foam and used a staple gun to adhere this lovely Hexipattern Fabric in Orange to it.
Put it altogether and we've got a cute, functional and comfy place for the kids to plunk down with their favorite book.
Our November 2015, "Take A Seat" Fab Furniture Flippin' Contest begins now and we can't wait to see the submissions pour in... Good luck!
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Good Morning! Are you ready for a quick before and after? We're over at Country Chic Paint today talking about how we transformed this ratty scratched-up-door-fall'n-off changing table/dresser combo..
** I received Country Chic paint to complete this furniture makeover, however the opinions and thoughts expressed here are 100% my own.
A Seventies Intervention
Oh good golly would you look at this?! You may have passed up a bedroom set just like this at a garage sale. What, why!? You don't think it's pretty? ;) Okay, you're right. It's hideous but ah, come on... it has the bones to be love-e-lee. We're going to transform this bedroom set into something spectacular for just $25. Yep, you read that right. Twenty-five, one dollar bills. With just a little paint, this bedroom makeover is going from drab to fab!
Take a gander at the hardware. They are exquisite, but they get swallowed up in the existing wood finish. Care for a close up? Friends, they just don't make hardware like they used to!
They also don't make wood like they used to. ;) I'd rather fix up an older all wood set any day then shell out $$ for a new set that may or may not contain particle board.
We unscrewed all of the hardware, grabbed a paint brush and some Country Chic Paint in Vanilla Frosting and went to work. After two and half layers of paint, we gave it light distressing and put it back together.
And Voilà! In no time at all, a new bedroom set was born.
Isn't it amazing what a little paint can do! Carrie || Thirty Eighth Street
** I received Country Chic Paint to complete this project, however the thoughts and opinions presented here are 100% my own.
In our home, we decorate with LOVE and PURPOSE. Every Halloween we pull out old Halloween photos of the kids from years past and use those to decorate our house. It's meaningful, it's cheap, it creates GIGGLES and it allows us to reminince old stories. I needed to add some new Halloween picture frames to our stash and decided to up-cycle some frames that I already had instead of going out and buying new ones. And I'm thrilled to try out one of Country Chic Paint's new colors... Fireside.
I gathered up my old frames, painters tape, a chevron stencil and Country Chic Paint in Vanilla Frosting, Liquorice and Fireside and opted for a mix of bold patterns with some solids.
Here's putting it altogether...
The Halloween printables you see in my home are FREE and are offered by the talented and generous Desiree from The 36th Avenue and Makoodle and are for personal use only.
I'm guest posting over at Country Chic Paint today! Stop on over and say hi!
Learn how to create two separate pieces of furniture from an old china hutch! Create the look of stylish custom furniture simply by adding legs and make your furniture budget stretch further!
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could score two pieces of furniture for the price of one? What if I said you could! In fact, this DIY furniture tutorial is SO AWESOME it's even better than walking into a 50% off furniture clearance or a buy one get one FREE furniture sale!
Do "buy one, get one free" furniture sales even exist? Wishful thinking!
In this post, we're going to share with you a creative and innovative way to furnish your home with stylish and custom pieces for a fraction of a fraction of the cost that you would pay if you were buying brand new furniture. :)
You are going to learn how to create two pieces of furniture simply by separating the top and the bottom sections of a tired china hutch.
An easy tutorial on how to up-cycle a hutch to create two separate pieces of furniture with Pure & Original Classico Paint.
Sometimes, it is love at first site. Sometimes, it takes some warming up to. Sometimes, you can give a piece a facelift with just a little bit of paint. Sometimes, you make alterations first. This one was Love. At. First. Site.
These gorgeous arched doors were staring at me and I knew I had to have it. I didn't necessarily like it "as is", but I saw the potential and the potential called for some alterations. The vision? I would separate the two piece china hutch and create two distinct pieces and functions out of them.
While Pure & Original provided the products used to complete this labor of love, we supplied the elbow grease, rescued furniture, design concept, and opinions! All of which reflect our own point of view, regardless of affiliation.. This post may contain affiliate links. You can view our full disclosure here.
When I'm selecting a hutch to dissect, I like to look for ones with straight lines at the top as opposed to an arched top. When you're creating two separate pieces out of a hutch, a hutch with a straight line at the top gives the new piece a more natural look rather then looking like a hutch top that you've tried to turn into a cabinet.
Two reasons most straight lined hutches are open on top. First, if its a lighted cabinet it needs space for the cords. If there aren't any built in lights, it simply just saves the furniture company money and time when let's face it, nobody can see up there anyway. ;)
Since the top of our hutch was being turned into a stand alone cabinet and the new height would allow someone to see the top of it, we needed to create a false top. We selected a pine board from our local big box hardware store and had them cut it to size.
We didn't want to worry about whether or not the existing hutch top was square so we opted to give our measurements an extra 1/4" inch overage from our hutch dimensions. By doing so, we created the illusion of another layer of molding.
We used some wood glue and a nail gun to secure the board to the top. Then, we gave it a quick stain so that pine closely matched the existing stain. This cabinet was going to be distressed so giving the cabinet a universal base color before painting it would help those distressed areas look more natural.
What we did to the top we also executed to the bottom. We added another stained pine board to the bottom of the hutch so that we had a thicker surface area to work with when we added our feet. We selected inexpensive bun style legs and gave them the same stain treatment before securing them to the bottom of the hutch the hutch.
When we finished, our new cabinet looked like this...
Two pieces for the price of one! This blog post covers our furniture makeover for the top portion of the hutch. If you missed what we did to the bottom section, you can catch that here. If you enjoyed this post, you'll want to see some more examples of up-cycled furniture using Pure & Original Paint!
Don't compromise style for price! I'm going to show you how easy it is to transform thrift store furniture into unique show stopping pieces! Save money when you decorate your home by shoppingin second hand stores!
THRIFT STORE FURNITURE MAKEOVER
It's true! Looking at brand new furniture can give you a bit of sticker shock! But what if I told you that you could create breathtaking furniture and unique home decor simply by visiting your local thrift store and having a little imagination?
Repurposing furniture from thrift stores can save you lots of money and it's not very hard! If you are new to painting and refinishing furniture, welcome!
You're about to embark on a wonderful journey of flipping furniture. And I'm not going to lie, it's a little bit contagious.
When you discover how affordable it is to refinish used furniture AND you learn that it's possible to customize your thrift store furniture pieces by adding legs or painting them in custom paint colors and finishes it becomes a no brainer! You are going to be hooked!
PIN THIS THRIFT STORE FURNITURE MAKEOVER FOR LATER!
Painting furniture in emerald green is not for everyone. But, this bold color is a head turner! Need some Green Painted DIY furniture inspiration? You've come to the right place! Take a peak at this lovely Emerald Green Painted Desk Makeover and see if green is your thing.
Painting furniture is therapeutic for me. And for some reason, this next makeover was a real treat to work on. From the time I opened my can of General Finishes Milk Paint in Emerald Green to the very last picture taken, I think I had a perm-a-grin!
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That doesn't always happen with a furniture makeover story. But, it happened here and it all started by finding this old antique desk from the 1890's. Her spindle legs, her wooden wheels, the curves and even the hardware were in such great shape for her age. The original finish was chipping everywhere but beyond that, she was beautiful...
I started with the wheels. They received a good cleaning and some painters tape. Then, I sprayed them with some gold spray paint.
The hardware received the same spa treatment. And while they were drying I could turn my attention to the chipping finish and the new upholstery on the chair.
Both the chair and the desk received a good sanding. The chippy finish was a cinch to take off.... one of the perks of finding a piece so old. ;) And then, the magic started. If you're looking for a really nice Emerald Green hue, General Finishes has it. I'm smitten.
Here's why... Meet The Cynthia Dresser all dolled up.
Thank you, HGTV for featuring this desk makeover! Is green your thing? ;)
