Happy Friday! And to make it as happy as possible, here are a few fun and colorful kid-friendly makeovers just for you and your lucky little eyeballs. Share them with the kids in your life. And their eyeballs.
Will I ever get tired of seeing entertainment centers turned into kid kitchens? Answer: NO. That was one of the very first things I shared waaaaaay back when this blog began, and they still delight me today! And I’m sure they delight the kids and stuff too.
This one is from Better After reader Lindsay who found this solid oak piece for free on Craigslist, prettied it up and sold it to a family with tons of little kids. Everybody wins! Except maybe that person who gave it away for free on Craigslist and would probably kick themselves if they could see it now. Sorry dude.
Alicia’s three-year-old son used one of these stools every time he went to his great grandma’s house, and that fills me with nostalgia, because my grandma had a stool just like this too.
Alicia wanted one for her house – it’s perfect for kids in between high chairs and regular chairs – and found this torn up one online. Just a little paint and fabric and it now it looks so good it will probably still be chugging along when Alicia is a great grandma herself.
See it on her page Drunk on Junk.
And lastly, here we have a picnic table perfect for serving up not much more than a splinter buffet. Yeowch. I would have probably taken a match or a monster truck to this thing, but Krista had less destructive plans, and turned it into a game table!
That’s an old door that she refinished and affixed to the top, with a Sorry! game board and Yahtzee score sheets immortalized inside it in epoxy. What a fun idea! Way better than that Pinterest idea going around “Yard Yahtzee,” where you make oversized dice out of giant wood cubes and then throw them across the yard to play the game.
They look absolutely adorable, but I’d only last two rolls before my biceps would seize. Same thing with “Life-Size Jenga.” Someone is going to lose a foot playing that game, mark my words.
See more from Krista on her blog The Dabbling Crafter.
5 Comments
Michelle L
July 10, 2015 at 7:42 AMMmm…splinters.
Jessica H
July 10, 2015 at 7:49 AMI have one of those stools. It belongs to my sister in law and I would love to get it out of my house. Maybe if I fix it up for her she’ll take it, finally.
LeeAnn
July 10, 2015 at 9:54 PMAll three makeovers are fabulous!
Ginger
July 26, 2015 at 8:58 AMThe link (Drunk on Junk) for the recovered stool above goes to a Facebook page called Bohojo Designs. Is this the correct URL? I didn’t see the stool at all on that page.
Lindsey @ Better After
July 27, 2015 at 8:03 AMHmmm, I just checked it out, and you are right. The link is correct, but it looks like she must have changed her name. :/