Blasts from the past

Would you believe that Better After turns seven years old this year? Seven! That’s like a thousand years old in blog years. This old blog has seen a lot over the years, with the archives to prove it. There are more than 3,000 before and afters featured right here in this little corner of the internet. That’s really a mind-boggling number to me! Mind=boggled.

And just when I think I’ve seen it all, something new and wonderful pops up in my inbox. And just when I think everything that can possibly be made over has been made over, I get a REmakeover or two, too.  Congratulations if you managed to followed that last sentence at all.

What I mean is that sometimes an ‘after’ gets to be made into an even better ‘after.’

Jenn knows what I’m taking about.  She sent me this project ages ago. (The original post is here).

That was then, and here it is today:

In my original post I mentioned that the butterfly fabric could easily be updated for a more grown-up look, and that’s exactly what happened, along with a black and white gallery wall to really punch your eyeballs with awesomeness.

Jenn had also sent in another cabinet makeover, which I originally shared here. She had painted it and changed the handles, and streamlined it by removing the feet and mounting it to a wall, which I loooooooved.

I still love that look, but I love it even more in its current incantation:

She changed up the handles yet again and wrapped in in dark wood. It’s simply fabulous. And I still adore that watercolor world map too. More to see of this project on her blog Heim-elich.

*sniff* My little better afters are getting so grown up!