This poor dresser deserved more than life had dished out. Abused, abandoned, and apparently used as a canvas for an unsupervised toddler, it was ready to give up on life completely … until Katie came along. She took one look at its sweet little keyholes and itty bitty casters, and was convinced that with love, paint, and some awesome card catalog pulls, it could keep on kicking!
See more on Katie’s blog Where There Are Octobers and if you dig those pulls as much as I do, you can find them here.
Welpers, posting is going to be a bit less frequent around here this week, cuz I’m on vacation! But don’t worry, I wouldn’t just leave you with nothing to cast your eyes upon.
How about this table makeover from Pelham at RPHD? It was so-so in every sense of the word, but he knew he could coax something special out of that patterned inlay. And did he ever! With eight shades of stains, including two custom blends, he created this checkerboard pattern that highlights all the graininess of the grain. Just lovely.
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Mary Ann at Classic Casual Home invited me over to her blog to take a look at the progress she’s made on her home, and I loved it so much, I decided to invite you along too! Next thing Mary Ann knows, we’re all going to be camped out in her living room, hogging the remote and raiding her fridge.
Sorry Mary Ann, but that’s what happens when you create a home as beautiful and inviting as this, guests will never want to leave! PS: I call first shower in the morning.
And how about her absostunning living room! Put my feet up? Don’t mind if I do. (I get that the before pic is mid-renovation, but that toilet in the yard is still cracking me up!) Hey Mary Anne, what’s for dinner?
On second thought, let’s eat out, because I wouldn’t dream of messing up your gorgeous kitchen. Although I might just stand around in there for hours oohing and ahhing and softly weeping. That’s not weird right? It’s just so pretty! That ceiling!
Looking for some kid stuff, baby this evening! I need some kid stuff, baby tonight! I want some kid stuff, baby this evening! Gotta have some kid stuff, gotta have some kid stuff toniiiiight!
My apologies to Donna Summer, but seriously Donna, it’s not like ‘hot stuff’ is anymore creative than ‘kid stuff.’
Anyway, here come some fun kiddie makeovers hot and fresh for you!
Eliesa at A Pinterest Addict found this very western stagecoach magazine rack and immediately re-imagined it as a princess carriage for her niece. Now instead of holding copies of Arizona Highways or something, (which I actually subscribe to because I am one step away from AARP apparently), it will be a handy holder for all her princess fairy-tales.
And Kristen, from Kristen Duke Photography, who I had the great pleasure of meeting and rooming with at SNAP, and now consider a friend, was excited about this rocking chair she bought brand-new for her first-born. As the years went on, she became less and less fond of it, until she realized that she would probably like it better if it was cute. So she gave it a fun and funky makeover and found out she was right!
If you asked me to make over this table, I probably would have stripped it, repainted it and maybe added a new knob. No. Let’s be serious. I would have started stripping it and gotten annoyed at how hard stripping is and left it half-naked in my garage for a year.
Not Deb! She had a vision for this simple little table. A deep clean, a fresh new paint job, an added shelf on the bottom, which I didn’t even notice at first because it seems like it was always meant to be there, and the best part, a colorfully planked tabletop made with 29 cent pieces of lath. Love it. I’m inspired to do something similar, because I’ve got this big stack of old yardsticks that I just don’t know what to do with, but now I do! C’mon Lindsey, follow through!
See more on Deb’s blog Lake Girl Paints.
