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18 In desks/hutches/buffets

A Marred Armoire

Amateur furniture refinishers of the world, listen up.  I have a request. Stay away from the brown paint, ok?  Just stay away.  It doesn’t look like wood.  You are not fooling anybody.  It looks like … well, I don’t have to explain to you what it looks like. (Crap. Literally.)

But this armoire had bigger problems than just a poopy paint job, it had been in a fire!  And it stank to high heaven. Brooke at Bee Interiors washed, rinsed and repeated and repeated, not to mention stripped, sanded, scraped and oiled until it finally looked like the magnificent piece of furniture it was meant to be.  Thanks Brooke!  Is that fabric not the best thing that’s caressed your corneas today?


 


 


 

 

 
10 In tables/dressers

Fresh and Pretty

I’m in the mood to look at something pretty!  How about you?  If you are, then take a gander at this lovely dresser redo from Kari at Made Fresh Again.  If you aren’t … well, I don’t know what to tell you.  Why don’t you want to look at something pretty?  Maybe you should go back to bed.  What’s that?  You’ve changed your mind?  I’m so glad!  Behold, something pretty!





 







 


Oh, and take note of this!  Do you like that coral atop the dresser?  That stuff can get pricey. BUT I hear you can go to the pet section of your local Wal-Mart, or whathaveyou, pick yourself up some of that cheapy neon pink coral aquariam decor like they have, you know what I’m talking about, and simply spray paint!  Who’s the smarty pants who thought of that? 


 

2 In bathroom

Storming Off

What happens when you convert the storm porch of an old home into a makeshift laundry room?  Answer: You get a makeshift laundry room that pretty much looks like it used to be a storm porch. Nothing more.  

Julie knew her laundry/mud /storm/bath frankenroom was only temporary until it could be turned into the fantastic real-deal bathroom of dreams that it is today.  Yup, that is the very same space.  How about that dresser turned vanity, eh?  I’m sure no one is missing that haunted hospital sink. Can you even spot the extra piece of trim her husband had to attach to the dresser front to make the sink fit?  Very sneaky!  Check it out on her blog Thrifty Chic Designs.
















12 In lighting

A Galaxy Far Far Away

If you looked at this item and guessed right away that it was a lamp, give yourself a high-five.

I thought it was maybe a tractor cog, or a toy for highly advanced toddlers, teaching them how to stack rings while they learned about the solar system at the same time.  I see the Milky Way!

But didn’t Missey do a great job de-ugging it?  Check it out on her hilarious blog, RedoPalooza.  Unbelievably, this (before) lamp wouldn’t even be a contender in the Ugly Lamp Contest.  I have gotten some doozies so far that are going to blow your mind with fugtasticness.  Enter your ugly lamp today!





 





17 In kitchen/dining

Kitchen Thriller

You and I must make a pact …  Not really.  There’s no need for us to make a pact, nor bring salvation back. I’ve just had I’ll Be There by the Jackson 5 stuck in my head all day, and that’s the first line of the song.  I’m not complaining, it’s a great song! 
 
Funny story about that song:  I was driving around with my mom and sister in downtown Phoenix one day, trying to go visit a friend in the hospital.  I’ll Be There just happened to be playing on the radio.  I was unfamiliar with the area and kept getting turned around and around.  In my growing lostness and frustration, I went to flip a U-turn in the middle of a busy street (downtown Phoenix, you know).  At that very moment, my sister, who was in the backseat quietly singing along to the radio, decided to bellow out at full-force the part where little Michael goes “JUST LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER!!!!”  I screamed, swerved into some bushes, almost peed my pants and nearly killed us all.  So, just an FYI, sing that song with caution in the car.
 
That story doesn’t have much to do with this amazing kitchen redo from Annie.  Sorry.  Wait, here we go:  If you think that this old kitchen really needed to Beat It, You Are Not Alone. Now it’s a  Pretty Young Thing.  Thanks Annie!  (are you ok? are you ok? are you ok Annie?)    Sorry again.  Seriously stopping with the MJ lyrics now.  By the way, this kitchen remodel was done in 3 days for around $500.  You Rock My World!  Ok, stopping for real.



 







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4 In chairs/ottomans/seating

XOXO

I must give a cyber high-five double fist-bump hip-shimmy to Jenny for choosing what I think is the perfect fabric for this chair.  The graphic lines complement the style of the chair so nicely; it looks great against the x’s of the arms.  It really wouldn’t have been the same with like, a heavy floral or some fuzzy Winnie-the-Pooh fabric or somesuch, am I right? 

Check it out on her blog Days of Chalk and Chocolate, which is a tales from her life of teaching and enjoying chocolate, and not of her chalk-eating pica problem, which was my first thought.







 


 

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