Jenn from Livin the Simple Life had no room for a buffet, so she improvised! This lovely table was made with a wine rack topped with a piece of plywood. Yes, I said PLYWOOD. Amazing what a little stain and trim can do!
Here’s one from an honest-to-goodness decor pro to the stars: Eddie Ross. He got this chair at an antique store and envisioned it with thick horizontal stripes, slightly askew. After looking high and low for the perfect fabric and finding nothing that suited his style, he simply recovered it in white, taped it off, and sprayed it lightly with silver spray paint! So chic!
Sometimes the tiniest change can make the biggest difference. Amanda over at Imperfectly Beautiful had some grungy yellowing fridge handles. What to do? No amount of scrubbing can change that. But do you know what can? Spray paint made specifically for plastic. It’s like a brand new fridge! This is seriously the type of thing that would have me wandering into the kitchen for no other reason that just to grin happily at it.
Do you have anything that could use a little freshening up? Perhaps this would be possible on my shower floor. I don’t have a tile shower, it’s just made out of fiberglass, or whatever that stuff is, and the grunge is here to stay. But then again, maybe not!
This staircase was a little bland, especially when compared to that fabulous millwork going on in the room up front. So Katie, AKA Yoga Gal, and her husband dressed it up with some trim and paint, and now it looks great! I love that look, so very classic and custom. Thanks Katie!
Needing to fill a large blank wall, Melissa from Invited In found what she was looking for when she got this old hutch for $100 on Craigslist. She spruced it up with a bold green, although it wasn’t as easy as that.
She says, “I was overly optimistic about this piece. It is ginormous!! I did not realize all the work it would take to remove all eight doors, 20 hinges, 14 knobs, not to mention all the taping it took for covering the glass before spraying.”
Well, all that hard work certainly paid off! Thanks Melissa!
From yellow pine to fine wine! (Is it even pine? I can’t tell, but I like to rhyme.) I love the deep red on this armoire with the black antiquing peeking through. Check out Jill’s blog Off Woodland Lane for even more great furniture redoes.
