Lamp Revamp!

From Brass to Bronze!

My mother in law is completely renovating her kitchen and wanted to keep this fixture. I jumped from store to store looking for some oil rubbed bronze paint and finally gave up on it and just opted for ONE can of the bronze applance/fixture spray paint ($4.50!). I completed this project in one evening and the most time consuming part of this was just taping the glass to protect it from overspray. Other than that, my only sugesstion is to take a picture of how it fits together before you begin taking it apart or you will sit there for an hour trying to reasimble it. Good Luck! She loved the outcome!

Here are some before and after pictures: Enjoy!

Paited, dried, reassembled & DONE!

LINKY PARADE!!!!

Its a Parade over at "Smart and Trendy Moms"!!!! Go to her page to find new blogs to follow and link yours up as well!!!! She has a great page and I hope everyone enjoys the parade!!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!!!
-Micah-

FRIEND FRIDAY!

I have been wondering.... "How do people get so many followers???" Well, lucky me... its FRIDAY and I just found the "Find a new friend Friday"! What a great idea!!! So, I will be checking out all the links that have been linked up here at Dilly Dailly and Flitter I hope all who visit my page enjoys what they find and if you have any suggestions, please leave comments!!! I am new to this and I am figuring it all out one step at a time! Feel free to become a follower, I love followers!!! I hope you all have a great weekend and have fun finding new friends!!! -Micah-

Vintage Chest of Drawers

My mom found this for me at a garage sale for $40. I kept it white, but destressed it a little to get the shabby chic / vintage french look for my guest bedroom!!! All I did was sand down the areas that had some paint chipping away, cleaned it up and sprayed two coats of "Dove" colored paint on it. I kept the original hardwear on the bottom four drawers and bought two new crystal ones for the top drawers. I like the way it turned out...it didn't take much work, just a little TLC!

This is my before picture:

These are some after pictures:

Moss Letter

This is a moss letter I made for my back door! I just took a large piece of florist foam and carved out the letter and then took some green moss and hot glued it to the foam! Oh yeah, and I stuck a little bird in there too!!! I think he completes it! The camera didn't do the colors in this picture justice!!! The door is red, not orange and the moss is green not this funky brown!!! Oh well, I still like it!

Hutch Redo

My camera wasn't working when I received this piece so I took a picture with my phone which uploaded to a 1"x 1" image! (not going to work)

Anyway, I don't have the before picture, but just picture this thing brown and moldy! I used TSP on it and then I took a cheap sponge brush, some 50% off red paint from Walmart and began painting. Two coats of red paint later I was ready to destress it! I took a old cloth towel, wet half of it and then used some black paint. I only used small amounts of paint on the wet side of the towel... wipe on ... then wipe off with the dry side of the towel. Thats it!

After doing this all over the hutch, I put on the original hardwear back on and decorated it with wedding gifts that have been in the closet for two years! I am happy with the way it turned out and to free up a closet!!!

Plate Wall

This is my small yet, unique plate wall. I didn't have much room to work with over my stove, so I had to leave a few plates out :o( Oh well! I still like it!

Kitchen cabinet redo!

I didn't change much from where it started, but I feel it looks a little more up to date!!! My mom made the window treatment, and we took the window unit out! Then, I took the old brass door pulls off patched up the holes, put a fresh coat of paint on them and drilled new holes for my new black knobs!!! Then I used the idea from "4 Peas in a Pod" and had a friend create me some black diamond decals and stuck them on as a backsplash! I think it came out great for only having to buy new knobs $80 and my decals were $20!!! Big change for $100 total!!! Here are a few before and after pictures!!!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Laundry Room

Before... during... and still not finished laundry room:

Well, the wash room started out as a wooden floor that the previous owner painted gray and they put up gray panelling... yes, I said GRAY PANELLING!!! YUCK!!!

Make a long story short, I never wanted to go in there... it was horrible!!!

Here, let me prove it:

So then my sister came over for the weekend and we made it fun!!!

See:

Finally, we finished painting and I still have to find some shelving to put on the walls!!! Until then, this is my "Oasis"!

Kitchen Table

This is the before and after of my kitchen table and chairs. I bought the set for $125 on craigslist and stole "borrowed" the PB knock off idea from fellow bloggers!! It fits perfect in my small nook area and looks like new thanks to a few coats of black spray paint!

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Easter Wreath

This was a modified version of everyone else's Easter wreaths on DIY blogs! I just painting plasitc Easter eggs a cream color with spray paint, then splattered them with an old toothbrush and brown paint... easy!!! Next, I just used a hot glue gun to stick on the cross and randomly plance the eggs. Then finally hung it on the back door for all to enjoy!!!

Window Treatment cont.

Same fabric my mom used on the treatment she made for my sink window, but this one is on my back door!

Kitchen Window Treatments

This is something my mom made and it looks sooo pretty in person, it is over my kitchen sink!

After end Table

AFTER: Its a little hard to see the metallic shine due to the bad lighting, but I orignally wanted to silver leaf the table, but thought it may come out too shiny. Then while shopping at Hobby Lobby, I found some metallic paint that wasn't silver, but yet it wasn't gold. It looks perfect next to my curtains which have the same color thread throughout the light teal silk fabric. I LOVE IT!

Before end table

BEFORE: $45 dollar end table from an antique store

My First Blog!

I am just trying to figure this all out, so if anyone is reading this, please excuse the mess!!!
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