Trash to treasure

I love a good deal. Mike and I stopped by the Goodwill store near our house on Saturday morning. So glad we did. We found some great deals. I knew when I saw this dresser I liked it but when I saw the $10.95 price tag I liked it ever more. A little paint and new hardware and it is ready for the master bedroom.

The dresser has great detail so I thought it would look great in white. I was right ;) The top 2 drawers are angled and the legs are great!

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After:

Master bath vanity

The master bath vanity was stained a dark brown by the previous owners. It was not the best staining job. We decided to sand it down and paint it blue, since nearly everything else in our room/bathroom is brown, working on fixing that. It only took about 3 hours to get all the drawer fronts, cabinet doors and actual vanity sanded. It took 5 paint samples to get the right blue, blah!After it was done Mike and I were very happy with the outcome. New hardware helped too!

Nearly forgot a before picture:

All primed:

Finished! I love it!

Guest bath vanity

Our "guest" bathroom needed some love. When we moved in it was all black and white with a wallpaper boarder. We took that down and painted to match the rest of the house. The baseboards were black which was super fun to paint over. The vanity was also painted black. We decided to paint it and glad we did. It was not so fun sanding all the black paint off but worth it to make the room look more "us".

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During:

After. The paint didn't photograph very well. It is green but not THAT green. We also added hardware, which I think adds a lot.

And a new toilet paper holder.

Next for this bathroom: removing the shower doors and putting up and shower curtain.

Different kind of picture frame

Our master bedroom is very bare. We have furniture and a wall art but other than that it is pretty bare. It is also huge so covering the walls is a task. I saw this idea in the Pottery Barn catalog some time back and I thought it was a great idea for over our bed.

Here is the space above our bed before:That is a window in the middle.

Here is what I used to create this "picture frame" All from Wal-Mart and all for under $10. Two silver command hooks (I love these things!), clothespins and 1 inch ribbon (mine is brown)

I stuck the hooks up as evenly as possible then tied one end of the ribbon on one hook and draped it across to the other.

I think used the clothespins to attached pictures from our wedding and vacation last year. Our love letters from Valentine's day are up there too, mushy I know!

I love this idea because you can change things up easy and quick.

Dinning room lighting

It has been a while, a very long while. We haven't done much to the house recently but we are about to embark on a few things so hopefully I will have more updates than just the 2 I am going to post about today. I promise to try harder!

Our dinning room is on the back of our house with a sliding glass door. It faces west. It gets real hot while the sun is setting aka dinner time most nights. I have wanted to put a ceiling fan in there for a while so we finally did it!

This is what the fixture looked like before. I like this fixture so we moved it to the entry way.

And this is the after. Mike had to get a little creative putting it up as the fan bracket didn't line up the way it should. But he is handy and figured it out =]
It matches the one in the living room but only has 3 lights instead of 4. It is keeping the dinning room nice and cool now!

It's been a while

I know it has been forever but we haven't done a home project in a while either. I finally found some fabric napkins to make curtains out of, my mom taught me this secret. I love the way they turned out, a little vintage and match the colors of the kitchen perfect!

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Project:: Organizing

I love my kitchen. We have a loverly pantry right next to the fridge but it is hard to store too much there because the cupboards are deep and once you fill it up you can't see what you have in the back. Solution: Slidey basket thingies. We found them at Home Depot for only $20 each. Super easy to install....seriously I put them in while Mike fixed the toilet. I plan on putting them on all the shelves in this cupboard.

Here is the cupboard before:

Here is the after. The baskets hold a lot more than I expected. They also give the cupboard some nice division which makes them so much easier to organize.

Close up:

I have stored my jewelery in a dresser drawer for a while now. I never wear any of it because I never remember I have something to match until I am already out the door or I can't get it untangled from the mess in the drawer. Solution: cork tiles in my closet. I have a very nice walk in closet all to myself so I took advantage of the wall behind the door of my closet and put up cork tiles. They were less than $6 at Target and I bought a $1 pack of push pins. So for less than $10 I have easy access to all my jewelery and I freed up a dresser drawer.

I attached some ribbon to the center tile with hot glue to hang earrings. I felt pretty genius.