living room

Designing the living room was a big deal to me. I was so nervous because my main color was from my drapes that I sewed! I tend to be colorful, and for the sake of my husband I tried my best to keep the colors neutral with small pops of color in accent pillows, drapes, etc...


I purchased the couches years ago, the vintage train cart was from Home Goods, rug ikea, entertainment piece-ikea, lamp-z-gallerie, pillows-pottery barn/home goods/target.

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I was so worried with the wall colors, but once we got the drapes up I really love how the room turned out!

bedroom

These night stands were my parents that they had for over 20+ years, and I knew they would be perfect in our bedroom so I redid these, and found this dresser at a thrift store. I started to sanded, more sanding...painted and added knobs! This took me about a week to finish everything and a couple coats of paint!


The key to getting a slick finished piece is using a spray gun. I have not used spray paint on these pieces. The spray gun makes it very easy to paint any type of furniture and different woods.


Dresser-$50
Knobs-$2.50 each

Nightstand-free
knobs-$2.50 each
paint-$100 but I used this on 7 pieces of furniture.

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Louis "French" Chair

I loved cheetah french chairs and really really wanted one for my desk, make up area...We had a huge warehouse 10,000+ where my family has always upholstered and my uncle actually had this chair in the back, man do I wish I had a picture of it before! It was so ugly and was just wood (like picture, so it came a long way!!)

My uncle gave me the chair for free, and I used fabrics leftover from some of his jobs, so only had to pay for the spray paint of $8 !! Not bad for a pretty cool chair!!

I am planning on changing out the hot pink seat to all cheetah over the off season..

Total Cost: $8 !! 

Ottoman

This is one of my all time favorite pieces I have done!! I wanted something so girly (before I took Jake into consideration) NO PINK DOWNSTAIRS in our new place.. haha 

I ended up buying the store model of a ottoman at Pottery Barn that was just dirty, and nothing too special for a steal, and ended up reupholstering it, and painting the legs! I have brought this with us for the season to make our place feel more like home, and I must say ALL the boys love it (no lie) 

home #1

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home #3

This took about 8 hours to reupholster, the removing of fabric and getting all the staples out was definitly time consuming and painful! 


I can't remember cost of this, but priceless to me!! :) If I have a girl one day will be perfect in the nursery, or my dressing room! 

Barstools

DIY Barstools

I really wanted something fun and different for our kitchen barstools, first I didn't have a lot of money to spend, and secondly I couldn't find anything I liked. 

I went to pick up patio furniture and they were moving so said if saw anything else make them an offer, I got all 3 barstools for $30! I was excited about them because I had just purchased two barstools (exact ones for $60 from Walmart) agh --RETURNED!

A little sanding, spray paint, sanding, paint, seat cushion, and upholstered!

I used foam leftover from another project, and got some fun fabric! I am so excited for these in our new place! 

before the sanding

Total Cost: $50