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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Design Help

So I dragged the Hubby to Joann's today, and aside from one male employee, he was the only man in there. I guarantee it was funny! I joked that he totally lost his 'man card'...did I mention I think I'm freaking hilarious...Hubby not so much.

Ok ok, here's where the help comes in, I bought fabric for some chair seats, and I have no idea what color to paint the chairs. What ever color I paint the chairs I'm also paint the base of my table, I'd like them to match each other, but not the china hutch.

Fabric Sample, it's a shade lighter than the green I have on my old chairs. We are getting rid of the old chairs, I found some I like so much better on craigslist for CHEAP! The fabric was half off and cost almost as much as the chairs and table I bought. The table isn't special. It will probably be sold.

This picture is old, but it pretty much looks like this still, only MUCH messier cause the Hubby is home and has bought a lot of crap and littered my table with it...no biggy...well little biggy. I'm not gonna lie, I'm Type A after all. lol I can live with the mess to have him home for a few weeks.

So what ASCP would you use?

Pink Armoire update, finally got Hubby to take the Bakelite handle off, so I could get the last of the paint off, and the handle broke...sigh. I guess I'm buying a new handle. I also think I'm going to use more of a know style and just fill the other whole. Something sparkly.

The old white/emperor's silk mix turned out great, love this shade of pink!

Have a great week!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Change of Ribbon

This by far was the easiest project I have ever done. I bought some cute white dishes at Marshall's not to long ago, the kind with the ribbon woven through it. I wasn't terrible fond of the red ribbon with white polka dots. I like polka dots, but not on my dining table.

Before red with polka dots.

After green with artichokes? I couldn't resist shopping my house and bringing my artichokes back out. I love them, cause they are fake and green.

I don't miss the polkadots.

Thanks for stopping by!! xx

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My Dining Table Gets an Upgrade!

Well to me it's an upgrade. I'm just so tired of my table cloth, it's vinyl and not very pretty. I figured since I have to clean the table every day regardless I would ditch the table cloth and buy a glass top for it. I can't leave it totally unprotected, I mean lets get real I have children! Enough said.

So I dragged little Lauren out with me yesterday, to find a glass top. I was going to buy one off craigslist, but the price wasn't much different than a new one and I figured I'd let my kids be the first to scratch it. Please not right away.

Lauren had a blast at the furniture store, you would have thought we were at Disney! She kept squealing "look at this chair!" or "this couch is so comfy!", and my favorite "can I have this room for my birthday!" It was a living room set btw! Which really made it that much funnier. I just said yes and would you keep up. It took 3 HOURS! Mostly because she had to sit on every piece of furniture, and because I got lost going to their warehouse...oopsies!

We survived and now it's home and in place. FYI, a 48 inch glass top is heavy, make sure someone helps you unload it and put it in place, and I'm talking not a three year old. My arms are still sore, at one point I was like 'arms don't fail me now!'

Before, ugly table cloth.

After, gorgeous wood grain!

I'm so glad I broke down and bought this, so worth it! My glass is definitely half full. The second best part, is was on sale! Woo Hoo.

Thanks for stopping by! xx

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Say it with Me...FREE TABLE!!!

Okay, so the title just about covers it. It was on craigslist for $100, and some how by magic, it was GIVEN to me. Yep just like that. Well okay, I did contact them to see if they would take less and I did go see it. Then I decided I really wanted it, but with Christmas right around the corner, I should wait. Well the owners, great people, decided they wanted to park in their garage more than they wanted my money!!!!! Get this, the hubby even delivered it! I should point out they live around the corner, but still, FREE and DELIVERED! Merry Christmas to me. lol

This the base, kind of a distressed cream color. Very nice actually, all I did was clean it up, the color stayed.

However, the top was a different story, it had to be stained. (American Walnut? I'd have to look at the can, but it was Walnut something and water based. I can tell you this for sure, I don't see any more water based stains in my future.) I couldn't, really I couldn't live with the 80's oak. In the top right corner you can see a glimpse of the new dining chairs, I'm in the process of removing 8 zillion staples, and then I will refinish them and add them to my dining room. (of course I'm still on the hunt for the perfect pneumatic upholstery 1/2 inch crown staple gun.)

*Giggle* She makes me very HAPPY! I say this about all the pieces I refinish, but she is pretty close to perfect. Maybe it's the FREE and DELIVERED factor. When if I ever finish the chairs, it'll be perfect....

I'm still debating about refinishing the piece in the corner here. What do you think? What color? I'm done with stain for a while, so please don't suggest it! lol And no green, I think I have enough in this room. REALLY!