Creating an Eating Nook with IKEA benches

Welcome back my Beauties!
Today I am going to show you how I created my Eating Nook with Ikea benches.

Last week I showed you my Kitchen Makeover that you can see HERE!
Now I will show you how I created that cute little  Eating Nook in that odd corner of my kitchen that has been the bane of my existence for almost 20 years.

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While working on my kitchen makeover, I was trying to figure out what I could do with the weird corner in my kitchen.
For almost 20 years I have put corner china cabinets or hutches there trying to just fill the space.
I could never figure out what else to put there.
I wanted to build a corner bench for the kids but knew I didn't want to do a full construction project incase I ever wanted to change up the kitchen again. (I know myself and I know how much I love to change things, so I try to do things that aren't PERMANENT so I don't have to worry about Commitment Issues with major construction issues :)) 
So one day I got on my computer and looked up simple benches. 
I came upon these
 IKEA Molger benches.

I linked to the ones they sell on Amazon if you don't have an IKEA near you. They are much cheaper at IKEA but I know not everyone has that option.

I spent a total of $75 on the two benches straight from Ikea. 

Once I got my benches I started assembling them.  You can see here I have one together and just starting on the second one. 

I got my Bistro table from World Market but only because it was on SUPER SALE and I had an awesome $10 gift card.

If I hadn't scored that I would have bought this one from AMAZON. 

Now you can see from this picture how that little space in the corner would have been left open. I knew if I left it open then stuff would just fall down and the kids would lay and put their feet on the wall. 

So I painted up this little square table that my sister in law had given me and sawed the legs down to just the right size to put in the corner.

Once I had my benches and tables in place I could start decorating.

I wanted a fun eclectic feel so I purchased some 

Embroidered Mandala throw pillows from a local home store.

For the walls I grabbed one of my canvas prints from our trip to IRELAND that you can see HERE.

I also put up this really cute geometric metal and glass wall ledge to put some decor on.

The other wall is where I hung my "Drink More Travel Often"

Sign that I made that you can see HERE!

And that, my Beauties,

was how easy it was to create this simple Eating Nook using Ikea Benches.

It was so fun and I love the FUNCTION that it added to our dining area.

No more wasted space just filling a cabinet to fill that corner.

My daughter sits and draws here, my son loves to eat his breakfast here, and I love to drink my coffee here.

Even though we have lived in our house for almost 20 years, it's so fun to change things up to make it feel different once in awhile.

No need to pack boxes and up our mortgage; just a few hours of work and the place feels NEW!

I hope you enjoyed this latest DIY project.

I seem to have been on a roll lately, but I think mostly it's from being trapped in the house during these dark and cold months.

Hopefully the sun will soon be shining and I will be back showing you furniture makeovers.

Until then,

Go make someone's day BEAUTIFUL!

$5 Coffee Table turned Nautical Bench.

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Welcome back my Beauties!

Its time for another makeover and this time its time for our 

THEMED FURNITURE MAKEOVER.

Once a month myself, and some of my blogging friends get together and do a Themed Makeover.
This months theme is COASTAL

I picked up this table at a garage sale a few weeks back and new instantly this would be my nautical project.

I knew I could easily turn it into a bench.

First thing was to remove the top. 

I love these kinds of coffee tables because they have these great little screws all along the top that make them easy to remove.
I just grabbed my cordless drill and removed it.

You can see here where I had done the same thing to a longer table.

Once I had my table top off I grabbed my roll of batting and cut it a little bit bigger than the size of the top making sure I would have enough to roll over the edges to round it out.

 

After that I used my staple gun to affix my yellow anchor fabric to the table top.

 

Once the top was done I decided to use some Chalky style gray paint for the base. My fabric has very light gray graphics on it and I thought this would be a good way to compliment it.

 

And here she is all finished.

Not bad for a $5 table.

 

A total transformation!

I hope you enjoyed this makeover and I would love for you to pop on over and see what all my other bloggy friends have been working on for their themed furniture makeover.

Until next time,

Have a Beautiful day!

An InLinkz Link-up

Not so PERFECT Vintage Desk and Free Vanity Bench Makeover

Hitting REPLAY on an old post.
ENJOY!

Good Morning My Beauties! 

Last night I asked on FACEBOOK if you guys would like to see

NOT SO PERFECT posts.

You guys said yes...SO here is the first one.

Last night I explained that when I get super busy, I don't have time to 

set and photograph all the pieces.

Sometimes I have about 10 minutes before I have to bring some pieces in.

This set was one of them.

The desk started out like this.

Your typical wood and metal old school desk.

The bench started like this. 

My lovely sister gave it to me. 

Its an old vanity bench. it was in great condition but needed an update.

I grabbed some gold spray paint and started painting the legs.

I had no idea what I was going to do yet.

But once I started painting I got in the groove.

I painted the wood part of the base a nice mint green and then started

on the bench.

I painted the bench a cream color and found some cool coordinating 

fabric to pull it all together.

Now to the not so perfect addition. In my attempt to recover this bench

I learned how to do the special BACK covering. I thought it went pretty good but

the nail head trim went in a little crooked. 

But like I said this is a NOT so PERFECT post!

 Here it is. The finished set...

The not so perfect...

finished set.

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Thankfully someone else enjoyed this because it sold pretty quick

after I brought them into the booth.

Well that was the first of our 

NOT so PERFECT posts.

I hope you enjoyed.

Until next time.

Go make someones day Beautiful!

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Old Coffee Table turned Upholstered Bench

Running around like a chicken with its head off, so I am hitting replay on this old post!


Hello again my Beauties!

I have another fun makeover for you today.

I have had this coffee table sitting in my garage for 2 years...

Shhhh don't tell my hubby I admitted it.

He gets a bit perturbed when projects sit and I don't do anything to them for a while. 

This one had confounded me. You see, coffee tables are not HUGE sellers around here,

let alone, long 70s fake laminate top coffee tables.

Now I know I could have simply painted it and tried to sell it as a coffee table,

but I knew it had a better purpose.

I just had to figure out what it was.

Well;  INSPIRATION always seems to hit me when I have about 10 other projects going on

and this project was no different.

I was working on another (5) projects when I had a face palm moment.

(actually I was moving my craft stash and found my batting and thought DUH...

Lets make it a bench!

So I unscrewed the top of the table from the base and got to work.

Once I had the top off, I grabbed my fabric batting, cut it to size and started 

stapling it to the board.

Once I had my batting stapled with it curving around the edges to make it soft all the way around 

I got to upholstering my fun fabric that I had picked out.

For those that ask "HOW", I say its like wrapping a present.

I pull the one side and staple it down, making sure to keep it in line;

then do the opposite side pulling it taunt as I staple it.

Then you go to the others.

When you get to the corners you carefully fold it in being careful not to bunch

and lay it nice and flat then staple it. 

After I was done with that I went on to painting the base.

I chose a nice neutral gray to go with the fabric.

I think you will agree...

It looks much better as a Bench than it did as that dirty old coffee table.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover!
Until next time...

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL.

Gossip Bench Classic Makeover ~Themed Furniture Makeover

Hello again my BEAUTIES!

Its that time of MONTH again!

You guessed it.

Its THEMED Furniture Makeover Day!

This months Theme was "BLACK"

Here is what I started with. 

Originally this bench had some nasty fabric on it.

I had recovered it once and left it as is, to sell at my booth.

I  always get people telling me "DON'T PAINT THAT"!

So sometimes if a piece is in decent shape I will do what I did here and just recover and put it in the booth

for all the NON paint lovers. 

GUESS WHAT?

I didn't sell, so I brought it home, pulled off the material

and started over.

I lightly sanded the whole piece seeing as it had a bit of a glossy

finish and got out my sprayer

and filled it with Ralph Laurens "EBONY"

I put on 2 coats and let it dry.

When it was ready I RE Recovered the seat....AGAIN. :)

I think you will agree, it looks much better now.

I love how the Greek Key fabric pulls it all together.

Its a much better LOOK I think for this piece.

 and now its ready to GO BACK to my Booth.....AGAIN!

Thanks for stopping over and please be sure to check out all my other

DIY furniture Girls 

Themed Furniture Makeovers!
You can see them all below.

I can't wait to see what they have come up with.

Until next time.

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!