Emerald Green Rescued Dresser Before and After

Welcome back my Beauties!

I have a bright and beautiful makeover for you today!

A couple weeks ago my husband was out taking the dog for a walk and saw our neighbor had this dresser out for the trash. He quickly walked home and asked me if I wanted it.

I gave him the "LOOK" that conveyed "of COURSE I do!" and "HURRY UP BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE GRABS IT!" 

(normally I would have run out with him, but I had literally just stepped out of the shower)

The next thing you know I see him walking back up the road pushing this on my dolly...He didn't even mess around with the truck...he figured he took the dog for a walk, he might as well take the dresser for a walk! :)

It was in ok condition. It was a mix of particle board covered in "WOOD" looking stickers and solid wood.

The top was in almost perfect condition just needed to be cleaned up.

But the base...that needed some LOVIN!

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I wanted this dresser to POP and show off a little after being left by the curb, so I chose

General Finishes Emerald Green.

Here you can see it after just one coat!

It was starting to transform before my very eyes.

Since the hardware was still in great shape, all I did was clean those up and spray them with some shiny gold paint.

Once it was all dry, she was ready for the BALL!

While I am always happy to score free furniture, 

sometimes I wish the people who got rid of them could see how a little bit of love transformed them.

(but I still want the free furniture 😊)

This will be another dresser that is hard to part with,

but I am happy knowing that I saved another piece from the landfill.

I hope I inspired you to try out some color in your life and see how much it can transform a piece!

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Funky Farmhouse Rescued Table and Chairs Painted Makeover!

Welcome back my Beauties! 

Sorry to be away so long but Summer is one of those times we 

suck the life out of. 

We enjoyed our hiking trip to Utah and have taken a few days to 

get back into our regular schedule.

I am still in the process of going through all of my projects from last year when we lost my Mom.

This was one of those big projects that I did and quick photographed and brought to my booth and never had a chance to post. 

You can see from the above picture it was pretty beat up.

I picked this up free on the side of the road.

Structurally it was in great shape but the finish was destroyed.

I decided to give it a face lift with some funky and fun paint colors for a Funky Farmhouse feel.

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I knew I wanted to go with a two tone just to play off the chairs from the table base.

For the top I used two different grays and wet blended them.

I believe I used General Finishes Seagull Gray

and Driftwood

Working the two colors together while wet to give a slight layered finish. 

I used General Finishes custom color creator to mix up

Coastal Blue

and 

Persian Blue

I think you will agree it transformed this beat up old roadside rescue high top table and chair set into a funky and fun Farmhouse Style set!

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It's hard to believe it was the same set!

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover and I hope you are all having a BEAUTIFUL summer!

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

EASY DIY Mandala Artwork

Welcome back my Beauties.

Last week I showed you my Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover and I promised to show you how I made the art work for my bathroom.

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So here is how to make your SUPER Easy DIY Mandala Artwork.

To start you will just need a few basic items.

You don't need to use the same colors I used and you can "FREE STYLE" all you like.

This is just a guideline.

For my bathroom I chose Deco Arts Satin Enamel in Denim

and Deco Arts Metallics in Gold.

I have had this thrifted frame sitting in my stash for years.

I also had my 16x20 canvas panels in my stash.

The PERFECT fit for my frame. Can you say CONVENIENT?

I wanted something fun and eclectic so I chose to use my 

Mandala Stencil

Now to cover your canvas you could really use any brush you wanted.

Since I was rushing and I wanted large texture for my background I actually just used my 

wooster paint brush

It's the same brush I use for furniture.

I simply dabbed my brush with some of my blue paint and made LARGE swirling brush strokes over the whole canvas.

I wanted it to have depth so I didn't fully cover my canvas. I wanted some of the white poking through behind giving it texture.

Once the canvas was dry I grabbed my Stencil

and decided where I wanted it.

I knew I wanted to cover almost 3/4s of my canvas so thats where I laid it.

Then I grabbed my metallic paint and a stencil brush

and brushed on my pattern.

This is what I had after the gold. Notice all the texture now that its dry.

Now to make the frame feel a little more FRESH and FUN
I just used the same blue paint and filled in the canvas part of the frame.
It went on darker because of the different material and I LOVED the richness it added.
Once everything was dry I popped it in the frame and it was ready for its close up.

I love having something fun and eclectic in the bathroom.
I also like having something that is one of kind.

See, I told you it was EASY!
I can't wait to see what you guys make!
Until next time,
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover ~ Before and After!

Welcome back my Beauties.

I have been working on multiple projects and pieces for the booth, but I have been itching to show you my Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover!

I tried to wait out the weather so I could get some nice natural light to photograph, but alas; I live in Michigan and LIGHT is not something we are in surplus of here. 

I could have brought in my photography lights, but being a bathroom there really was no where I could put them without them showing up in any of the mirrors in the room.

SO, in keeping the "KEEPIN REAL" theme I tend to lean towards ...Here it goes!

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Here is the BEFORE!

Now I know its not terrible, but we have lived in this house almost 20 years and this vanity is STRAIGHT OUT OF THE 80's.

That tell tale Golden Oak that was so popular.

Now I know from the pics it doesn't look too bad, but what you can't see are the deep grooves from our old dog trying to dig to China on one of the cupboards when she got scared during a thunderstorm.

Being a BUDGET makeover my goal was to keep as much stuff as I possibly could. The tile is still in great condition as well as all the fixtures. 

I didn't want to replace or spend money on anything I didn't have to.

The first goal of my makeover was to give the bathroom a little character. Our home is 70 years old but this bathroom at one time had been half the size and one of the previous owners knocked out the wall to a giant closet and doubled the size of the bathroom. That turned it into a big old square box shape. To give the room a little more fun and excitement I decided to use some Faux White Brick removable wallpaper.

I will tell you it took me 45 minutes to hang this one piece.

Seeing as our house it OLD..walls aren't completely straight and unlike regular wallpaper this stuff doesn't SLIDE around.

You have to make sure you have it positioned where you want it before press it down.

Once I got the first row down the rest went much faster.

Since I was working in a room the children need on a daily basis, I did things in steps.

You can see here once I had hung the wallpaper I put the medicine cabinets back up.

Now normally I would have painted before I put them back up but having all the stuff piled in the hallway wasn't really conducive to a functioning bathroom for the kids.

Now it was time to decide what color I wanted to paint the cupboards. I chose General Finishes Driftwood Gray.

Again I worked in stages to keep the bathroom functioning.

After I had my cupboard paint picked out I could choose wall color.

I had a color custom mixed to match the shading in the mortar of the wallpaper.

And HERE is the AFTER!!!
I love how it all turned out.

My kids are pretty awesome and were oooohing and aahhhhing 

when I was done.

You can see here I kept the old towel bar and added some handmade art work above it. 

For some of the decor I just grabbed stuff I have had around my house.

My sister gave me this porcelain hand when I was 13 years old..it is now officially VINTAGE;

just like ME! :)

I will show you in another post how I made this simple piece of art work with a thrifted frame I have had for years and a Mandala Stencil  and Gold Metallic Paint

Some thrifted items, handmade items, a gallon of paint and one roll of wallpaper made for a Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover.

I will be back soon with the DIY for the artwork and some other furniture pieces I have been working on.

Until next time,

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL!