It's finally done!

PFEW!!! The chest of drawers is finally DUNZO!  I can't tell you how many countless hours I have spent on this thing.  It gave me fits from the get go and at one point I was ready to haul it out to the curb. I am glad I didn't because I LOVE the way it turned out!  Here is a before picture.....

Totally 70's. Look at that GAWDY hardware! Yuck  : P

I loved the chunckiness of this piece and I loved how the drawers had some detailing in them.  Here is how it turned out. 

I primed and painted and originally didn't plan on distressing this piece but it kind of happened by mistake, so I just went with it.  I would have liked to bring this inside to take a really good picture of it but I don't even have 1 inch of free space in my house, so for now, it is staying in the garage.  I have looked everywhere for hardware for this thing and I just couldn't find what I was looking for.  I knew what I wanted but it was no where to be found until.............TARGET!! Everyone knows I LURV me some Target!!! It is my favorite place in the whole wide world.  I get everything at Target.  Why not furniture hardware, right??? It is my new favorite go-to place for hardware.  It is nice and affordable and I think they even have a better selection than our Home Depot. Huh......Who woulda thought??? 

Aaron actually liked this soooo much that he is trying to convince me to sell our chest of drawers and keep this one.  Hmmmmm!!!  I bought the matching dresser also and I really wanted to sell them as a set but now I am thinking that maybe they both can find a new home in our bedroom. If I do end up keeping these I would like to put decorative legs on them to give them a little more UMPF!!! We'll just have to see!   : O

 I have 2 pieces of furniture that I am currently working on right now that I am totally excited about. Wish me luck! One of them could be tricky!!

My new blog spot :)

My new blog spot is finally complete. Desk painted--check, chair painted and reupholstered--check!  Ever since I found my desk I was on the hunt for the perfect chair.  I knew that I wanted a chair that I could reupholster with a really cute fabric so I knew that this chair from the Goodwill would be perfect. 

I wish I would have taken a before picture of the chair because it was UG-LY.  I originally had a different fabric picked out for this chair but in true Kelly fashion, I changed my mind at the last minute. 

I did have a really cool mirror that I bought at a garage sale to put above the desk but Aaron broke the mirror when he was trying to adjust the hanger on the back of it.  Oh well, I guess it is better that he has 7 years of bad luck instead of me.  He He He!!  All I need now is a cute little lamp and I won't have to blog in the dark. 

P.S. I will reveal the contents of the desk in a later post.  That needs a post all its own.  Stay tuned!

Invasion of the FURNITURE SNACHER!

I first have to say a huge THANK YOU and I'M SORRY to my husband Aaron.  In the last month I have completely taken over his garage. Did I say garage? I meant garage, tools and "man space." It is beginning to look like an episode of Hoarders over at my house.  It has gone from neat and tidy, I would even go so far as to say over-organized, to cluttered, dirty and disorganized.  Aaron loves his garage more than life itself. He would spend every waking moment in there if he could. It has a stereo, T.V and beer fridge (what more could a man ask for?)  On any given day you can find him vacuuming out the cracks in the concrete floor. No joke, he really does. This is what my garage looks like now.....

1 coffee table, 2 end tables,  3 dressers, a sick old refridgerator and Jenny (Aaron's boat).

Is there a 12 step program for craigslist?? I tell myself that I am going to stop but what girl can pass up a great deal or steal!!! Gone are the days that Aaron comes home and I ask him how his day was. Now he walks in the door and I say, "Ok don't be mad but I bought more furniture today.....but I got a great deal."  Not once has he complained (at least not to me) that it is no longer his garage but MY GARAGE!!! He even converted the bedroom in the basement to my "studio" hoping that would free up some space in the garage.  I told myself that I won't go craigslist shopping until I can get a couple more pieces painted and sold.  We will see how long that lasts.  ;) 

Buffet Makeover

It's funny how life works sometimes. It must have been meant to be for me to end up with this buffet from Aaron's Great-Grandmother. A couple of weeks ago when I was just starting my furniture rehab projects my mother-in-law said that she had this buffet that no one wanted.  It even sat a whole weekend at the garage sale in Ord. I don't know how many people probably walked by it that weekend, but I guess no one saw what I saw.  She was beautiful! Straight out of the 50's. I felt a vision coming on.  Not only was I looking for a buffet/server for my dining room but how cool is it that this piece of furniture has been in the family for close to 60 years.  And now she was mine, all mine!!! I kind of felt bad that I was going to change the entire look of the piece but I was assured that NO ONE else in the family wanted it.  So here is a before picture...




  Notice the checker board on the top three drawers. I initially loved it because it was so different but then I had an idea.  What if I sanded them flat?? Aaron didn't think I had it in me but I was out to prove him wrong. So I got out my 60 grit sand paper and went to town.  (I will admit, I was A LOT apprehensive. I mean, what if it didn't work and the drawers are ruined?) Where there's a will, there's a way. It took some tenacity and some muscles but the end result turned out awesome.   Here is the after....

I stripped the top and re-stained it a dark walnut color and painted the rest a color called Swiss Mocha.  I lightly sanded all the edges just to make them pop a little bit and glazed it with a light tea stain glaze.  After a couple of trips to every single Menards, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. store in town to find harware I finally decided on these, and I LOVE THEM!!! It doesn't even look like the same piece of furniture.  On Wednesday night Ken, Audrey and Kim came over to see it and LOVED it!!! If they are happy them I am happy!!  :)

My new desk

For months now Aaron has been begging me to get the laptop off of the kitchen counter so I thought that was a perfectly good reason to go to Target and buy the desk I wanted for $130. NOT!!! He was no-way no-how going to go for that so I started stalking craigslist (I hold this desk fully responsible for my now craigslist addiction) and found this little guy for only $10.

It has some great bones but needed a little facelift. I sanded it really well and covered all the scratches and dents with wood putty.

I decided to paint it black and I used Behr paint and primer in one in Forever Black. I told the salesperson at Home Depot that it goes against all of my being to not prime first but let me tell you, this paint is the Bomb-diggity!!! My desk has found a home in my dining room. Here is the after......

Isn't it Purdy?!?!?!

Desk-$10

1 quart of paint-$14

Knob-88 cents a piece

Grand total= $30.16

I heart AQUA!!

Who would have thought that me of all people would actually paint something blue/aqua. I am more of an earthy tone kind of gal but there was something about this color. I have been dying to paint something this aqua color by Rustoleum so when I found this table at the Goodwill for $5.99, I knew this was going to be my 1st aqua piece. My plan for this table was to just paint and glaze but when she was all painted up, she was screaming......"Distress me, big time"! So that is what I did. I love love love the way it turned out!!!! Now my next mission is to find 2 little chairs to go with it.

I really wish I would have taken a before picture. The table top was yellow and the legs were pink, yellow and blue. YUCK!!! So here she is....(of course my camera really doesn't do it any justice)

Folly Beach or Bust!!!!!

It is 11:15pm the bags are packed, Aaron and the kids are sleeping and I am exhausted. I can't go to bed for another 23 minutes because I got a wild hair up my butt and had to bake a loaf of banana bread for our trip. Why? Why?? Why??? Do I do this to myself.

We are hoping to leave anywhere between 2 and 4 am. It all depends on how much sleep Aaron gets. He has locked himself down in Jake's room and that is probably why he didn't hear the phone ring when I tried to call him at 10:00pm to have him come rescue me at the baseball diamonds. Get this......stupid me, I left the keys in the car all night. Not only did I leave the keys in the car, but I left the car on. Not running, but ON. DUH!!!!!!! I was in such a fluster when I pulled into the parking stall. All 3 kids were going in all different directions and I was trying to get out of the car to stop them from running in the street. Luckily there were still a few people left at the fields and I got some nice man to jump my car for me. Sometimes I wonder about myself!! LOL

12 minutes until my bread is done and I can hit the sack. Hopefully I will get a change to blog on vacation. :)