Master bedroom makeover
Wow! If you don’t believe in the power of a gallon of paint, you need to see my master bedroom makeover! From BM Chelsea Gray to BM Pale Oak and Behr Watery, the room seems to have doubled in size! So, I’ve been separated (the time he had actually moved out) since April 2019. I’m […]
Before & After – Lego Table
This Lego table / Lego storage project took a long time. Normally, I would have whipped out a nightstand in a day or two, but this one was well over a week – mostly because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with it. This is the crappy nightstand that I started with: Awful. […]
Before & After – Lockers
I read an article where a person was looking for pantry ideas; her home didn’t have one, and she wanted something she could put in her kitchen, but without a hefty built-in price tag. Her solution ended up being lockers. She retrofitted them with shelves and painted them a bright colour and they were AMAZING! […]
Lingerie chest makeover
This is a tiny little dresser – about 18″ wide and only about 12″ deep. I guess it would be called a lingerie dresser or lingerie chest? A “disaster dresser” to begin with. Look at the destroyed top! Missing knobs, chipped drawers – and what you can’t see inside, is that the drawer bottoms are […]
Treehouse / Playground Makeover
I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be working with Clancy’s Rainbow and Benjamin Moore on this next project – which is a doozy… Treehouse / Playground makeover! We purchased this commercial grade treehouse / playground years ago for $250. I KNOW! The hotel that it belonged to clearly didn’t know the going price for […]
Repurposed Dresser: Dresser, Toybox and Bookshelf in One!
*This is a post I wrote in June 2013 – one of my earlier blog posts. When I moved my site from Blogger to WordPress a lot of my Pinterest links broke, so I’m attempting to update older posts with a few new photos and create new links on Pinterest. If you were with me […]
Patio Cutlery Holders – Whimsical Watermelon DIY
This is a fun post – forget the rules of elegance and sophistication and instead make your next backyard party FUN with these “Whimsical Watermelon Cutlery Holders”. You’ll need to invest in some watermelon, lemon, orange or lime coloured paints – I bought tester pots at Home Depot, but most of the colours you’ll find […]