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

Vintage lockers, school lockers, metal lockers, bank of lockers, locker makeover

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

Lingerie dresser, painted lingerie dresser, small dresser, panty dresser, bra dresser

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 […]

Repurposed Dresser: Dresser, Toybox and Bookshelf in One!

Dresser makeover, Repurposed dresser, kid's dresser, dresser with bookshelf, dresser with toybox, dresser bookshelf toybox 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 […]

Janice’s Sideboard

Take an old sideboard and mix it with some Irish fun and a great pair of knobs and you get this fantastic buffet makeover! Painted furniture, furniture makeover, mint furniture

Do you have stereotypes for different countries? The people of the country I mean. I am embarrassed to admit that I do. Nothing negative, more along the lines of Australians are beach babes and partyers and Irish are fun and love a pint. My stereotypes are based solely on what I’ve seen on Pinterest or […]