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the sly lightly listening for gift ideas when talking to friends and family my mil gave me the perfect idea as we walked into the hobby store one day after she spotted a shutter cabinet she said she d like they have an old farm house and 100 year old farmhouse shutters just waiting to be made into something beautiful i took four and made them into a room divider screen and my fil made the same both are yet waiting to be painted it s quite a job but somehow i convinced him to help me make her a shutter cabinet as a christmas surprise from all of us the idea in my head was something like this what actually came out was simpler but it ended up being just right he actually made it all and i painted the shutters but i have to say it was my idea so i can take the credit for that right he just gets the credit for all the hard work either way it was an idea and labor of love he had the original hinges sandblasted they look brand new amazing and had some rare wormy chestnut boards planed joined and sanded to make the cabinet body the boards were originally wide baseboards in the farmhouse so cool to reuse and reclaim to make something beautiful and here is the final piece the first pictures show the original color shutters old green and the cabinet as she saw it on christmas morning we wanted to surprise her but we also wanted her to pick the color so we didn t paint them until after we gave it to her and after painting she picked the prettiest color the pictures don t do it justice it s a greige rustoleum s chalk paint color pebble and absolute perfection you can see the dings and imperfections in the antique shutters no sanding these just a fresh coat of paint they aren t supposed to look perfect and new my fil oiled the wood for a natural finish and voila an in kitchen reclaimed shutter cabinet pantry at 4 17 pm no comments labels diy furniture more furniture transformations and the booth currently 3 29 2017 i found this night stand at the thrift store for 10 i usually like to find the projects that are a lot of work for free so i can just chuck them if they get to be too much work but since i paid for this one i kept going it was a mess there was a coat of gray underneath this gross thick badly painted coat of gel stain halfway stained the gray paint was everywhere inside who paints sides and rails of drawers the paint was dripping on the drawer runners etc so bad i fixed up a few chipped spots with wood filler and then tried to strip this baby again i made a huge mess and so much work for myself i left my mineral spirits at home when i worked on this project in arkansas so the stripper and leftover paint stain dried to it i had to resand everything down after i restripped it so gross it took hours but here it is my dad helped me clean up the drawers and i finally was able to stain the top and repaint the rest there is no way i ll get the money out of this that the time i put into it deserves but i ll have the satisfaction knowing that i saved it right and it will have a new life and hopefully i ll learn my lesson on what pieces are actually worth the time and effort or maybe not haha here s a solid wood pedestal from a friend it didn t quite fit into my ruined wood that needs to be painted category but it wasn t an antique either i immediately envisioned it in napoleonic blue chalk paint and it had to be so i think it has so much more character and the blue is gorgeous you can see some brush strokes but that s chalk paint for you and i don t mind at all and look at those little brass feet so cute here s a mid century style desk with 70s finishings before the goodwill guy that loaded it into my car tried to put it in with all of the drawers still in it which resulted in him dumping them out onto the pavement two were broken apart but thankfully at the dovetail joints where i could easily glue them back together but still more work for me i researched the best brass spray paint and purchased it i was finally ready to give those ugly pulls a spray and at the last moment decided to use some bar keeper s friend cleaning powder on it with a little elbow grease i revealed the actual brass handles people i was about to paint real brass handles fake brass ahh they aren t perfect but scrubbed up well and while not perfect they look so good i returned the paint all the wiser to the best brass spray paint for next time and returned the hardware to its rightful places and here is the after not too shabby for a tiny bit of semi gloss paint and a 10 thrifted desk and here are photos of the booth currently my friend sarah got a chance to mark some of her fun finds most of the smalls will be hers because mine are almost all gone will update when things change significantly we have a mid century modern month coming up and both of us are getting ready for it so excited at 12 56 pm 1 comment labels diy furniture upcycled a new antique booth and some furniture transformations 3 21 2017 i have fun news since the beginning of february i ve been filling my own antique booth mostly with lavender and furniture transformations but also a smattering of vintage and antiques that i dug up around my home mostly i want to do furniture fix ups so i was hoping my friend would join me with her smalls and after 6 weeks she has the projects below were the first i put in the booth our neighbor randomly gave me this tri foot antique table but the base and veneer was badly cracked thankfully it was still very sturdy but i put a lot of time and wood filler into this table it was the perfect candidate for a chalk paint makeover after i put bondo on and filled and sanded the top i painted it with a couple of coats of annie sloan s napoleonic blue and waxed it with clear and dark wax the lion pull was on it before i got it but isn t the original drawer pull but it was the last perfect touch to complete it the table sold on the same day as these ladderback chairs they were a sorry sight sitting by the dumpsters but i snagged them and planned to redo them with a booth move in deadline on the horizon i quickly got to work they turned out more distressed than i wanted them i wanted the chalk paint to be super smooth but the burnishing took off more paint than i wanted so i m going to stick with latex paint for my non distressed white looks my plan was to make farmhouse style seat covers for the ruined rattan but i came across a cute woven seat randomly online so i saved myself a little money and a ton of time by using jute webbing and totally replacing the seats i did this by hand so i labeled then as occasional chairs ladderbacks aren t the most comfortable seats so i could envision them on either side of a buffet to be used only when the table was full and extra seats were needed without further ado here is the before well partial during and the after look at those seats so cute here s how my booth looked in february the lavender was so popular it sold out in that first month i ve been contemplating opening a booth for several years so while it was overly stressful to be up and running in 3 weeks i m so pleased with how it came together and am excited for the months to come it s month to month so if things don t go well i may not continue but it was worth the risk just to try i love selling my creative work at 7 31 pm 1 comment labels diy furniture upcycled plastic free july observation 10 26 2016 i want to participate in plastic free july and make it a wholly plastic free month sometime they encourage disuse of single use plastics most of which i avoid anyway shopping bags straws plastic water bottles coffee cups lids for the month but i d like to go all the way eventually but as of right now my plastic usage mostly in the form of food packaging would be too overwhelming to try to just stop cold turkey my tired mama brain might implode maybe next year but for now it s one bite at a time so when slow your home awesome podcast suggested participating in it i took one week in july to observe the plastic use in my life and then the next week i kept track of every plastic thing i threw away trying to keep it as authentic as possible in doing this i hoped to find a few things i could cut out while i worked on a longer term solution for the more overwhelming things like all the food packaging zero waste is a highly respected lifestyle in my book but there have to be small steps to get there besides plastic the next biggest thing we throw in the garbage is food scraps which kills me especially since i ve researched composting i just need to find the right system for our small place and pull the trigger more on that to come my week of observation found that we trashed 16 plastic food wrappers 12 plastic container lids not recyclable in our area 1 styrofoam meat tray and plastic wrap 7 dental flossers 9 disposable diapers 8 misc items mailer plastic gift wrappers etc yes i kept track yes i know i m a nerd it may not seem like a ton even with the diapers it probably would only fill a small bag but it s a lot considering that it is possible to find and purchase meat and produce without plastic it just takes some doing the one single use thing i d like to do away with is the dental flossers i hate using the regular stuff that you wrap around your fingers and end up in a spitty gross mess the flossers are way more motivating but is there something i could use that doesn t require throwing out plastic plastic that btw that once made will never disappear from the earth bea johnson from zero waste home suggests using a gum stimulator ever seen the rubber thing on the end of a toothbrush i never really knew what they were for but i m considering getting one watching a youtube tutorial and seeing if by my next dental appointment it helps or hurts my teeth whatcha think also i ll be rid of the disposable diapers nighttime use once my son decides that sleeping through the night is a desirable thing to do but until then i m allowing myself that convenience for nighttime sanity you win some you lose some what do you think is reducing plastic consumption even something you think about would you ever experiment with a plastic free july next year next year at 4 43 pm no comments labels reduce simple living simplicity shunky monkey 1st birthday party 8 01 2016 our little guy turned one last saturday and we had a small family birthday party for him monkey style it included paper decorations paper monstera leaves kraft paper vines handmade party hats thrifted monkeys washed of course and banana desserts a couple of cards gifts some songs and laughter and our boy was ready for his afternoon nap birthday hat template monkey face m onstera leaf silhouette monkeys thrifted vine inspiration this pin at 10 10 am no comments labels birthday children diy side table makeover 7 28 2016 a little table was sitting by the dumpster one day it looks incredibly similar to the nightstand in our daughter s room that i found for 5 at the thrift store dad you still get the credit for painting it small but sturdy and solid wood this one had a really sad weird spray on finish that was obviously a diy fail ew so i thought the best read easiest and fastest thing to do was take a little stripper to the drip spots call it good and paint over everything well i used the stripper outside and i quickly found that wasn t the best idea for some reason the stripping solution immediately dried in the sun and was then worthless what was supposed to be a quick fix turned into several hours of applying more stripper this time in the basement realizing it wasn t taking all of the finish off and proceeding to strip and sand the entire rotten piece down it got pretty ugly but after a couple of painful moments she was ready to paint it took several weeks for me to find the time and energy to paint burnish and wax my son is quite the handful these days but i finally finished it last week and here is the after it s lightly distressed although i was attempting to not distress at all in the burnishing sanding process more of the paint came off than i wanted to because of all the edges to sand so i just went with it because i was planning to sell the piece anyway i used a furniture wax to seal it painted the stained drawer bottom and drilled a hole for the pretty new knob voila it sold tonight and now i have money to buy more paint to move on to my next furniture project my handmade hope chest at 9 08 pm 1 comment labels diy furniture summer simplicity 5 31 2016 the first of our meager crop a little tart and some are less than beautiful but all picked by these little sweet hands in daily excitement of these hidden red jewels love the simplicity of summer through our little girl s eyes at 3 04 pm no comments labels children family garden summer older posts home subscribe to posts atom keep in touch this blog hello there friend my name is lisa i m a wife and a mommy a daughter and a sister a friend i m silly and sarcastic contemplative sensitive and 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