Inspiration for Life and Home
A DIY Blanket Ladder is a great project for the beginning DIYer or builder. Let’s chat… Do you collect lovely blankets and throws like I do? And those great blanket ladders that have been showing up all over the place? I love them….but have you seen the price tags? $60-$100 for a 6 foot ladder?! Aaah! What if I told you… Read More
Faux Fur Footstool Facelift. Say that five times fast. 🙂 I’m going to tell you something because I’m sure I’m not the only one….sometimes I’ll hang on to an item (like this footstool) for years and years because I KNOW it could be really cute….the potential is there, I can SEE it…but then the item sits languishing in storage, abandoned… Read More
How to Recover Dining Room Chair Seats Sometimes a great set of dining room chairs get seats that are a little worn, a bit stained and just needs a fresh update. If the chair frames are in good condition, I’d encourage you to give this project a go. Simply recover the seats with fresh new fabric…let me show you how. A short… Read More
These stained glass windows in our dining room were some that I never really loved from the start… (Please pardon the poor photo – again – this was taken long before a blog was ever on my mind) …not to mention that wallpaper – but that’s another post altogether. At first I tried to tell myself that the stained glass… Read More
Painting a Refrigerator – wait, what?? 😉 Oh yes….let’s do this! When we moved into our house, we knew we’d want to replace the appliances – including the refrigerator – eventually. They worked, but they were really outdated – and the refrigerator just couldn’t hold all the food we needed it to hold for our family of six. We lived… Read More
A painted velvet chair? With LATEX paint? Yes, indeed! I found a chair at our local thrift store for just $10 and I loved the shape of it. I’m not much for knowing what style the chair is (mid-century? modern? I have no clue)- all I know is I loved the shape and what I thought it could become. Painted… Read More
