Deck Chair Re-do

OOPS! 

I up and added the wrong post to Kim's Blockg Party at Savvy Southern Style, Elements Interiors , No Minimalist Here and SAS Interiors. Here is what you should have seen.

My BAD!

I purchased these sling style deck chairs from an outdoor flea market held at the "old" Cowboys stadium 30 years ago.

Before:
Note the burn hole from a campfire (whew! that was close).

Picture loader not cooperating this morning . . .getting frustrated . . . this was the oly way! ARGHHHHHHHHHH

Click on the image below to take you to Picassa for the whole kitten-kaboodle!

Deck chairs Linking to: Transformation Thursday @ Shabby Chic Cottage  Furniture Feature Friday @ Miss Mustard Seed Masterpiece Monday @ Boogieboard Cottage

From wimpy to WOW!

Sometimes just adding something small, can totally transform something into

AMAZING

By taking a free remnant of cowhide and 150 (or so) nail heads, this secretary lid went up a notch!

from yuck

to YUM

I couldn't be happier with the outcome!

Thank you for visiting!

Linking to:

Masterpiece Monday @ Boogieboard Cottage

Metamorphosis Monday @ Between Naps on the Porch

Amaze Me Monday @ Dittle Dattle

Tuesdays Treasures @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Wow us Wednesday's @ Savvy Southern Style 

Transformation Thursday @ Shabby Chic Cottage 

Furniture Feature Friday @ Miss Mustard Seed

 

Cardboard Creation

Just wanted to re-visit the headboard I created from an empty cardboard refrigerator box.

Inspiration: Ballard Designs

My version:

 

For the link to the tutorial, click here.

Linking to:
Masterpiece Monday @ Boogieboard Cottage
Amaze Me Monday @ Dittle Dattle

Oh so Ugly! Getting Better

Day two of the project leaves us with a much improved carcass chair frame. With the old, ugly, cat stained (read: smelly) upholstery gone, it was time to get down to business.

 

ahh.....better

Chair leg = cat chew toy

new paint finish (still in process)

Thanks to Kim at Savvy Southern Style

for the wonderful tutorial for creating this SPECTACULAR

paint treatment.

Linking up at:
Wow us Wednesday with Kim over at Savvy Southern Style
Whassup Wednesday? with Kara @ Elements Interiors
and:
Metamorphosis Monday @ Between Naps on the Porch
Amaze-Me Monday @ Dittle Dattle
Motivate Me Monday @ Keeping it Simple

Headboard Tutorial (as promised)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and now for that tutorial I promised.
First, you acquire a refrigerator box (the cardboard is double thick). Also, you will need to have a picture of the headboard (I snagged mine from the Ballard Designs website). Print it out as large as you can. After printing it out, you will need to use a ruler and pencil to create a grid on the picture aka:Elementary Art Style.

I knew I wanted the overall width to be 40” so I scaled it so each half would be 20”. Draw a grid on one side of the box to match the overall with you are seeking (sorry I didn’t get pictures of that).
Once you have the design scaled up on the refrigerator box side, use a handy dandy jig saw to cut it out. (Remember the cardboard is extra thick so this is the easiest way).

Add ”posts” (I used 4 thicknesses to add depth) I then decided I wanted dimension on the edges, so I cut strips the width of the yardstick, and hot glued them to the scrolled edge. Then use spray “Kilz” to seal cardboard and make a white background.

Now it’s time to get messy . . . Disassemble the romance novel of you choice (I chose Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice”). Mix good old white glue 70/30 with water and decoupage to novel pages to the edges first followed by the flat surfaces.

When completely covered in pages from the novel, I used watered down, left-over wall paint to “age” the pages. Then I sealed all with clearcoat spray.

Attach this: (museum mount style picture hanger)

using this:

and the final result is an “Anthropology” Style”, “Ballard Design Knock-off” headboard that any young college-aged girl will go Ga-ga over.
 
Thanks for stopping by.

 

Linking up to:

Amaze Me Monday  at Dittle Dattle

Metamorphosis Monday  at Between Naps on the Porch

Make it 4 Monday at Cottage Instincts

Tuesdays Treasures At My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Transormation Thursdays at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Be still my heart . . .

Ahhh... it pays to be kind and help loved-ones move. Because when you do, you run into someone selling this beauty for (drum roll here) 

$20.00!

love the details, the patina and even the hairline crack down the entire front of the door!

Ispiration to Perspiration

I have always loved silver leafed furniture, but didn't like the sticker-shock from seeing the prices being asked.

Paying huge prices is NEVER my style.

[Brissi vases]

You see it sitting there . . .against the back wall . . . all shiny . . .BLING . . . I had to have one. Then I found these . . 

and the finish on this Ballard Designs lamp . . .YUMMO

 Then there was this . . .

BINGO

I had this little dressing table, bought about 8 years ago from ABC Distributing for about $50.

 

You can just see it in the corner :)

With a little of these two friends . . .

 I got this! I LOVE it and what's better, my young-adult daughter LOVES it! What say you?

 

(ignore the lamp cord, wall color and stuff in general  . . . room is still in transition)

please go over and join these sites:

Furniture Feature Friday at Miss Mustard Seeds

The Shabby Nest

Finding Fabulous
Metamorphosis Monday also check out Sailing Simply and other wonderful transformations at Between Naps on the Porch!

and a sneak peek at the finished room . . .Tee Hee . . .

ack . . . there's that ugly lamp cord again :)