When I painted my dining room several years ago, I also added some vinyl lettering:

Translation: “Life is too short to drink bad wine”
I’m going through the house making repairs from last year’s plumbing debacle, and since I have to replace a chunk of the wall in here I’m repainting the whole room.
Problem – I [...]

Tags: Erika...with a K, Extreme Personal Measures, Fab Friday Favorites, Love From My Kitchen, vinyl lettering
Filed under: Fab Friday Favorites, Furniture, recipes

I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday!
We had all kinds of awesome projects in the last Fab Friday blog party, but here are a few of my favorites:
Suesan from Frou Frugal gave an excellent, very detailed tutorial on repairing veneer. She started with this:

And turned it into this:

I know I have passed up dozens of [...]

Tags: Friday Favorites, Frou Frugal, Less Than Perfect Life of Bliss, Sunny's Life in Rehab
Filed under: Fab Friday Favorites, Furniture, Holiday decorations

I just finished working on a pair of very cool end tables for the living room at the cabin.
I turned this:

Into this:

I am THRILLED with how awesome they came out!
You can get all the details at my other blog – The Cabin Chronicles.

Tags: Furniture, mosaic tile
Filed under: DIY Projects, Furniture

Do you ever get so anxious to get started on a project that you forget to take a “before” picture?
…even though you have a DIY blog?
…even though you’ve been thinking, “Boy, this project will make aFANTASTIC blog post!”?
Yeah, me too…..sigh….
This would have been a really dramatic before and after transformation. But it did end up [...]

Tags: Furniture, jute
Filed under: DIY Projects, Furniture

Am I the only one who finds themselves doing DIY projects in the wee hours of the morning before work or the middle of the night?
At 5am this morning I was glazing a dresser:

I need serious help…..or maybe an intervention…

Tags: Furniture, glaze
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A couple of months ago I ran across this little dresser/nightstand at the thrift store:

I was keeping my eyes open for something like this….I had a pair of matching nightstands in my bedroom that I like a lot, but on one side of the bed I had a little too much room – and this [...]

Tags: dresser, spray paint
Filed under: DIY Projects, Frugal Finds & Thrifty Goodies, Furniture