Ideas For My Mom

UPDATE:

My Mom wants built-ins...

I love the look in these two photos:
With the help of Ikea's design tool, I came up with three options.

My Mom wants to do some updating in her house, so I found her some great ideas to brighten up the place and bring it into the 21st century.

She wants to widen her baseboards. I found a great tutorial at House of Smiths:

Go HERE to see the tutorial.

By her front door, I though these two ideas would be cute:

I am trying to also get her to paint the kitchen and take down the wallpaper boarder... I thought this shelf with the board and batten underneath would add a much needed "POP" in the kitchen.
My Mom also loves this coat hanger...
Find the tutorial HERE.

We have also talked about hanging bead-board in the entry way, but because she has a "swamp cooler" she cant have it. Trust me, I know from first hand experience this is a bad idea. The bead-board will grow and expand if you have a swamp cooler. So I told her there is some paintable bead-board wallpaper. Lowes carries it for $15.48 a roll. Check it out HERE.

Hopefully she can pick a paint color soon, so we can get started on patching holes and sanding...

Wish her and us luck...

Featured!

Sorry for the long break. We have been getting a yard in and taking vacations...

Hopefully I will be posting some great projects soon!

Remember this awesome craft project from last fall?


Well, it has been featured at this site:

www.allfreeholidaycrafts.com

Go check it out!

click HERE to go to my featured project.

DIY Mirrored Nightstand

If you would have asked me a year ago if I wanted a mirrored out nightstand, I would have thought you were crazy. But, here I am today with proof that people can change...


I bought these bad boys at the DI for $7.00 a piece. Matching nightstands are hard to come by, so when I spotted these two, I knew with some paint and DIY vision these things could be awesome.


First things first, I took of the ugly cain and surrounding border off of the drawer front.


Next, I sanded, and primed the subjects.


Then my awesome husband painted them a cherry red color.

This next part is hard and takes patience and a steady hand. Since I wasn't blessed with either, I stood back and took pictures.

Get a mirror. We bought this one at Home Depot for $6.00. It was the perfect size for what we needed. When all was said and done, we ended up purchasing two mirrors. We broke the first one...


Rip the paper off of the back of the mirror and remove the frame. You also want to scrape the goo off.


Place the mirror on a towel on a flat surface.


Purchase a glass cutting kit at Home Depot. It was $13.00 (worth every penny!)


Mark your mirror with the pen where you want to make a cut. Then take the cutting wheel and follow the line you made. (Follow the directions on the back of the package)


At the other end of the cutting wheel is a ball. With this you hit the back of the mirror where you made the cut.


Hopefully you didn't hit too hard, because this is what happens...


This is what you should have. A nice piece of mirror.


Next, you need to mark where you want the knob to go. We chose the middle.

***I was lying about the last part. The next part is actually the hard part...



To complete the project, you need a drill with a glass/tile cutting bit. The key here, is to go a medium consistent speed with the drill. Matt drilled in the front, then turned it over once he could see a hole from the back, then drilled from the back. Back and forth, until the hole was big enough. Make sure to blow the dust away from the hole. Don't rush...


You should have a nice little hole like this...


Next, drill a hole in the drawer front. Make sure it matches up with the mirror.


After that, smear liquid nails on the drawer.


Place the mirror on the front of the drawer, line it up, make sure it is straight and clamp it down. You can put the knob on too if you want. Take it front me, DO NOT SCREW THE KNOB DOWN TIGHT, IT WILL BREAK THE MIRROR. Then your husband will throw his hands in the air and yell that he is done and go upstairs... Just Sayin'.

Now you have your very own mirrored nightstand!


I think I'm in love!

Laundry Room Makeover

UPDATE 11/16/11

You can now purchase the vinyl laundry symbols in my ETSY shop.

So what spurred this makeover? My dryer died... Which meant we had to get a new dryer, which meant we wanted a matching washer, which meant we wanted front loaders, which meant we needed something put put them on, which meant we needed to paint. Put all those together and you get a laundry room makeover!

Laundry Room before:

Laundry Room after a coat of paint:

Have you ever been to ana-white.com? You are missing out if you haven't. A while ago, I came upon a plan for a washer/dryer pedestal. Since I had the old school kind of washer/dryer, I mentally made a note of these said plans and moved on. Well, as it turns out, I needed these plans, so I found them again and showed my husband. He liked how it looked, so we went to Home Depot, bought the lumber (had them cut it- time saver!) and built the pedestal.

Painted it black and dis-stressed it.

Put it in place:

Cut some vinyl to put over the baskets:


Go HERE for the plans for the washer/dryer pedestal.

And decorated the room!

I rounded up some glass jars, and cut out some vinyl:

I also came across some cute laundry symbols on one of my favorite font sites. To tell you the truth, I didn't realize the laundry market had their own symbols. These are only a small number of what is out there. FYI, you can find these on your clothes tags...

The whole room! I love how it all came together...

A Few Projects

I am still alive... I know I haven't posted a project in awhile, but we have had a lot going on...

St. Patrick's Day has came and went, but I wanted to post what I made anyway. I got the word "shamrock" in wood letters from the Wood Connection, painted them and embellished them. I also found some shamrocks at some of my many DI trips. I sanded, stained, and glittered them. I also made some stands for them. Everything turned out cute!
I made individualized scripture bags for my Primary kids. They each got to pick out three of their favorite colors and some kind of design. Each was different and unique. It is really random what 7 year olds come up with...


I found the TOTE BAG TUTORIAL HERE.

Back in December, I joined a site where they do craft swaps with people around the country. For the Spring Time swap, I made these dragon-tails for my swap person's sons. They were easy and fun to make. She was kind enough to take a picture and post it on the Swaperoo blog.


Find the great tutorial for the DRAGON TAILS HERE.

I also made her these cute EASTER blocks.


Go HERE to see what else I sent her. Go HERE for more info on the Craft Swap.

I have a few other posts up my sleeves, but I got to finish the actual projects first.

Until then, enjoy this post and my many others... ;0)

CSN Winner!

Congratulations to Jenny. I emailed you the code you need to put in at check out!

Thanks to those who entered my giveaway!

Master Bedroom ideas+ CSN Giveaway

I want my master bedroom to be masterful. So far, I have painted the walls, put up some board and batten and made a new bed. But it still feels less than perfect. I still want to frame the mirrors, but the hubby refuses to frame them for me because he thinks he will lose a lot of valuable viewing area. So that is on hold. For some time now, we have been on the hunt for some awesome matching nightstands. As you can tell in the picture below, the nightstands do not match and are not even from the same time period.

So one night, while at my local thrift store haunt, I found two matching nightstands! I can't tell you how excited I was. Now, even as I type this, they are in my garage waiting to be primed, painted and a little surprise added to the drawer front. I'll post pictures once they are done...

So what is left for me to do? Accessorizing of course! I want some new bedding, a sitting area with nice chairs, wall decor and table lamps like this one found at CSN lighting.

One thing at a time...

Meanwhile, how about I do a GIVEAWAY for a $30 voucher to any CSN store?

All you have to do is leave your email address and a comment telling me which of my blog posts you like the best.

You have until Midnight MST on Friday, March 18, 2011 to enter. A winner will be chosen at random from all entries and announced here on this blog. I will contact the winner via email...

Good luck!!

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