Snazzy Stool

I found this little stool at a local second hand store… Chad was less than impressed with my find, but I assured him that it would be super duper cute once I was done with it. He also questioned it’s usefulness in our home. I assured him it would be used. (and if not at least it would be cute, but I didn’t say that part out loud)

Here are the before and afters.




and here are the kids showing it’s usefulness :)







Does the ribbon look dumb on it? I wanted to hide my less than stellar job of stapling the fabric on. Frankly, I was being lazy, wait, i mean, pressed for time, so I just put the fabric right over top of the old, rather than doing it the “right” way and pulling the old stuff off first.

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i {heart} burlap

yep, i do.


i got this *lovely* lamp at a local 2nd hand shop for free. (yay!) isn't the gold just super? (gag)




and this is my DIY fix for it :)








isn't she pretty?



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kitchen before and afters

so here are a few before and afters of the kitchen. the least amount of work went into this room for now, therefore it can actually be pictured :) other rooms will come eventually. basically the only things we did to this room is paint the pukey color (okay it wasn't bad, it just wasn't in my style) we painted all the way around the upper cabinets whereas they had left it the same color as the window trim and beadboard backsplash in that area and there was an abrupt kind of awkward place where the pukey color stopped. we painted the walls Tupelo Tree from Sherwin Williams. We also put in our own island (a sweet IKEA deal!) since they took their's with. i like ours better as it is shaped better for the space and the open shelving on the bottom makes the whole room feel more open (even though i haven't figured out a use for the shelves yet as little hands will be constantly taking everything off those shelves.) Any ideas? lastly i made a little curtain for the computer area to hide the computery looking stuff. i still would like to get some sleek storage for the top shelf so that looks uniform as well (maybe my next trip to ikea!)

sorry about the picture quality... there is very little natural light in this room and i haven't been able to figure out how to get the best pictures of it. the before pictures are taken from the day we moved in (before anything came in!) the previous owners had a TON of stuff on the counters and above the cabinets. I am not sure I like how it is decorated right now, but that will have to be a work in progress. the cd player and cd's kinda clutter up the counter... any suggestions for that too?