Archive for July, 2011

Parade of Homes Stenciled Half Bath

I’ve been very busy decorating this SLC 2011 Parade Home! I have a few last minute touches and it will be FINISHED! It’s been a stressful few months but the end result is going to be SO worth it. I’ll post pictures soon of the entire house but here is the half bath that I stenciled. I choose this very daring light green color. I loved the color but the bathroom was a little TOO bright. This area of the house doesn’t have a lot of natural light so when you turned the bathroom light on it GLOWED. It definitely needed something else. Here are some before and after pics….

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The stencil really toned down the green and gave the bathroom a finished look! I LOVE it and I’m dying to stencil something in my own house :) Check back soon for pictures of the entire house!

I forgot to tell you where I found the stencil. WHOOPS! I used the fan flower stencil from Olive Leaf Stencils. I LOVED it and would definitely use one of their stencils again. Their shipping rocked; it was here within 3 days!

 

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Lap Desk Redo

I found this padded lap desk at the DI for $5.00. I really needed a serving tray and boy oh boy did it live up to its potential !
 I removed that hideous padding and primed and painted the whole thing

I love painting things cream when they were originally black. The distressed look is more dramatic; it’s my favorite!

I mod podged a yellow damask paper on the inside and covered the back with a light grey. I LOVE how it turned out!

Do you recognize my bargains?

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Nautical Decor

Remember my sneak peak …. Here is one of the finished projects! It all began with this cute little guy! I picked him up at Home Goods for $19.99.

I’m decorating on a tight budget and really needed something else for the walls. I found these awesome frames at a yard sale for $1.00 a piece! I brainstormed for a while and came up with the starfish idea. The starfish are also from Home Goods = $9.99 for a whole bag.


I  covered some durable card board with a piece of burlap and hot glued the starfish to it. It’s so simple but it’s exactly what I needed! I cant wait to reveal the pictures from my BIG PROJECT!

*FYI… to get rid of the stinky ocean smell your starfish may have…. just soak them in a bucket of diluted bleach water for a few hours and set them out in the sun to dry. It brightened the colors a little too.

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Antique Finds

A nurse at work told me about a little antique store in town that is trying to get rid of some stuff. I stopped by on my home from work and I was in HEAVEN! She had a lot of awesome antiques. She had a few old steamer trunks that I REALLY REALLY wanted but the price was a bit to high for me. They were perfect and my living room would have gladly welcomed one as a new coffee table. Maybe next time.


That little scale is my absolute favorite find! It’s the cutest turquoise blue color and has the perfect vintage touch.

She had a TON of the old Ball bottles. You cant see their true blue perfection in the picture but they are awesome. I think the little basket in the back is an old vegetable basket.

Two washboards and an old oil lamp. That lamp is awesome also. It has a rustic brown look that I just love.

I’m not so sure this is an antique but I’ve been searching for a globe to put in my son’s airplane room. I didn’t want the usual blue globe…. I wanted something with that little vintage touch. Its perfect and exactly what I was looking for!

The best part…… all of these AWESOME antique finds only cost me

$40.00

I’m in Love!

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