Welcome to Fridays at Redoux!  I think we have a theme going here from last week’s party, and it is COLOR.  I think we are all ready for Spring and it is showing in our projects.

Before we get started, Merci, Merci, Merci for all the fabulous birthday wishes.  You all know how to make a girl feel so loved on her “day”!

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Do you have kids in your home, are they obsessed with making everything out of duct tape?  Maybe that is just my kids, but the clever girls at “At the Picket Fence”, Heather and Vanessa take it to a whole new level.  They trimmed out curtains in bright red duct tape, and it looks fantastic.  Duct tape wallets, purses, hair bows and anything that can hold anything with duct tape has been created at my home, but never in a million years would I think to put it on the curtains.  It looks fantastique!

Do you have Mason Jars in your home?  I think we all have some semblance of this jar.  My neighbor is moving and was so sweet to give me a giant box filled with them.  I have been mulling over ideas of what to do with them that was new and different.  Ugly Duckling Transformations showed me just what to do, spray paint them in a bright, cheery color!

I love Butcher block counters, and I have them in my home on my island.  They were not a cheap option when we put them in, but I was shocked to see that the price has literally doubled in the last 8 years.  PHJ designs has an amazing tutorial on how to get the same look of butcher block counter tops, using real wood, for only a fraction of the cost.  You have to see it to believe it.

You know how I hate to throw out good furniture, or even buy new furniture if I can repurpose something I already have on hand.  I am so in love with what Cottage in the Oaks did to solve a buffet storage problem.  She and her husband built basic storage shelves and topped it with a gorgeous piece of wood, which they stained.  Then her husband hung a long piece of copper piping and they added a skirt to hid all the storage.  She shows a wonderful tutorial on how she did it all, the end result is stunning, and you won’t believe how much stuff she has hiding in there!

My next feature is something completely different.  All My Musings shared tassels she made from really, everyday objects.  Things I would never think to make a tassel from, bolts, copper wire, etc.  You have to see the whole post to understand how truly inspired she is!

This next feature caught me totally by surprise, I have mixed feelings on  “Ombre” (Sorry Ombre lovers!!), but sometimes I see something I love, where the colors blend into each other, which I do adore.

Nine Red did a beautiful job on this simple chair, and the tutorial is so detailed on how to achieve this look that you would think you were sitting right there with him to create your own Ombre Masterpiece.

You know how much I love a good dumpster dive.  I often find drawers without homes, cabinet doors missing their main pieces, and I love to find ideas of what to do with all these lonely orphans.  Leon Design came up with a beautiful solution.  She is making a series of “Nautical themed” boxes from old drawers, this is one of my favorites:

Last but not least, I had just received my latest Pottery Barn Catalog, you know, our “idea bible”?  I had torn out a page to try to recreate this lovely lime green and white finish they had on a side chest.  Not minutes later I saw this link up from The Crevistons who had already done it!  I think I like hers even more than the original!

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