Happy Trashy Tuesday! You won't believe what I found this past week! The coolest Dumpster Dive Free Upholstered Chair! If you are a regular here, you know how much I love FREE FURNITURE. And you know how hard it is for me to pass on some good Free Furniture. I have been exercising a bit of self control, because really, what good are all those potential Trash to Treasure pieces if I can't exactly give them a proper DIY Furniture Makeover? If I have too much Free Furniture floating around my garage. I usually do a Free Furniture Give away when it's been weeks since I could get my car in the garage. I recently did one of these purges. It's a great way for my whole neighborhood ...
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Dresser wanting the Layered Paint Look
It may be hot outside where you are, but the best dressed dressers, and furniture are all asking for the Layered Look! Are you hearing what your furniture is saying? The cool kids are all doing this technique and I know you are cool ;) If you think your furniture isn't talking to you, then you are not listening closely enough. I put off painting projects all the time. I think I actually LIKE having a garage full of furniture and keeping my car outside when it is over 100, just so I can sweat bullets, ruin my hair and be generally miserable every time I get in my car. Not to mention all the furniture that yells at me and mumbles complaints every time I walk past all of them. I ...
How to Makeover Old French Provincial Dresser
How to Makeover Old French Provincial Dresser *This post contains affiliate links, all of the opinions are definitely 100% my own ;) You recognize this Dresser right? It was part of your bedroom set circa 1970's? I was not lucky enough to have this Bedroom set as a kid, (I had beautiful furniture that my mom bought and refinished-where I got my inspiration). But! I have been lucky enough to find TONS of it for sale or even better, for FREE over the past 14 years that I have been painting furniture. Here are a few of the pieces I have transformed over the years. Several of them were FREE finds! Dressers Dressed in Glaze Snooty French Girls Dumped Dresser Don't be a ...
Upcycle a Bookshelf to a Rolling Cart
Upcycle a Book Shelf to a Rolling Cart. Happy Trashy Tuesday! I don't have a new project to share with you today, BUT, I do have some good Dumpster Finds. And they were my favorite kind this week. Not one, but two Dumpster Finds. The first IS a rolling cart already. Complete with 2 drawers, towel hangers on each side. Sadly, someone took all the sides and inside out. Very strange. Usually the drawers break before everything else. These drawers are made well, not just glued but have Dove Tail Construction. I have plenty of old Fence Boards and Scrap wood lying around. I am sure I will be able to find the right reclaimed wood for this upcycled cart. Onto Rolling piece of ...
How to Make a Door Chalkboard from a bunch of junk
How to Make a Door Chalkboard from a bunch of Junk (This post was originally written in 2012, but the instructions remain the same, paint brand has changed) Do you remember this thing I pulled out of le garbage? My client had texted me the night before I found this, asking if I could make a "door" sized chalkboard for her kitchen. The next morning, doing my rounds of looking behind businesses for their good "trash". I saw this lying on top of a bunch of boxes. It was there for moi! I knew with a little reinforcing and some foam core board, it would be perfect. If you are not so lucky to find this frame in the trash, you can easily duplicate this. Here is what you ...
How to Paint a Denim Look and CeCe Paint Giveaway!
How to Paint a Denim Look and CeCe Paint Giveaway! Update! I only use Debi's Design Diary DIY Paint since publishing this post. DIY Paint is 100% Natural, Clay Based, which makes it different from every other chalk paint product. It is perfectly smooth, the colors are beautiful and cover well, even their whites. It paints like liquid Velvet. You won't believe how good a paint brush and a can of paint can feel. It is ahmazing stuff. Check my side bar if you want to know more. This is part one of a two part post. I have had the same Country Style Coffee Table for many years. The original finish was still in good condition, but not our style any more. When CeCe Caldwell's released ...
Decorating With CeCe Caldwells
Decorating with CeCe Caldwell's Update! I only use Debi's Design Diary DIY Paint since publishing this post. DIY Paint is 100% Natural, Clay Based, which makes it different from every other chalk paint product. It is perfectly smooth, the colors are beautiful and cover well, even their whites. It paints like liquid Velvet. You won't believe how good a paint brush and a can of paint can feel. It is ahmazing stuff. Check my side bar if you want to know more. It's no secret I have been a die hard believer, yes BELIEVER in CeCe Caldwell's 100% Natural Chalk + Mineral paints and products for THREE PLUS years now, since they first went national. I have created a lot of ...
Best CeCe Caldwells Projects at Redouxinteriors
Best CeCe Caldwell's Projects at Redouxinteriors Update! I only use Debi's Design Diary DIY Paint since publishing this post. DIY Paint is 100% Natural, Clay Based, which makes it different from every other chalk paint product. It is perfectly smooth, the colors are beautiful and cover well, even their whites. It paints like liquid Velvet. You won't believe how good a paint brush and a can of paint can feel. It is ahmazing stuff. Check my side bar if you want to know more. Happy New Year! This is the BIG day I have been waiting for. I have been working with CeCe Caldwell's 100% Natural Paints and products for 4 years now. In January 2011, someone linked a cute painted ...
Do You Have Joy? Get Some With This Sign!
Do You Have Joy? Get Some With This Sign! This post originally aired last December 2013. Got Joy? If you had this sign, you would definitely have joy. The sign was so easy to make, you could have joy in your home in no time! And there is still time to even make one before Christmas (if you are the type that enjoys decorating until the day of!) I was inspired by the JOY sign made by Chapter 37 that I featured at a recent link party. I followed the same tutorial, please check her blog, it was perfect. I happen to have A LOT of extra cupboard doors around here. They are my number one dumpster/curbside shopping splurge. I have even become an expert at freeing doors of their ...
How to Use CeCe Caldwells Paint Plus Glaze
How to use CeCe Caldwell's Paint Plus Glaze Update! I only use Debi's Design Diary DIY Paint since publishing this post. DIY Paint is 100% Natural, Clay Based, which makes it different from every other chalk paint product. It is perfectly smooth, the colors are beautiful and cover well, even their whites. It paints like liquid Velvet. You won't believe how good a paint brush and a can of paint can feel. It is ahmazing stuff. Check my side bar if you want to know more. Recently I had the opportunity to head to Arizona to hang out with a few of my friends from CeCe Caldwell's paints. One thing you should know about CeCe Caldwell's paints. Not only are they 100% natural ...
Le French Maid and Le Assistant
Le French Maid and Le Assistant Or- Easy Black and White Dresser and Nightstand! I bought these pieces a few months ago from a Craig's list add. I got such a deal on all of it! I dub these pieces Le French Maid and her assistant. This is the lovely dresser before, the finish is circa 1978 Lovey nightstand, that is not real wood on the top, it actually peels off...... After rummaging through my brain for a while, the dresser looked to me as if it were wearing a skirt. Since both piece are oh so French looking, I decided to take a "French Maid" point of view. (The real thing people, not the costumes you may have seen at your local Halloween Super Store ...