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I haven’t written about the on-going master bedroom redo lately. Mostly because summer is here and the living is easy at Casa Kimba. OK. Not exactly easy. Just really, really busy, which leaves precious little time for spray painting. The HORRORS! I have a couple of other projects in the works, but before anything else, [...]
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I’ve been on the hunt for a small cabinet for our master bathroom for months and months. We needed a little extra storage for towels and toiletries. Is there such a thing as too much storage in the bathroom? I think not. My patience paid off when I found this shapely, but raggedy, cabinet at [...]
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I keep these 3 things in my purse at all times: 1. A small notebook 2. A pen 3. A small tape measure In the notebook, I keep track of all the things that I’m watching for as I shop the thrift stores and garage sales. When you’re thrifting, you need to be prepared to [...]
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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you’ve probably seen this stool before. It was a thrift store find that I fancied up with bright yellow paint and some damask fabric. It’s been used in several different spots in my house over the last 1-1/2 years. But I had grown weary of [...]
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My family room is smiling at me today. Why? Because my glorious door coffee table is done and it’s perfect for this room. A couple of month’s ago, my dear, talented, gorgeous friend, Layla from The Lettered Cottage, did a design consultation on my family room. This coffee table creation was her recommendation because I [...]
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Yesterday, I promised a video that would show the steps I used when I tried Caromal Colors Distressed for Success kit on my Goodwill dresser. Today, you are going to learn why I am a blogger and not a vlogger. I hope you’ll still be my friend after watching me wreck up this video. Do [...]
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I’ve mentioned before, that my dining room is a bit of a catch-all room, since I do much of my creating in there. I finally decided that I needed some dedicated storage for my paints, papers, glues and beads. A few months ago, I scored a dated old dresser at the Goodwill for a glorious [...]
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I’ve mentioned before, that my dining room is a bit of a catch-all room, since I do much of my creating in there. I finally decided that I needed some dedicated storage for my paints, papers, glues and beads. A few months ago, I scored a dated old dresser at the Goodwill for a glorious [...]
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I’m not quite done sharing pictures from my vacation shopping trip that ended at Beach House Chic. If you missed yesterday’s post, click here to see more. Stop. The. World. She took two sets of bi-fold doors, attached a wooden shelf with wood supports and created a bar height counter. I don’t need a bar [...]
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Vacation means 2 things to me…beach and shopping. This year it was more browsing than buying, but it was still fun. My cousin-in-law (Hi Kathy!!!) and I share a love for home decorating projects, so we spent some time browsing around the beach community where we vacationed. During our hunt, we stumbled on an outdoor [...]
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Taking a little break today…This article was originally published in June of ’08. It’s one of my favorite furniture rehab projects. Enjoy! I found this old gossip/telephone bench at the fleatique store and wanted to try something a little different. I loved how this old piece looked and it was really sturdy. The detailing on [...]
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I’ve been wanting to makeover my kitchen stools for ages and I finally got around to it this weekend. Here’s the before…There was nothing wrong with them. They are sturdy Target stools that I got on clearance when we were living in our old house. They matched our cabinets remarkably well and saved me from [...]
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It’s no secret that I’m always on the lookout for a furniture bargain that I can rehab and turn into something that I love. Whenever I post about a furniture rehab project like this one, this one or this one, I get comments from people saying that they just can’t see the potential in a [...]
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I’ve wanted a real headboard for my older son’s bedroom for a couple of years, but just haven’t been able to justify the expense. That doesn’t stop me from oogling and drooling over those beautiful pieces of furniture in the Pottery Barn catalogue. When I saw this old headboard tucked in the corner of the [...]
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my dresser makeoverI {heart} painted wood furnture. That’s no secret. Here are 10 tips if you want to give it a shot. Do what YOU like. I’m not telling you to paint grandma’s priceless armoire, but what good does it do to live with a piece of furniture that you don’t like just because someone [...]
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The weather is finally warming a bit up and my thoughts have turned to the boatload of rehab projects that I have planned for spring. All winter, I have been collecting bits and pieces of bedraggled and beaten furniture that I know will be beautiful again with some paint, fabric and love. Since garage sale [...]
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You all left such sweet comments about my painted kitchen table the other day. {blush} And a bunch of you asked questions about how I did it, so here’s a quick run-down. Unfortunately, this was done in my PBD (pre-blogging days) so I don’t have pictures. We sanded down all of the flat surfaces (tabletop, [...]
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Some of you asked to see pictures of my kitchen table and chairs when I showed you the bench that I rehabbed for the kitchen. So here you go… In it’s younger days, it was the typical yellow pine, butcher block kitchen table. Very sturdy and practical but not my style anymore. I don’t have [...]
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I’ve been wanting to add some extra seating to our kitchen table for a while and when I saw an ugly old padded bench at the thrift store a few months ago, I knew that it was the perfect size and scale to work with my kitchen table. It’s been a while since I’ve rehabbed [...]
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