Another Chair Makeover

Remember this chair? Well I made a friend for it.

I got the chair on the left for five dollars from a place in Kansas City called Bella Patina--the poor thing had no seat! So of course My Honeypie fixed it up and I covered it and ta-da! Two "matching" chairs. You know how awesome I am at taking before pictures, so of course, I didn't get one of the chair. But you can't be five bucks!

Reading Room in Progress

I've been so busy taking pictures for Hints Photos and putting it on a different blog, that I haven't had a chance to update this blog. So I'm finally getting on it!

Welcome to our Reading Room!

Anyway, I want to share an awesome idea My Honeypie had.

See this picture? There is a stupid breaker box in the middle of everything. Unsightly.

My Honeypie saw this mirror at a yard sale:

And had the brilliant idea to use it for this:

A ten dollar fix and no more nasty breaker box! He just hung it right up and we can take it down if we need to get into it. Brilliant!

and I painted our door my mom's favorite color!

{Also you can follow my Reading Room board on Pinterest!}

Ever Done This?

Photo challenge! Some of you have probably already heard about my latest project--one that does not involve the house! I'll let you read about it here: http://hintsphotos.blogspot.com/?view=classic

Oh, Hey

We are still here! We just don't have much to say in the way of our house--it's a little bit slow! but I did finally finish my bar stools that I bought a year ago. They were fiddy cents each so I swooped them. This is what they looked like before:

Ew. This is what they look like now!

WOOP!

Anyway, don't worry, I'll let you all know when we start being awesome again :)

Proof that I Work

We finally have some proof that I actually work on the house sometimes. See my foot?

Just kidding. There is a real picture, but I look really scary. I am not ashamed, kind of, so I will share.

Using vegetable oil and vinegar to bring the floor back to life again.

Ta-da! We had just gotten back from swimming at my parent's house. Holla!

Anyway, last night My Honeypie did a coat of poly on the floor. Check it out:

I Got an Old Chair: Makeover!

Yesterday, My Honeypie came home and handed me some dollars and I was like, "what's this for?" and he told me, "[insert inappropriate joke]."

Joke!

He just told me it was for me. Awwww. Spoiled!

You want to know what I did with that money? I went to the antique store in Hamilton, duh.

Oh, yes I did. and I bought a wooden chair for ten bucks. It looked like this:

Now it looks like this!

OMGOSH!! Is it wrong to totally love what you, yourself, just accomplished? Cuz I totally do. I looove it!

I love it so much that I risked getting ticks to give my chair a photo opportunity:

I decided this is for my craft room. Until then it shall remain...everywhere.

A Little More Color

One more painted ceiling down!

 This color is by far my favorite. Check it:

Before:

After:

Woop!

"True Turquoise."

I am so loving it.

At the suggestions of my little sister and sister-in-law, I am going to paint all of the ceilings in a color of the rainbow. Don't worry, some will still be white.

I decided to paint the entry way ceiling a green, and the craft room ceiling a light lavender.  Then our house will be a rainbow for real!

Also, my awesome brother-in-law came and helped My Honeypie do this:

OMGOSH!

We have kitchen cabinets!

I know this isn't typically how a piece like this is used...I'm pretty sure they are used on top of another set of cabinets, but it works this way for us. Plus, our kitchen is going to kind of be a mess of different cabinets as we piece the kitchen together. No matter! I'm painting them all anyway. Of course.

Paint all the things!!!

I Love Rainbows.

It is one of the things I have in common with my eleven (almost 12!) year old sister. I don't know what that says about me. Whatever.

I also love everything shabby chic.

Rainbow love+shabby chic love=contradiction.

The one thing I know about shabby chic-ness, is that it mostly involves ruffles, lace, grouping stuffs, and WHITE. Lots and lots of whites.

But I love rainbows.

So trying to figure out how to decorate my house has been a little bit of a problem.

I want shabby chic,
but I also want colors.

I LOVE THE RAINBOW!

Its like this battle going on constantly in my head.

Our room is pretty much all white and I love it, but I wanted something more...

To satisfy my dueling personalities, I decided on white walls downstairs and...

colored ceilings!

It's like a rainbow in our house!

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Yes, it is orange. "Ripe Tangerine" to be exact.

[caption id="attachment_1030" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Dining room...please excuse the blue tape.[/caption]



[caption id="attachment_1032" align="aligncenter" width="300"] from the kitchen looking into the dining room.[/caption]

We painted the ceiling "Bright Sunshine".

I've got sunshiii-eee-ine!

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That isn't all we've been doing...we also finished the floor in the second living room. Which means we can move everything out of living room number one (you will see pictures soooon!) so I can paint that ceiling and finish the floors. Stay tuned for an update on that in the next couple of days.

I'm Awesome.

Dude, no you're not--don't lie!

Anyway.

Contrary to what it may seem, I don't spend all my time on Facebook. I also spend all of my time on Pinterest.

Just kidding.

I don't do that either. I do this thing called "motherhood", and I also make my husband awesome.

Just kidding.

He's already awesome. I spend most of my day trying to be a little more awesome than usual.

Today my awesome-ness consisted of this:

 

in process

I used a tip I found on Pinterest (yeah) and used vegetable oil and vinegar to bring our dying floor back to life!

See:

 

you can see where I haven't done yet under the white thingy

 

baby!

Yay! I can actually walk on the floor barefoot without getting nasty dust on my feet!

Holla!

woop!

We got to sleep in our bedroom last night!! Yay! If you don't remember what it looked like before:

Before: 

We also added a small bathroom. It's not finished, but here is a preview:

(that is still sitting out in the yard waiting to be painted...oops)

So excited! Moving on...

So happy! Not completely finished, but hey. It's closer every day! Woop!

I know right?

The other day My Honeypie and I had a conversation that went something like this:

[In the kitchen]

Honeypie: You know, I guess you will have a lot of counter space. 

Me: I know. 

Honeypie: You could actually probably fit an island here too, if you wanted. 

Me: I know. 

Honeypie: But I already told you when you asked before that you didn't have room...

Me: I know...but I knew you were wrong so I was planning on having one anyway.  

:)

My goal this summer is to find something with which I can make an awesome island. There are two great things I have discovered about Missouri:

1. The-Day-Before-Trash-Pick-Up-Day

Why? People get rid of the most awesome junk!

2. Garage Sales.

Why? People get rid of the most awesome junk for cheap!

and then you're like, "all that really needs is some paint..." and BOOM. Beautiful

So all I need to do this summer is find something like this:

or this

or this:

and make it awesome!

Here Little Mousy...

With a Blue Little Window

and a blue corvette... I think my favorite color is blue, but this is only a recent discovery. I think. I'm not really sure. For the past couple of years when people are all like, "What's your favorite color?" I say, "blue...and yellow...and some greens...and Pink! and..." basically, I love a rainbow.

But I also love white. I actually knew a guy whose favorite color really was (Is?) white. huh.

Anyway. You already know I'm a paint snob, so we got some white that I like for our room.

We broke the Sabbath and painted it yesterday:

and today I painted the bathrooms:

upstairs 

downstairs 

Just so you know, I didn't forget to paint half the bathroom--we will be putting up bead board! and let me explain our sink situation: We got two pedestal sinks for free, but neither of them had the pedestals. We wanted storage, but pedestals don't allow for storage, so we improvised and bought this vanity for five bucks, and stuck the sink on top of it. Yes! Personally, I love it--I'm going to paint the vanity tomorrow. BLUE!