80's laminate dresser makeover

my friend has had this dresser her whole life and she wanted to redo it. The picture she showed me of the style she wanted was a super distressed real wood dresser. When she showed me a picture of the dresser she wanted redone I asked her I could just buy her a new one that was real wood lol. But she was attached to hers so I did what I could. I am bummed, because I forgot to take a before picture and it was such a crazy transformation.

What I did to make it look like real distressed wood was to first paint it a wood color. Since when you took off the 80's gold handles and a couple of screws the drawers fronts came off I decided to use spray paint for the base. Once I had it painted dark brown I waxed it in areas where I wanted the second coat of paint to be removed.

The front has a transfer of a vintage bluish green paper and over the top I stenciled. We picked out new handles and there you go.

Full on surprise bedroom makeover

My friend has been wanting a new bedroom since college she said...the problem is that her husband is indesicive when it comes to furniture and paint. So I said let just go all out and redo the room a day when he is away. So that's what we did. Here's the before.

Once we picked out a few pieces of furniture and the coloring for the furniture, I sent her paint samples and links to bed spreads. Also I had her pick up some frames to go on two of the walls plus the Nightstands. 

So we chose Black and Tan for the furniture and went with NYPD blue for the walls. I also drew some custom lamp shades and sprayed the base of the lamp in black. Here's a before and after of the lamps. 

Once the wall was painted and the furniture was in there I took off to home goods where I got some chrome and black decor to finish the room off. That had to be my favorite part. Here's before and after of the wall with the TV. The desk was there basically just to hold the cable boxes and balance the room out. 

Simple stenciled sofa table

Here's a simple French style sofa table I painted in two tones of grey then added some French writing to the top using stencils.

Shabby chic coffee table with Angels and roses

so I decided to redo the coffee table we had been using because it was time for a change. I painted it with a beautiful grayish brown and a cream color I made myself....I couldn't seem to find an off white I liked because they all had too much white in them so I made Cahley's cream lol. I then distressed it and glued some blown up images of roses and cute little angels that remind me of my twins. I can just see one whispering to the other..."let's go make trouble" lol.

I had some issues getting the layout right when I was trying to glue one piece at a time so after the second try (and after having to sand off the top and paint again) I just poured the modge podge on and glue all at once letting the modge podge work as the sealant as well. 

Antique curio painted and distressed

It took me forever to find this piece. I was in search of something for our tiny bathroom downstairs that would look vintage, shabby chic.  I found this which was dark wood and not in too bad of shape. I painted it with a colored called sage grey, which is like a grayish green color, then distressed and waxed it.  The inside shelves had stains on them and I didn't want them painted so I found some old key scrapbooking paper and decoupaged that on the shelving.

I got some vintage bottles from a flea market and eBay to decorate the inside. They don't even have to be vintage bottles one of them is just a beer bottle. I sprayed them dark brown then a different color over the top. From there I just distressed them. I found it works best on bottles that have some sort of detail that sticks out. The flowers on top are my dried out bouquet from my wedding :) and the basket is from the goodwill that I just sprayed that same dark brown. 

Here's the before and after.

When my dad is ready to help me with the construction part, my plan is to do a distressed wood wainscoting on most of the wall and then some vintage floral wallpaper above that. Then to add some shabby chic decor here and there

Here I go again - French black and white coffee table

so I know I've been gone for a while. The twins are now 15 months and I have been able to get back to it. Here is a French coffee table I painted white and then used photo shop to enlarge the image and print it out in pieces.  After I had the lay out I put chalk on the back of the pages and traced on the image. Once I had the tracing on I drew the image onto the coffee table using a black paint pen. Since the image wasn't just straight black and white I had to make up some areas as I went but the final product came out great.

I also took the black paint pen and added detailing to the legs and sides. Then of course clear coated with the trusty polyurethane in gloss.

The before and the after