Wall unit makeover, and my first Giveaway! Woooo!

I brought this baby a few months ago, and she has been taking up room/collecting dust in the garage ever since.


60's Gold Diamond patterned doors? No thanks!
So I removed the doors, hardware, puttied, sanded, primed, and painted her in Dulux Grey pail.
Then I used a $2.06 mistint tub of turquoise paint I scored, to add some extra color to the back ground, and here she is:

I replaced the old handles with cute lil silver new ones.

I kinda fell out of love with her last night, but after I threw in some decorations this afternoon, I am defiantly back, head over heals in love with her.

This is only some decorations I very quickly threw together, I still got some work to do:

What do you think?

Any chance you spotted the yellow Morrissey Sunglasses in there?

Here is a better close up:

Well, they are my give away! As part of the sunnie days promo, I was sent some AWESOME Banana and berry Nectar juice (yummooooo btw!) and two pairs of Morrissey sunglasses! One for me, and one for one of my readers!

Whats that I hear you thinking? What? you want to see them modeled on some shirtless Aussie men?

Ok.

You twisted my arm.

Only cos you asked so nicely.

Please meet, my brother Luke and Dad Michael:

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ok so there are three ways to enter:

1. Follow me on here, and comment that you are a follower.

2. Like me on facebook! ,comment to let me know.

3. Facebook, twitter or blog about the giveaway, and make a comment to let me know.

3 entries per person.

Comp ends 28th of February.

Winner will be chosen by random org.

Aussie's only. (sooooo sorry international followers, It's an Australian promo, I'll have a give away for everyone soon hopefully. Do you still love me? ok cool)

Good luck!

Upholstered chair

I brought this chair at a garage sale for $2 months ago. Apricot velvet... nice....

I took it apart and spray painted it in black gloss.

Then with my trusty staple gun I stuck on my new

uphostery fabric.

Then Viola I just stuck it all back together. Much better!

i am linking this up here and here

What would you do? (WWWD?) aka HEEELP!

Remember my beautiful, tranquil vision I had for our new room? Well, the floor is getting laid today, and then we are almost home free.....

Hubby and I started to share our visions of how we want it set up last night.

I was almost shaking with excitement to show him this picture! I thought I am so close to the dream becoming reality! Till he shared his vision.......

He wants to hang his beloved sports memorabilia:

And display his collection of toys from horror movies:

How Horrible is this?

Stop giggleing, close your mouth and lower those eye brows! I can see them from here!

I know its "our" house. But .....

Maybe that's how he feels about my stuff?

How does one meet in the middle with this?

Right now I am fighting every being in my body not to set fire to the whole thing!

HELP!

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

French black and white Dresser makeover

This weekend I finished of a dresser I have been meaning to make over for ages:


Was pretty ugly huh?

It was a bit hard to make over, the handles are really stuck down so I had to hand paint them and it took awhile longer then planned, but here are the after shots.

I didn't get to do the whole nice bring it inside and take shots of it against the white wall the accessories, because I did my back picking up the 10 litres of paint. I'm must be getting old! Haha.

I love it. I want to keep it, but it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the house, so its up for sale.

Linking here

Gold is OLD! Black is Back

Here are some of the projects I have been working on lately:
(Bargain mirror I found on ebay!)
Before:

After:

Lamp I found before:

After:

(shade from Target)

And a dresser my sister in law spotted on someones yard:

and using my new spray gun:

Sorry if you had to tilt your head to the side! Can't figure out how to change them around :)

Hope everyone is having a nice week!

I have a HEAP of other projects to get done this weekend!

Thanks for reading and following! It means so much to me :)

I am linking here, here and here

Spray Gun Makeovers

On the Weekend I got my spray gun up and working. I love it, but still have a few more things to figure out on it. Here are a few before and afters:

(My Dogs somehow get themselves into almost every before pic!)

Here is the coffee table finally made over:

And a little uuuuugly purple lamp that I brought for $4 and forgot to take before pictures, but trust me, it was BAD

I have a tonne more make overs that are almost done thanks to my handy new spray gun (even though it is pouring out oil...) So I should have them up in the next few days.

My house looks like such a mess at the moment, I need to sort it all out and re organise, big make overs at our house happening this week, the builders are coming to knock down a big load bearing brick wall this week woo hoo!! Pics coming soon :)

I'm linking to:

here , here , here , here and here, oh yeah and here here and here

Free Desk makeover!

So remember last week how I found this desk on the side of the road? (I was to scared to take a picture of it sitting by the curb! I was just rushing to get it on the ute and speed away)


Well last night, the make over was complete! I sanded, primed and painted the desk, and painted the existing knobs.
I used the left over paint from my last dresser makeover, So I didn't buy anything! It's a free makeover, baby!

The draws we covered in ink, so I painted the insides black, and lined them with some wrapping paper I have sitting around.

Free! Free! Free! Love it!

I'm linking it up at http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2010/09/piece-of-work-wednesday-link-party.html

http://www.thethriftyhome.com/2010/09/52nd-penny-pinching-party.html

Dresser makeover, Garage Sales and Roadkill rescue OH MY!

Here is my latest completed make over, I got this dresser off Ebay a few weeks ago:

She had seen better days, lots of scratches on the top and some of the handles where quite damaged.

So I spray painted some of the existing ones, and also brought some new ones. (Gotta love the Bargain centre around the corner from work, all handles $1!)

So I Sanded, Primed, and painted her with a off white mistint i found.

And here's the final product:

Notice those Blue vases in the left corner? They were one of the many Bargains I got on the weekend Garage Saleing! (Is Saleing even a word? ah well lets say it is) They were not that cute when I saw them...

This is how I found them, But I loved the shape and they were $5 for the both of them!

This baby was $3, I have painted her blue too, but have no picture. The bamboo place mats in the background where $2 for 8. I'm going to stencil them with a table runner I got for $1.

I also got 2 ugly lamps for $10, which I am kind of regretting now, I think they might be beyond help, so might just use the lamp wiring. And my last bargains where more picture frames for 50 cents each, and some old antique door locks for 50 cents that I'm sure will come in handy for something.

I was feeling a little sad that I didn't find any furniture to make over. But also relieved for my marriage's sake that I didn't spend any more money on furniture, so my hubby couldn't complain....

Then, around the corner from my house we spot a large desk sitting on someones nature strip. I pull over brakes screeching, and see there is a little cardboard signing leaning on it saying "FREE".

AHHHHHH!

I only parked one house away, but it took forever to get it in the back of the ute, this baby is solid wood, and built very well! But its mine now!

The next day I found out the top is way to wide to fit through any doors in my house, so I spent last night taking the top off (Easy done!) and sanding her. She will fit now, I will just have to put her back together in the study. Can't wait till she is finished, I'm still deciding to keep her plain and classic, or do something a bit different on the top, like a mural, or blackboard.

Any suggestions?

I'm posting these at

http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-like-evah-piece-of-work-wednesday.html

and

http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/

and http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/2010/09/frugal-friday_16.html