Future makeovers

Hello Lovely readers!

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while! The house renovations are taking up all my free time! But it's starting to look like we are getting somewhere!

It's been so hard to find some spare time to get some furniture make overs done! My house is an absolute mess at the moment, I am hoping over the Christmas break to get my new bargains some much needed made overs!

Here is a dresser I picked up off Ebay Sunday night.

Lots of potential!

Plus the drawers that were in that bargain bedroom set I got off ebay:

So I am going to be busy!

Also, for our new room (when Its finally done) I decided I wanted some matching wall units.

I found these twins on Ebay:

They are almost identical, except one has a draw with a cocktail cupboard in the middle of it. All the hardware has been removed, and its all sanded, now all i need is some time to paint!

I have chosen a gray paint, and fell in love with this color scheme when I saw this pic:

Grey paint, with torquise back wall. LOVE!

So hopefully, VERY soon I will have lots of "after" shots to show you for all my projects :)

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.

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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!

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Massive Renovations!

In our house, we have two back rooms that hardly get used, a formal dinning room, and a bar.

(Once again one of my dogs managed to make an apperence in a picture!)

So starting last week the builders came along, and removed the wall that's to the left of this pic.

This weekend was spent ripping up the old tiles and carpet.

It's a complete mess at the moment, but hubby will have a try of plastering over the bricks this weekend, Then the great paint off shall begin! I think I am going to do one feature wall, with a stencil from cutting edge but there are too many I love to pick just one... And after that we are laying timber floor boards. YAY! So sick of concrete dust and its only been a few days.

My head has been racing about what furniture layouts can be done, does anyone use those programs that have a blank room and you can try different combos on the computer?

Productive week so far

Had a crazy busy week, I have a tonne of makeovers to get done this weekend (I'm just going to ignore the oil coming out of the compressor and spray paint up a storm! What can possibly go wrong?) and BIG renovations are happening at my house this week.

We are removing a wall in between our formal dining room, and the bar. By "we" I mean a builder, But we are going to try do the rest ourselves! DIY plastering, flooring and painting. I have a million ideas in my head. I know there will be a wallpaper feature wall. I am constanly day dreaming of furniture combinations.

I lost my camera (AGAIN) but as soon as I find it, I will load some before pics up!

Also, I have pulled practically a robbery and got the greatest bargain, possibly in the history of the world. Some poor darling didn't know how to list things on eBay, and just made the heading "BEDROOM". What did I get you ask? Well for $20 I got, 2 wardrobes, a bed head, 2 side tables, a dresser with a mirror and a tall boy... Yeah I'm getting arrested by some form of government agency.

My new book came in the mail, I have only read a tiny bit, but I can already tell, "Design Rules, by Elaine Griffin" is about to become my bible.

She is the bee's knees.

EmTea Designs

I have finally come to a few decisions lately.

I want to get more and more into making over furniture. It's something I love! It would be a dream come true to do this for a job! Specially starting a family in the next year or two, its a job I can do from home with ease!

I want to do an Interior Design course.

I have come up with a business name, EmTea Designs.

My name is Emma Thomas, Emma Thomas Designs wasn't available, and after finding out a few more combinations were unavailable, while sipping my tea, and thinking about how much I LOVE tea, I found out the name EmTea Designs is avalible.

Do people call their business and blog names something different? I can't really sell things after explaining how I did it can you? Love to hear your thoughts :)

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 :)

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