Super Seventies Chandelier Makeover

Here it is! The super seventies chandelier is done. This was a chandelier that was going to be thrown away during a home remodel. I had a few ideas, and eventually went with paying homage to it's 1970's roots by redoing it in retro fabric and colors.  It lights up really nicely.  I yet again forgot to take a before picture, but I have a picture of it in pieces before hand. You can really see the improvement! For sale here.

On a vintage note, Ross and I came across this really pretty serving tray and thought it would be a great addition to the shop. Click here to see it in the shop.

Have a wonderful week, the weather is great!

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Shells and Cheese

Hello! Hope everyone had a graet 4th of July weekend. Here's an update on what I've been up to lately. I found these book ends in a thrift store and it looked like someone just left them in their garage for years. Tarnished and it looked like a child with a sharpie attacked them.  I wish I took a picture,oh well.  I had the idea that they would look great in a really high gloss solid color, for a retro-modern look. After debating about the colors for a week or so, I decided to just go for golden yellow.  I love this color! After it dried it immediately reminded me of that nuclear velveeta ooze on those shells and cheese - I can't help but love that stuff!  So these are up for sale in the shop.

In other news, I recently got my hands on this really great 1970's console stereo (thank you sarah!).  I can't wait to get my hands on it. It needs new curtains, but the stereo itself works, the speakers and great (with amazing bass!) and it has auxilary ports to hook up an ipod or mp3 player.  We had a phone hooked up to it streaming Pandora, when a phone call came in, and we actually took the call on the stereo! Pretty funny. I think I found my new love, console stereos....

A long time ago I did a few chandelier make overs, and I really liked that. Here is the teal "candle"-lier I did. I'm onto another one.  Again, I thought I took an assembled picture of it before hand, but I can't find it. So here are it's parts, just so I can show you the progress!

So, I hope I can explain this, the wooden pieces connect to that metal center. The metal center has the lights on it, and the 6 wooden pieces that attach hold 6 semi circular glass panels with a brownish tint. I'm going completely 70's with the chandelier.  While working on that one, Sarah sent me a few more chandeliers that were being tossed out, so I went and grabbed them. I'll have updates on it soon to show you more, but think 1980's octagonal & rectangular lamps... we've GOT to find a way to bring these "beauties" into our modern decor. Any ideas?  Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

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Teal Hexagon Accent Table

Just finished up this teal accent table. Originally brown, I rescued it from the depths of a used furniture shop and brought it home. I originally intended to do solid teal, but when it came time to finish up I couldn't resist giving it some distress.

If you'd like to acheive this look in your projects, here's how I did it. First was of course sanding and cleaning, then I disassembled it. What's nice is that this easily comes apart without any tools, so it packs flat. Then I gave the 3 pieces a dash of primer, and a few coats of teal. I sun "cooked" them because this particular latex paint takes a little longer to not be "tacky" (sticky).  For the distress, I used a medium grade sandpaper first to start the wear and tear. I like to do all the edges, then choose a few focal points. After, I use a fine grade sandpaper to polish up the rough spots, and take the overall sheen off the piece so it doesn't look freshly painted. This is pretty easy with lightweight sandpaper because it takes some effort to do some damage, so you can safely rub over the entire project.  Last I took the back of the hammer and gave the piece some history in logical places.

This item is for sale in the shop if you are interested.  If you decide to do your own piece, I'd love to see pictures! I have some before pictures of this piece that I will post later, right now they are locked away in a hard drive. Oh well!

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Forgiveness please!

Wow! What a break! Well, sorry everyone for not posting in so long, things went a little crazy with work and home life at the end of the school year there. Parties to be thrown and kitchens to be painted. Oh that's right, I didn't mention that... well here are some shots of the kitchen before and after, I'll take better ones soon. Sorry about the messes, it's a rough job to paint a kitchen!

We chose to go with bright colors. Since we rent, we couldnt' replace the cabinets, so we just gave them a quick makover. The bottom ones need another couple coats, but I'd say for just adding paint and new handles this is pretty good!

I promise to post soon about the chalkboard pig adventure, as I got an order for 28 in... it's like a litle blackboard piggy bank army....  have a great day!

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Spring colors!

I just finished adding 3 very bright and colorful items to the shop. Two in Spa blue, and my favorite in lime green. First, here they are:

The lime green tray started out completely different. I had originally done a tray in black with flowers in multiple shades of teal across the top. Well, for one reason or another that I won't get into, I wasn't happy. and I decided to go a different route, and now I love it. I want to make more of these.  I really love the color, it's a key lime base with a kelly green wash over the top to catch the flowers edges and all the cracks. It's available in the shop. Also new in the shop is the two spa blue (or baby blue, in my opinion) shelves. One if a frame that is set 4 inches from the wall, so you can place items on the back to have a sort of 3-d framed image. The other is an accent shelf that I picked up, that needed a little character. Check it all out in the shop!

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