I have had the pleasure of stumbling upon so many gorgeous before and after projects lately. These are only a handful of the most impressive I've seen lately. Enjoy!!
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Showing posts with label Before/After. Show all posts
Home Remodeling and the Half Way Reveal - Before/After
We decided to tackle the task of remodeling our house. The geniuses that we are, we thought it would be best to do this in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The whole thing started with the purchase of our wood floors. We got a killer deal online and couldn't pass it up. After we received the flooring, I instructed politely asked my husband to "please, please, please" install them ASAP. So, he did that following weekend and while he was busy doing that, I found it only made sense to go shopping for new living room furniture. That was the beginning of the end.
Here's what we have so far. We still have a long way to go.
Here's what we have so far. We still have a long way to go.
Living room
Stairs (Looking down to the landing)
These are pictures of the job halfway through. The stair skirt that you see on the sides of the stairs, will be painted white. The nose of the stairs will be stained to match the color of the wood floors.
Stairs (Looking down to the foyer)
Stair skirt will be white. Stair nose will be stained to match flooring.
Stairs (Looking up from the landing.)
The stair skirt and the rise on the stairs will be painted white. The nose of the stairs will be stained to match the wood floors
Hallway
And here's some more of what he have going on so far:
Mod Podged Brass Eagle - Before/After
hi! i'm lesley from freaking craft.
holy cow. i'm freaking thrilled to be guest-posting on Between U and Me. courtney has such an inspiring blog here.
i live in virginia with my super cute and wicked cool husband, whom i call boss (ps, that's what he calls me, too) and our incredibly bright and dramatic daughter, lady m. as my profession, i'm an actor and an educator. so i'm artistic at heart. i have this innate desire to create. all. the. time.
i discovered the world of crafting. and i have to admit,
i freaking love it.
i mean. love. it. there's something so rad about finding something that i've most likely purchased at a thrift store or a yardsale and then transforming it into something brilliant. i'm into all things vintage. eclectic. thrifty.and awesome.
but i digress...
so have you ever been to a yardsale or thrift store and saw something that spoke to you. i mean, not, "hi, lesley. how's it going." but something about the piece was just screaming, "seriously, i know i look lame, but if you take me home, i'm sure you can make me cool again."?
i have. it happens a lot.
with this guy...
Furniture Facelift with Chalk Paint - Before/After
Hi everyone! I am so excited to be here today…and so honored! I love Between U & Me…super fun and makes me feel oh so happy!
I am Janel and I blog over at Hating Martha. My blog is all about imperfection and the perfect life chaos and mistakes create. I have a lot of fun doing crafty things, homey stuff, cooking, parenting, and all kinds more craziness. Stop over some time and say hi…I promise to give you my best smile!
Today I wanted to show you a quick furniture facelift I did recently. It was done just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas guests to ooh and aah. Cause when you see her…you can’t help it!
Isn’t she a beauty? She cost me $35.00. No joke. I actually wanted to offer more because I felt so bad.
But, I sucked it up and walked out with her for cheap, cheap, cheap.
I have been seeing chalk paint all the time now that I have joined bloggy world. Bloggers seem to love it.
But, it was rather expensive. And I would need to order it. Too complicated.
So, I tried the homemade version.
This is the color I ended up with. It was in the oops paint. The whole gallon was $5. I used about 2 cups.
So…how much does that end up costing me? Like….75 cents? Ouch. Expensive…
Anyways, I was happy because I couldn’t decide if I wanted yellow or orange. Then I saw this in the oops and I said…yellow!
Another view of the color…with a bit different lighting (funny what a difference that makes!)
An Heirloom Classic Revamped - Before/After
Hi, BU&M readers! Today I want to introduce you to Angi from AKM Designs. She is this fantastic new blogger (since October) and she is just amazing! Her tutorials are way easy to understand, her projects are awesome, and her blog is just too cute for words! She has the kind of personality where you just feel like you've known her forever and you're super great friends from way back. Here is a little bit about her and her amazing blog:
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Hi-ya! My name is Angi McCarthy and I am a married thirty-something (we’ll just keep it at that) year old, working, mother of two amazing young men, keeper of two dogs, two fish and an abundant amount of "mommy can I please keep these" lizards, that spends all of her free time (yeah, right, who am I kidding, who has "free time") re-purposing, painting, decorating and when it all goes wrong, baking!
AKM Designs and Delights blog will be a collaboration of our family, our projects, missteps, brownie baking, cookie eating, wine guzzling, hair pulling, laughter filled, moments of sheer frustration, wanna kill each other, MAN DOESN'T THAT LOOK AWESOME!, journey to making this house our Home!
And now that you know me, I welcome you to... AKM designs and delights! I hope you find something you like!
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First of all I want to thank Courtney at Between U and Me for having me as a Guest Blogger! I am so honored to be here! I struggled with an idea on what I should post about today. After much speculation, I decided it was time to dive into some serious Chalk Painting! I was
We’ve had this cabinet for years. It has sat un-noticed, stuck in a dark corner forever filled with our DVDs. It was functional. That’s about all I could say about it. While I did like the looks of it, I wasn’t in love with it. I did love the little glass knob on the door; however. And the beadboard on the back and I REALLY loved the shape of it. But more than looks, I loved the history of this piece. You see, it belonged to Mr. AKM’s grandmother. If memory serves correct, his grandfather actually made it. I love the way it smells of old wood…not musty and gross…but rather more of history, time and use. Sometimes I would just run my hand over the top to feel the indentations and wonder how they got there. The glass on the front cracked during a move across the country. I went to have it replaced but they could not match the glass. The glass is the original glass from the early 1900’s. It’s not smooth like glass is now. You can see small ripples or waves in it. I love that about it so I opted to not replace it but instead stuck a piece of tape to hold it together. I am hoping to find someone that can repair the glass as opposed to replacing it someday.
So let’s get on with the pictures shall we…because we all know that is why you are really here! It’s ok…I can handle the truth. Here it is. The piece de resistance (say it with a French accent). Go ahead, try it again…piece de resistance.
Isn't it GOR-geous? I am seriously in love with this piece now. I mean like over-THA-top in LOVE! I know the lighting is a bit off...Daylight savings has seriously messed with my photo ops!
Master Bath Reveal - Before/After
Today I am spotlighting a fabulous new-ish blog that has a fresh new look and ideas that I know you will all love! Here is a little bit about Ian and Melissa over at Living Beautifully.
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We're Melissa and Ian and this is our blog.
We live in Canada with our adorable Goldendoodle Clover.
We started this blog in April of 2011: 5 months after we moved into our first real home together. The house we chose has become an endless project of updating, renovating, fixing and decorating and we love every minute of it.
This blog is our way to document and share this experience and inspire other young couples to do the same. You can have a fabulous house even on a budget. We hope our endless projects, DIY's, upcycled pieces, and knack for deal finding will inspire you!
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We actually finished the construction of this bathroom back in early September, but the room wasn't finished just yet. We wanted to completely finish it before we blogged about it...however we could barely afford to buy a toilet paper holder to put in there. Reno's are expensive people! So we waited and waited until we could afford to buy a few things...its still not completely finished, but we figured you might completely forget we had even done this, if we didn't blog about it soon!
Lets start at the beginning. Here is what we had to work with:
Ok where to begin. Pink floors. Sigh. We really had no way of working with these- we knew they had to go.
Secondly the vanity was about as tall as my lower thighs. If I was 4 feet this would not have been a problem. However for someone 5ft8, I was barely able to wash my face without sitting on the floor.
I don't know about you, but "beachy" mixed with "roman sconces" does NOT mix. LOVE the beach. Not such a fan of the mideaval flare....
Colours. Where to begin. This bathroom had red, orange, blue, pink grey and gold...and probably other colours mixed in there too somewhere. I am not a 'fall' colour person. Our ENTIRE house was fall colours when we moved in. Slowly...slowly we are changing that, but this bathroom looked a bit like a rainbow exploded in it...we dont do rainbow guts.
In all reality there were no words. We just knew we wanted to change the ENTIRE thing. So now that Ive told you all the things we hated about this bathroom, lets focus on the positives shall we?! The size of the room was great, so we had a lot of space to work with. Great light comes into this room, so that was another positive and we had space to play with- nothing was stopping us from changing the layout around...except cost that is!
I had been saving up tons of ideas and we pretty much knew what we wanted. A 'Spa' feel, light, bright colours, and a clean look. I love when things look clean. You know, like when you walk into a store and eveything is all neat, organized and bright looking? It just LOOKS clean. I love that. So thats what we were going for and I think we achieved that :)
Sooooo...here it is friends - our pride and joy!
Coffee Table Redo - Before/After
My husband built this coffee table from scrap wood he had about three years ago and it's been sitting in our garage giving me the stink eye ever since. Up until now, we have had no coffee table in the living room so our monsters would have more room to make a mess play. ;)
Well, it's due time and I have been wanting to wallpaper the top of the table for awhile now and so I decided to do just that! -- Kind of.
I started off by spray painting the whole thing, except for the top, with a high gloss white spray paint by Krylon. After drying, I found some high quality gift wrap I loved and then used this wonderful product from Decoart called Decou-page:
I used a foam brush to apply the Decou-page to the top of the table and carefully laid the paper (which I cut to fit the table just perfectly) on top, applied a few more coats on top of the paper to make it shiny and Voila! -- A beautiful and unique coffee table to fit our home just perfectly!
Well, it's due time and I have been wanting to wallpaper the top of the table for awhile now and so I decided to do just that! -- Kind of.
I started off by spray painting the whole thing, except for the top, with a high gloss white spray paint by Krylon. After drying, I found some high quality gift wrap I loved and then used this wonderful product from Decoart called Decou-page:
I used a foam brush to apply the Decou-page to the top of the table and carefully laid the paper (which I cut to fit the table just perfectly) on top, applied a few more coats on top of the paper to make it shiny and Voila! -- A beautiful and unique coffee table to fit our home just perfectly!
Hope you're having an awesome day!
Fall Decor - 2011 and Fall Wrapped Sink Set
** WARNING! LOTS OF PICTURES AHEAD**
This last week, I decided it was high time the Fall decorations make their appearance. I spent an entire day, getting the house prepared, dusting off things as I took them out of the boxes, then dusting off the house from all the dusty decor, sneezing a bit, and finally taking pictures of my completed work (at 8:30 at night). I have to say, though, that I am pretty proud and now ready to show you this year's Fall decorations. I'll show you what I had up last year compared to this year.
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Creative Memories Power Sort Box Organized MY Pictures!
Now, that I have spent the last 4 days with on again/ off again electricity, I have decided that slowly baking to death is not a good way to go. The inside of my house was literally 89 degrees at one point. I couldn't even have a cold glass of water from my fridge and every time I walked in to a room and tried to turn the light on, I became increasingly more upset. D works during the day and at nights, so I was also incredibly bored and the only thing I could do was play solitaire on my phone, but even that had to be rationed because I had no way of charging my phone if the battery died. It was like a mini natural disaster. Tuesday night, I decided to take the kids and go stay at my moms house and this decision was made just as the sun was going down. It was like I was packing up the house and leaving because of a flood or something.
I was like, "Move, move, move! Before it gets too dark outside! C'mon people! Let's go, go, go!"
We all lived, thank goodness, and I'm just so happy to be in my own house, AC cranked, TV on, time displayed on every digital clock in the house, surfing the web, and using every ounce of electricity I can. No, I'm only joking,... well, sorta. ;)
Another form of torture that I did not enjoy was not being able to do anything crafty. I have so many things on my list and absolutely zilch was created the past 4 days. (Sniffle)
Yesterday and today I did work on organizing my pictures, though. I bought this awesome Power Sort Box from Creative Memories and I transformed this:
Into this:
I organized everything by date and it makes me smile when I look at it. On the back of pictures I wrote the date, who is in the pix, and the event and I also put all the photo CD's, misc. memorabilia, greeting cards, and anything else all in this great sort box.
I know it's a bit late, but don't forget to link up to the Crazy Cute Link Party!
Click HERE to check out where I'm linking to and don't forget to join in on the fun! ;)
I was like, "Move, move, move! Before it gets too dark outside! C'mon people! Let's go, go, go!"
We all lived, thank goodness, and I'm just so happy to be in my own house, AC cranked, TV on, time displayed on every digital clock in the house, surfing the web, and using every ounce of electricity I can. No, I'm only joking,... well, sorta. ;)
Another form of torture that I did not enjoy was not being able to do anything crafty. I have so many things on my list and absolutely zilch was created the past 4 days. (Sniffle)
Yesterday and today I did work on organizing my pictures, though. I bought this awesome Power Sort Box from Creative Memories and I transformed this:
Into this:
I organized everything by date and it makes me smile when I look at it. On the back of pictures I wrote the date, who is in the pix, and the event and I also put all the photo CD's, misc. memorabilia, greeting cards, and anything else all in this great sort box.
I know it's a bit late, but don't forget to link up to the Crazy Cute Link Party!
Click HERE to check out where I'm linking to and don't forget to join in on the fun! ;)
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