Birthday Redo

What do you get a best friend of 30+ years for her birthday?? Yep, that's right a room redo! It all started with a chair that she didn't want to get rid of but didn't have the time or place for it in its current state. She gave it to me reluctantly and this is how it all started.

Her living room was a dark chocolate brown with amazing hard wood floors but you would never be able to see it in there because it was so DARK! Here are the before shots...

Trying to work with some of the things we already had to save some money, we decided to paint her white curtains with a fun yellow stripe. I taped and painted with Sherman Williams Flat house paint and they came out great.

Several inexpensive wall art ideas:  photo board, a goodwill frame and some chicken wire, old window frame from the rehab store along with a burlap wreath, a picture collage and a bird cage re proposed from her front porch. But the best of all... FREE pallet hand painted by Sasha...LOVE IT!!

We also stenciled the TV wall with a large wall stencil, she wants a flat screen TV along with an antique dresser to replace the big screen TV.

Wall color changed to a soft light gray. Pillows with grays, yellows and blues. I made all the pillows except the gray ruffled one.

The chair that started it all...Before

After

 

I loved working to put this all together for her, she is an amazing wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. I admire her for some many reason and she knows my story from the start! I am so blessed to call her my friend/sister. Happy Happy Birthday Sasha, I love you!!

Craft Day #2

Well the girls (Steph, Cori, Traci) and I are still going strong with our monthly craft day, not a lot to show this month but want to show you our finished product. We are all runners and needed a place to keep our medals/bibs besides a box in the office, so this is what we came up with....

Started with 5 primed MDF boards. Miss Julie Sifford got our 5th plaque

 A little stenciling, a few hooks and some distressing and our race plaque  

Still not 100% happy with the lanyards, thinking I might shorten them or just hang the medal?
Next up, pallet art!!