A few weeks ago I stumbled across a blog I really like: Thrifty Decor Chick
I thought, “Wow! This is awesome. Here is a girl who thinks like I do…. re-purpose, re-use, re-finish, etc.” She loves Goodwill and yard sales, and she shares my love of spray paint. Little did I know, that there is an entire blog community of crafty, creative people (moms!) out there who think like me. Ohhh! I have found my people!
So Miss Thrifty Decor Chick had a “spray painting party.” Huh? Apparently you link to her website and share one of your spray paint projects. Well to show that I am more than just a smart-ass with a bunch of wacky anecdotes, I am going to try to post some of the projects I do on occasion.
I come to the party late (does that make me a party crasher?) and I offer up the dining room chairs I did for our cabin.
I snagged 6 of these ugly restaurant chairs off of craigslist for $5 each.
I spray painted them barn red and recovered them with a cow-hide print. (The paint looks brighter in the photo.) Total cost for all six of was $70. I hope to eventually replace the cow-hide print with the real thing, but can’t find pieces that are the size/pattern/coloring I want. (Or the price I want.) I am collecting the pieces slowly but surely, a la eBay.
Conversely, (as far as painting) another craigslist find for the cabin:
I removed a horrible, offensive sponge paint treatment from this $25 solid wood dresser. (…Scrape, scrape, scrape. Sand, sand, sand. Refinish, refinish, refinish….)
I added real cowhide pieces to the drawer fronts, covered the edges with furniture tacks and added cute pulls (also from eBay). Total cost for this dresser? About $50 and a lot of elbow grease. However, the pain was worth it when I saw a similar piece in one of those cutesy, rustic decor boutiques and it was going for more than $900. Yipes!
(And yes, the carpet at the cabin is hid-e-ous, but that’ll just have to wait. The bathroom still isn’t finished. From November!)
Great ideas and inspiration from this “party” and the projects women have posted. Maybe this will be a regular thing I can do. (When I’m done wrangling kids, doing laundry….)
WOW!!! I am sooo impressed!! I love that cowhide with the red! And that transformation on the dresser is incredible. Amazing work.
Love that cowhide with the red! Ingenious!
Oh my goodness. From horrible to absolutely fabulous! Great job!
LOVE THEM! But I always knew you were a crafty chick. 🙂
i think the “before” dresser is the ugliest dresser EVER!!
good job!!