Wire Wrapped Cabinet Pull

I am slowly remodeling the studio bathroom, on a budget of course. And the cabinet handle that was there was pretty ugly. Pained several times and the paint was chipping. So I set out to find the perfect cabinet pull that was fun and colorful. Being my picky self I couldn't settle on one that I liked both in looks and price so instead of going out and buying one I decided to make the existing one pretty. Now I could of easily just spray painted it and bam it would have been done in under 2 minutes. But I wanted something unique so I set out to wire wrap the handle in some pretty green beads! It was incredibly easy! I first sanded down the handle (more like my husband did it for me) and then I started wrapping! I thought it would go with the purple bathroom. Not to mention this project cost me nothing since I already had all the materials on hand. (the color is "grape juice" by Valspar)

From Dark to Light...

The last few weeks my kitchen has been upside down while I have been painting it. And let me tell you I am glad I'm done painting it!! It by no means is finished, but the most time consuming part is done at least. The before and after is amazing to me. I knew going from a dark color on the cabinets to white was going to be a huge change, but I never imagained the end result being SO much better. I love it!

 

Both of these pictures where taken at about the same time of day, can you tell how much brighter the kitchen is whith the cabinets painted white!? It's awesome!

 

The kitchen is no where near "finished" but for now i'm one happy girl :)

Painted End Table

After we put in the new couch we had no room for this little end table and it was destined to go to the yard sale pile. Until I had a great idea! I could use it in my office! You see we moved our old couch into the office, so now I have a nice seating area when I want to laptop away. But it always felt like it needed something in the little sitting area...I could use that end table as a coffee table in there!! It's small, it could work! So I sanded it down and took the hardware off and spray painted the table white, the drawer pull pewter, and the inside  of the drawer blue!!

Plant Stand Makeover!

I've been looking for a while something to display my tutus from, and then at a yardsale I found it! The perfect thing!! A plant stand!! All I had to do was just spray paint it and voila!! Perfecto!!

Bookshelf/Jewelry Holder Make-Over

I wanted to paint this small bookshelf and and nick nack shelf I had gotten from my mother-in-law to match the bedroom, which is all white (our house is from like the 60's or something so we have bright green carpet and icky faux wood panelling). But I didn't want it all to feel stark and hospital-y so i kinda distressed the wood a bit idk I kinda like it.

The nick-nack shelf was really cute but I didn't know what to use it for really until I came up with the perfect use for it...a jewelry holder. It was perfect, the wire meshy stuff on the door could hold the dangly earing I used often and behind the door I could put all of my bracelets and my rings(on an awesome sterling silver swan ring holder) and in the little drawers I could put all of my other earings and on the shelves i could put some of my cute pins. And on top of it you can kinda see my mirror creation on top (so I can put my earings in safely!), I had this two small mirrors and didn't know where to put them really so I put two hinges on the back so that they could stay open in a V shape and voila! a perfect mirror thing to go above my jewelry holder.

Step Stool Make-Over

Here's the thing, I'm short (5'2 on a good day) so I have step stools all over the place, well I have this one that is all metal and quite ugly (it was in the house when we moved in) so today I finally got up off my ass and decided that it was time for it to get a make-over. So I sanded it down and primed it with some spray paint primer and then I decided to try out this new can of spray paint I reacently got at Walmart, Brushed Metallic from Krylon in nickel. I think it looks way better than before, what do you think?!

After I sanded it down ...

Finished!