Home Tour

I like sewing a little bit and making neck wraps to help others with their pain but y'all what I really enjoy creating is home decor I like to see what I can come up with on a budget creating out of what I have around the house and paint old things to give them a new look.

Today I really just want to paint. I have a chair I need to paint I have a bunch of wooden crates just sitting in the garage waiting for something to be done with them. It is just too cold though I tried to to paint an expansion to my desk not too long ago when we had some somewhat warm weather but the paint just didn't stick and dry well so I will probably have to repaint it once it warms up. Oh and some black picture frames that need color! hmm well anyways since I can't paint yet today I will share some pictures of some projects done around my home sort of like a little home tour of my home. I will post links for the projects that I have written a post about.

Upon Walking into my front door you will find this Ladder Coat Rack: Ladder Coat Rack



Go on into the living room you will find what truly is a living space it is a fairly large room and every corner has been used to try to make it cute and functional as well as make up for the lack of space in the rest of the house.

When we cleaned out our garage this vintage bike found a new home as decor in the living room and the basket serves as a place to store a couple of blankets.



This frame started out just plain wood colored the inside with the burlap was taped off then spray painted the Letter S fit perfectly inside:


We have a little music fan at our houses so we have the music wall with his instruments. The keyboard was on a stand that came with it the drums just sitting on some crates. With this arrangement though you could see all the wires going everywhere and it is just didn't look great so I came up with this rearranging the creates and putting this board I had across it. The board could be a little longer to but it is what I had to work with for now and it does look better than the unsightly mess it was before.



Behind the couch is a couch table re purposed from an old Ironing board See Post: Ironing board re purpose




I had to find a home for this special bench since the front entry is too small it found it's home by in the living by the back door. My dad made this bench for our front porch in the first house we bought and it has moved with us to each house since. The quilt being used as the padding my grandmother made for me when I was a little girl. The bike pillow was a gift from my husband and the other pillow I made the covers for. The removable washable pillow cover turtorial can be found here: How to make a trow pillow



The corner by the back door is the kid's book/ play corner


And Lastly in the living room is my desk/work area The original desk makeover post can be found here: Desk Makeover





We will move now into the dining room and kitchen

I just love my colorful dinning room In here I have the bike wheel light the colorful table and chairs, and a farmhouse style coffee sign.



The old window meal plan sign. I got this old window from my aunt and with some cleaning up and some spray paint it became the meal plan board:



The kitchen was a big job to update the old cabinets but with paint and new nobs they look much better
Kitchen

Before:



After:



Remember the ladder from the entryway? Well here is the other half of it being used as a picture frame shelf in the hallwall

The ladder shelf



I plan on painting the black frames bright colors. Should I paint the ladder too or leave it natural?

Then we have the kid's art boards they need to be cleaned off it is hard to get rid of all the cute stuff they have made but here is where I display some of it.


And in the master bedroom is the bedside shelves

I did not have a table to put here so using some wood that was from some old shelves left at the house I made these bedside table/shelves. I painted them using the same technique as the desk makeover but I painted the blue base color before applying the vasoline


That is all the projects completed for now other than simply painting some of the walls that were once just white. Hope you enjoyed the little home tour watch for more projects when it is warm enough to paint again.

*** Update 4/23/2019 I found some wood someone was giving away and one was long enough for my piano stand so I have updated it so it has a top that is long enough! The board was just a little too long so I had to have the hubby cut it to the size and I painted it and now am excited to have a top that is actually the right size. Still debating if I should keep the crates natural or paint them bright fun colors what do you think?