Hiding our Ugly TV Cutout

I really have no idea why in the world builders started putting these TV cutouts in homes.  When we bought our house 8 years ago we figured it would be alright.  However, the day we moved in and put our big honking tube TV in there we were less then impressed.  The TV was basically on the floor.  A few years ago my husband built the box to put our cable boxes and game systems in and that allowed our TV to sit up a little higher.  This year I was completely over this ugly box!

We decided to add shutters to hide the ugly box.  We are going to build shelves to store all our DVD's.   I wanted to hide the cable boxes but it would have been a royal pain to have to always open the doors to allow us to change the channel.

The shutters I had on had were a perfect height and just a little off on the width but nothing that a little frame work wouldn't fix.  I painted the shutters in ASCP Old White and sanded them to give them a distressed look.  Painting shutters is a lot of work but I absolutely love the way they turned out!

The box looks a lot better and has been Willow Creeked! :)  This room is becoming more us and I am finally starting to love this room.

More to come on this room in the next few days! My hubs bought me a new Mac Book Pro and it is taking time to get use to this new system! Uploading my pictures and figuring out where the heck they were took me about an hour.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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Duck Egg Family Room Dresser

So the last few weeks I have been working my tail off on our home, finally! We had our little boys birthday party and had family coming into town and I really wanted my house to be us. For the last few years we focused on selling our pieces to everyone else and not focusing on our home! I got tired of that. I wanted our home to reflect us and our style that we loved! So I have started in our family room. More pictures tomorrow. We are working on another project and I want to do a reveal when we are finished tomorrow! :) So this dresser was in our family room like this. It was ok but not really us.

 I decided to give it a couple coats in ASCP Duck Egg. My curtains have that color in them and I just needed a little bit of color for that room. I love how it turned out! When I distressed it showed the white underneath and a bit of the yellow, which I really really liked.  Before it had wooden knobs painted in pink.  I didn't get a picture of those beauties!  :)

See ya tomorrow for a reveal of our new family room! 

Saloon Door to Message Picture Board

Every time I see these doors it makes me think back to the western movies my grandma loves to watch. When you could hear their boots hitting the creaky wood floor and the cowboys deep voice. :) Anyways, I picked these up a while back at the thrift store and was just waiting for that ah ha moment!

I decided they were light enough to hang on a wall for a chalkboard. I just thought it needed something else besides just being a chalk board. So I added the small clothes so pictures or art work could be hung from it! Also, added a drawer pull to the message board to hold the chalk! I painted one side in Coco, wanted to go more neutral for the show this weekend. I distressed and then applied a coat of dark wax.  I just can't get enough of the color coco!  I even painted the drawer pull.

Isn't that lamp shade awesome??  More on that next week.  I love the saying on the chalk board, it is shortened from this amazing quote by Jim Valvano "To me, there are three things we all should do every day.  We should do this every day of our lives.  Number one is laugh.  You should laugh every day.  Number two is think.  You should spend some time in thought.  And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.  But think about it, if you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day.  That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."

I decided to paint the other one in Old White and distress it in the dark stain too.  That dark stain is really starting to grow on me.  I have used it so much my fingernails are coated in it too! :)  

Well I better go finish getting ready for our show this weekend.
Hope you guys have a fun creative weekend!

Spring Bench

This week grandma and I decided to hit the thrift store.  We haven't been in awhile because of her not feeling well.  :(  We saw this bench and we knew we could make it cute.  So into our cart it went!  It was just so drab and screaming for a springtime makeover!

I sent the hubs to get us some ASCP in Arles, Florence and Duck Egg.  He goes for us because I get it down by  it is down by his work which is really out of the way for me.  He is a keeper for sure. Anyways enough about my wonderful husband.  On to the paint.  Oh my my, let me tell you I love all three of them.  I couldn't put my paint brush down today.  I kept wanting to give makeovers!  These three colors make me so excited for spring and summer.   

I painted the bench in Arles, Duck Egg and Old White and gave it a coat of dark wax.  It is now ready for the Sugar Plum Bazaar that is this weekend!  Crossing fingers that our weather cooperates and snows just a lil bit rather than the 6-12" they are predicting .

What do you all think?  Does it make you excited for spring?  

Tomorrow I will be showing you more on the chalk board shutter shown in the picture above!  

Chic Hanging Chandelier

When I saw this chandelier I was in love.  The poor chandelier was sponge painted in a sage green and hunter green.  It also had really ugly light covers.  The light covers were so ugly I donated them right then and there!  This thing needed some TLC!

I love the glass stem and just knew with a little bit of paint it could really beautiful.  I gave it a coat of old white and used dark wax to give it a distressed look.  I had the hubby re-wire the chandy so whomever bought it could just plug it in.  I know in new homes they don't put lights in the bedrooms just give us a outlet that the light switch turns on.  So silly if you ask me!

What do you think?  I think it turned out pretty darn cute.  I love it hanging on the bird cage stand! I am now on the hunt for our house that is just a little smaller!    

Old White Antique Secretary

Last summer grandma and I went to a garage sale and we saw a antique secretary that had good bones and just needed some TLC. The guy who was selling it was so ready to get rid of it, he gave me a great deal! I left it in my garage for a month but then decided to get it painted and get it into our house to replace a smaller secretary I had.

I painted it with Annie Sloan Old White and painted the inside in country grey for a little bit of contrast.  Aren't the doors on this piece so pretty?  I love them!  I also added the scroll to the drop down which I think adds so much to this piece!

We are finally getting back into creative mode so you will be hearing lots more from me! 

Faux Deer Head

On Monday I dropped my little boy off at Kindergarten and headed out shopping. I was strolling through Target when I saw this. I started at it for about 5 minutes and then walked off and did some other shopping. I did some other shopping and thought I will regret not getting it when I get home.

 

I remembered I had some script scrapbook paper at home, that I could cover it in.  When I actually had some time to sit down I grabbed the modge podge and started cutting my paper to fit and went to town. The project took a couple hours and that is only because of the ears and the antlers. When I was all finished I took a black sharpie and colored in his eyes.

Here is the deer all finished!  I think it turned out neat!  It is so crazy what some of the stag heads are going for online.  I paid $30 for mine and I am happy with how it turned out. 

What do you think?  Was the $30 purchase a good choice?