Fall Sign and Front Porch

Another Pinterest project here...Thats seems to be what makes up most of my projects these days. I see something darling on Pinterest and then I hack it for myself.

Here's the Pin that inspired this project.

And here's my version:

Cedar Pickets from Lowe's nailed to some scrap wood on the back.

(All of my photos were taken with my phone, I apologize)

 

 Painted base coat white, then slapped on some green in a few spots.

Then squirted on some brown craft paint straight from the bottle and just smoothed it out, then covered with a tan'ish cream color on the top. 

(I started paint the tan color over the brown before I got that picture with the brown on, So the corner is what it looked like before the tan color)

 

Used my Silhouette to cut out vinyl stencils for the words.

Adhering the stencil was AWFUL. 

The wood was to "dirty" so it was sliding around everywhere but I survived.

*All my paint I had on hand, I did not buy anything but the wood*

 Added to my porch!

I can't wait to add my pumpkins and gourds!

See how I made my wreath HERE

Also, Check me out on Pinterest 

You can Follow my Autumn/Fall Ideas Board

or my All Hallows Eve Board (since that is right around the corner)

I've totally decorated for fall inside my house! 

How about you?

Ombre Dresser Project

So I'm sure just about everyone saw THIS pin on Pinterest.

But the SECOND I saw it I hopped on my local classified ads website and looked for that dresser. I got super lucky and found one almost exactly like the one from Pinterest.

Here's the distorted blobby picture from the website.

I went to Sherwin Williams and picked a color sample and it had all the gradients on the sample. So I just said "I want all 6 of these colors in your sample sizes" 

I used a latex spray primer from Sherwin Williams because I was told that the old stain might bleed through if I used a water based primer.

I put the dresser in my guest bedroom down in the basement.

This is my bed from when I was a kid. I got new bedding and I think it looks so inviting!

My family's vintage pillowcases.

(excuse the poor lighting in these photos, it is in a basement that they were taken.)

{LOVE} Beadboard Sign

I went to Hobby Lobby and bought these cardboard letters.

Stuck push pins in the back of the letters to raise it off of the counter so I could paint them with out it sticking.

I had bought Martha Stewart paints at Michaels for this project.

The color palette I chose.

 A look at the 'chippy' paint job. I used the soap trick to distress this paint project.

The finished product with the letters glued on with E6000 glue.

Can you see that the letters were painted in a 'pearl' finish paint. I love that look. A little sparkle in the paint.

I chose to put the sign on my entryway table.

Office Paint

Last week the shelves and walls were painted in the office.

I thought I picked out a gray color for the wall but it turns out it was blue, well blue gray. But, we really like it and we think it looks really nice in that room, especially against the white shelves.

The drawers and doors still need to be installed.

Can lighting at the end of this week. 

Then hopefully we can break out all the books and fill up those shelves :)

 

You can read more about this project Here and Here and Here

Change of Direction

OK, Some of you may know that I am re-doing my main bathroom on the main floor.

I had these colors picked out and had already started painting the walls.

Valspar Paradise Blue

 Valspar Ebb Tide

and I wanted to buy this shower curtain:

But the budget was not letting me buy the shower curtain but I loved the ruffle look, so I found a cheaper one at Urban Outfitters that looks like this:

So, I bought it!

It came in the mail and I took it out and it totally clashed with the original blue colors that I had already started painting.

Well, I wanted that shower curtain MORE than I wanted those particular blue walls, So I headed off to Lowes today(with shower curtain in my hand) to buy different paint to match the shower curtain.

I came up with:

Valspar Reflection Pool 

(This internet picture is not true to the color on the wall/sample card, it's the exact color of one of the ruffles of the shower curtain)

 Valspar Paradise Green 

(closer to true color than the other swatch but still a bit off, again, matches one of the ruffles)

So, I started my painting project over.

 Ugg! 

I can't wait for it to be finished to show you pictures!

Picket Fence

I was at a local store here in SLC called Home Again and I saw this section of a picket fence for sale. They were originally asking $75 dollars for it! Can you believe that...$75 Bucks! Anyway, it was marked down to $25 so I bought it to put in my flower bed and add some interest to it. It was bright yellow which I didn't want but I knew I could just paint it.

I went to Home Depot today and bought a $1 miss-tint, it worked out good enough.

We had fun painting the fence. Once the paint went on I kind of liked the yellow showing through, it made it look 'weathered'. so we were pretty sloppy and didn't try to cover every inch.

Chalkboard Paint Projects

Pinterest has lots of fun ideas.

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