Liquor Cabinet Re-done

We purchased the Grevback from Ikea for our dining room as a liquor cabinet.  Painting a veneer is no fun.  I'm still worried about scuff marks, we will just have to be careful.  To get the finish we wanted we sanded, primed, under-painted in brown, top coat was dry brushed in green.  The inside we painted flat yellow over the primer.  Oh yes, and an Anthro knob to finish it off.  Makes me want to drink more...could be a problem.

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Quick Center Piece.

I found a bunch of Candle stick holders second hand (I'm sure that someone will hate me for leaving the matching one to each set)  I spray painted them a matching colour and viola!

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Getting into Holiday

So since its our first official Christmas in our home, (last year we were still living out of boxes)  I am insanely pumped for decorating.  I decided to make my own tree topper.  I bought the YRSNO decorating pack and went to town with a hot glue gun.

I took 8 of the heart ornaments and threaded them together alternating shades.  Then hot glued in between to keep them in place.

I used the stars and cones gluing them in between the hearts and the last heart in the centre.  On the back, I attached one of the silver bows so I could tie it to the tree (when we get one).  And done!

Making do with what you got.

Kathy needed a vignette over her couch in the condo.  Since we did the huge picture wall across from it, I wanted to break up the shapes.  I repainted a mirror she already had and and grouped it with some recycled items.

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What I put together:

Shelf- $5 goodwill, painted white.

Purple jar- $1 good will

Wood sculpture- $5 West Elm

Book- found at home, removed printed sleeve.

Frame $5 ikea (picture cut out of an Aritzia shopping bag, what?  they have good art)

Total cost for whole project $16

$10 find

So pretty self explanatory.  I found this ottoman second hand, I reupholstered it with a meter of Ikea fabric.  Done.  Also painted the old dresser beside it for a simple update.

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Safe stairs

I'm not going to lie.  I like bare wood stairs.  So much that I wont show you what the stairs looked without the carpet.   Its not hard to envision though.  But reality set in, with a teeny tot who will not long be climbing stairs, a dog who rolls down them every day, a broken leg seemed inevitable....I just didn't know who the first victim would be.  So with the help of many different parts we decided to do stair treads instead.  I'll just cheat and show to the previous owners crap stair runner.

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I took six ikea door mats, four which I cut into treads, hot gluing the raw edge to seal the carpet.  I took two to a carpet shop to get them to bind them together to make the runner for the landing.  The whole affair set me back $130.  Oh, and I got Steveo to do all the stapling, so I didn't even break a sweat.

Mini hack side table

I grabbed the Ikea lazy susan spinning tray and robbed the legs off and old vintage table.   I kept it on the patio which had made it pretty damaged on top but the legs still good.  I attached the legs to the under side allowing the table top to still spin. (spinning action not demoed in picture, dang!)

I later found this West Elm table, which looks pretty similar I think....Not bad.  Except my mini version cost $10, there classy version $140

http://www.westelm.com/products/dipped-side-table-g501/?pkey=ccoffee-side-tables#viewLargerHeroOverlay