Three Dollar French Beauty

Oh yes people...be jealous! I got this puppy for THREE dollars. Solid wood, dovetail drawer...and a horrifically old finish.

I sanded off the finish on the top and stained it with Jacobean stain. I put 2 coats of a gray/blue DIY chalk paint and waxed it with a lightly tinted wax. Done and done...all in a day. I love it!!

And a huge congrats to the hubs who finished his first marathon today in under 4 hours!!

~Allison

Dining Room Makeover Reveal

Hello Strangers! Thank you so much for hanging in with me the past few weeks! With school starting and having surgery, it's been slow going in the furniture biz!

My dining room makeover started about 6 months ago. And it's been done for 2 months, but of course I just took pictures this week. I don't have any true before pictures of my previous dining room, but these pictures give you an idea. Pretty blah and boring...and not calming at all.

This is my uncle with my older 2 boys about 20 months ago.
This is the huge hutch that took up 1/3 of the room



First thing we did was paint the room. The yellow was pretty hideous. Yellow rooms certainly have their place, but it was not right in this room. Second, I was over the matchy furniture and I was VERY over the huge hutch. I put it on Craigs List along with the 4 side chairs. The chairs sold almost immediately. The buffet was a wanted item...but the top/hutch not so much. So I ended up selling the buffet to one person and giving away the top of the hutch. Darn thing was so heavy that I was glad to be rid of it.

I ordered 4 of these chairs to mix up the matchy furniture...on clearance at target.com!
 

I also got my parents old buffet to replace the beast...you can see that post here.

Before I get too wordy, here is the reveal!

From our entry: From the kitchen: Recovered in the most beautiful fabric EVER...in my opinion! The extra fabric was made into a table runner Drapes made from clearanced Target tablecloths...LOVE them! Bringing it all together
 Final view I'll do a cost breakdown in an upcoming entry! ~Allison

Client Coffee Table: Before and After

Howdy Peeps! Sorry for the little disappearing act...I'm recovering from surgery. Nothing too serious, I just finally decided it was time to evict the old uterus. She gave me 3 beautiful kids, but aside from that, she's given me hell. I don't miss her one bit ;)

 Two weeks ago, Shayne brought me this coffee table for a client. Fantastic bones, but a babysitter had spilled nail polish on it...and then tried to use nail polish remover to get take it off. No good. It could be another installment of "Crimes Against Furniture".

  Before: After heavy dry brushing, distressing and Jacobean stain as a glaze: I have a few fun projects as soon as I'm cleared to sand!

Happy Tuesday!
 ~Allison

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The Unpainted Dresser + I NEED a Hepplewhite Pull!

We recently got my 3 year old into a big boy bed. By default, we put him into a full size bed....and here's why.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. My grandfather was larger than life and also large. At 350 lbs, he and my grandma shared a full sized bed their entire life. I remember sleeping over at their house and being put to bed before the sun went down. My grandpa was always laying in this bed with his white t-shirt on, listening to the Minnesota Twins on the AM radio.

This bed belonged grandparents. I refinished it with my dad about 12 years ago...before I fell in love with redoing furniture. If I recall, my dad did about 80% of the work. He had the bed for awhile and we recently got it back just in time to put Dylan into a big boy bed.

Here it is in all of it's glory: Superhero sheets, bed rail and no box spring cover. I'm sure my grandma is rolling over in her grave, but I am thrilled to put it to good use!







So imagine my excitement when I found this at a garage sale last week!!



Guess what I paid!! Seriously...guess...I'll tell you at the end.

The top had major stains on it, so I stripped the top and refinished it in Cherry by Minwax. A perfect match.



Now it sits in Dylan's big boy room...a perfect match to my grandparent's bed!





Here's where you come in. The dresser is missing ONE pull. I'm thinking someone out there has an extra one lying round and wants to either swap pulls with me (I have a collection you can choose from) or I will pay you for one! Pleeeaase?



And want to know what I paid for her?



Thirty bucks.

You can hate me...but not for long, ok?

~Allison

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