Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Striped Drapes

I'm sure everyone has seen the striped brown drapes from the nester here. She had said that the fabric had discontinued. I had done some research online on how to make these drapes and found several how they were making them. So used craft paint and others used wall paint. So I headed to Walmart and was looking around to see what I could use and not cost me that much since I already had the white curtains I made a few years ago out of twin flat sheets. Well I came across the paint section where the missed colored paints are and found this perfect brown color to use. I grabbed it up and went home to get started. It turned out great. I love how it changed the room. Also I moved my curtain rods up higher to the ceiling.

Here's a before:


and the after:






This is how I did mine:
Layed my curtain out
taped off every 7in and I got 7 brown stripes.
Let it dry, you might need to do more than one coat I didn't I my first one but did on some of the others that needed it.





I love how they turned out!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Gallery Wall

I'm been searching on Pinterest for a gallery wall around my tv in my living room. I came across some that I liked but, last night I sat down at the kitchen table and drew a picture of what I wanted on my wall around my tv. I had everything on hand already, so this project costed me nothing to do, just the fun time putting it together.  Here's what I came up with.

Before:



I changed it up a bit from the drawing. Which I love much better.

After:





I'm very pleased with the results!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

New Light

Gosh I can't believe I haven't been on my blog posting in a long time. Pinterest has taken over me HA! I wanted to show our new light my DH and I made to go over our kitchen sink. We took down the cabinets that were hanging up there before so we could make room for the new light. We love how it turned out. Let me know what you think.
Before:




                                                           After:




It has opened up the space alot and we are enjoying our new light!
Tutorial on how we made this you can go HERE and HERE!