Garage Sale find!

I went garage sale-ing on Friday and found lots of fun things (including mario kart wii for $20!) anyway I found these and he gave them to me for .25 total! YAY! they are up in the kids bathroom with the sail boat theme and its LOVE.

It was fun to find all kinds of things for the house!

Book Shelf Fix

I have been dreaming of painting these bookshelves

white since the day I brought them into my house. I finally did it! Although I made a mistake and will have to repaint some of the fronts white (as you can see. I mixed a grey blue to line the insides and I think I love them. We will see though. Anyway it should have been a quick 2 day fix but it turned
into a week because I needed to make the one on the right more stable so I bought a piece of wood and painted it and stuck it on the back. The different is AMAZING! It is so sturdy now. These are both particle board so they needed some zinnser oil based with a roller.

Then they needed some semigloss white and my special mixed color for the insides. I love them but I think they look funny with the wall color. They are staying though!

I really need to fix those shelf fronts that are blue! The shelf on the left holds the printer and tower too. I reorganized it and now I feel much more organized when it comes to the office area. So glad its done!

Miriam

Damask Picnic Bench

This was a really easy project! I picked this up for $5 while shopping DI with my sister in Utah. I am sure she wondered what the heck I was doing.

I know my husband wondered what the heck I was doing because he asked me "What the heck is this" while loading it up.

I started by ripping off the drawer liner stick stuff. Then washed it all off. Then I primed the legs with Zinser oil based primer while priming a few other things. I just used a cheap paint brush for this because I didn't mind the strokes showing on the legs, it was a picnic bench after all.

Then I mixed a grey paint that I liked and painted it again with just one coat.

Then I got some 3 inch foam from Joannes and cut it to size Then I took some thinner foam (I actually used a twin foam padding from walmart, it was cheaper and bigger) to round off the edges and got out the staple gun and stabled it all underneath. As you can see here.

This was a difficult part in the project because my husband has a foam phobia! But then I moved on and looked for fabric to cover it with. This is my least favorite part about projects because I am so indecisive. So I bought two different fabrics from Hancock that were in the designer cut area both for $3.oo a yard. A yard was plenty. I probably could have used 3/4ths then I stapled it all underneath the bench like I would with a dinning room chair. This was a little time consuming because of the curve in the bench (you don't want any loose bits or ruffles). But it only took me one episode of Castle to finish it.

And its done!

I wanted this for the really tiny mudroom area that comes in from the garage and is right outside of the laundry room. I tried many things and they were too bulky so this is PERFECT! Now I want to get some stencil up on the walls and put some hooks up so it actually looks like a miniature mudroom. One step at a time though. I love it!

Miriam