What a week! Did you have higher temps than normal? I’ve been adjusting to caring for Niski and working on selling my car (I think it was 100 degrees in my car when I was cleaning/vacuuming it – not fun!) and buying a new-to-me used one so I didn’t accomplish much in the way of DIY. 🙁 But I do have something I want to share with you very soon that involves DIY. I am SO excited!
However, Meg sent me an email with her latest DIY projects and you’re going to love what she’s done! Here is her letter!
There she was. Buried. Waiting for me to take her home and put her back together.
I added a back, shelves, lighting a lot of paint, and rescued the original hardware. And now I have a baking cabinet. We are very happy together.
I also brought home the little coffee table that was leaning (dying) up against it, and brought it back to life. I reinforced it with new supports (from my scrap pile) underneath. Is there anything better than spray paint? $2.
And I scored a pair of these chairs for $50.
$50 on fabric.
$20 on electric staple gun
$5 on staples
$5 on tack strips
I already had the pillows, (but I should note that they came from a garage sale for $5…don’t they fit perfectly?!)
Who knows how to upholster? I guess I do now. I didn’t invest much in the chairs, so I wasn’t terrified to take them apart. The result is fabulous!
Don’t be afraid to try new things, gals!
(ps-the chair is still on a sawhorse in the picture…it doesn’t actually have long crazy legs!) I took the chairs in to a local upholsterer for a big and he said $400 per chair + fabric.
Add the cost of the chairs to that and it would be $450 per chair!
I spent $65 on each, They are still in excellent shape almost a year later, and now I don’t care if my kids love on them. Can you imagine the wreck I’d be if I’d dropped $900 on these bad boys? No thanks, I’ll do it myself 🙂
And YOU can DIY, too!
Love your blog! Thanks!
-Meg
Amazing, right? Little $. Awesome results! Thanks so much for sharing your hard work with us, Meg!
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So...motivate me! What have you been up to? Feel free to link up!
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I want a baking center. Please send it to Georgia. I am all thumbs and don't have any DIY to show off. (That pitiful pout works with DH) LOL
love the chair makeover, but the hutch is gorgeous!
OMG I was first! I'm never first! LOL I love your finds, there are fabulous! I actually picked up a patio set, table with umbrella and four chairs. It's in great shape, just needs some cushions. Fabulous find for $25! it will make it to my blog one of these days LOL
thanks for the feature!
Thanks for hosting, Roeshel! Hope you had a great weekend 🙂
-Ann Marie
Great ideas featured today, thanks, Roeshel! I will someday tackle a chair upholstery project…I swear…gulp! What an amazing money saver. Sending good thoughts to little Niski, too.
Great projects…love the baking center…I have a hutch and sideboard in my garage waiting for me to get some time to give it some love.
Great finds! I love your baking cabinet! And great job on your chairs. I know what you mean when you said. Who knows how to upholster? I did the same thing on a hand-me-down recliner. I think I spent a total of $80 on my red suede type fabric on clearance at JoAnne's. Then reused all the piping and used the old fabric as a pattern. It was A lot of work. Especially being a recliner with movable parts but I couldn't be happier! You do such an amazing job with your revamps! I love seeing what you come up with.
I adore your baking cabinet. I have a hutch in my living room truly crying out for a paint makeover!
Thanks so much for hosting!
Amy
Nice chairs, what's not to love about the price?
The hutch is awesome. I have a hutch, her name is Eve by the way, and I have way too much fun decorating her. You and your hutch will have many happy times together, that is for sure!
Lisa
P.S. I'm having a CSNstores.com giveaway, would you like to enter?
I love when furniture id painted black! What a transformation. The chair makeover was great too.
Thanks for hosting.
totally IN LOVE with your baking center! if only I had the room for such a beauty!
I love the idea of a baking center–what a great find! Thanks for hosting the linky. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week.
This is AMAZING!! I'm DYing over these chairs!! My mother and I were just discussing fixing up a nice chair like this and wondering if we could do it. Now I feel like I really can!! Do you have a step-by-step on how you did it, my any chance, so we'll have a jumping off point?
Thanks so much for hosting! I hope your lil dog is doing better!
~Morgan
Meet Virginia!
Meet Virginia!!
Meet Virginia!!!
I love the canisters of ingredients in the hutch. What a great idea! Who needs china anyway?!
This is my first linky thing. A Project Parade just sounded too fun 🙂