Monthly Archives: September 2011

DIY Project Parade

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Welcome to the weekly DIY Project Parade!
The DIY Show Off
I‘ve been crazy keeping up with the fun parties (Roomspiration, Good Mood Board and DIY Fall Festival) so my projects this week are in the works without much to share in the way of progress or tutorials.  Here’s a look back at what I worked on and posted this week in case you’ve missed them. 
still a bit of work in progress to complete
The DIY Show Off was featured in our local newspaper (pg. 25)!
Woo hoo!  So excited!
Mood board for our guest bedroom
Most items we already have or found at thrift stores/Habitat Restore.
I have to sneak this in here.  Well, not too sneaky, is it?  This is the last week!
There’s still time to vote for Cassity & Roeshel and enter to win new flooring for your home!
And last weekend’s DIY ottoman.  There’s still time to enter to win a designer ottoman 
kit at The DIY Club!  You can make one too!
This week I intend to make BIG progress in the guest bedroom. I’d love to finish it up by the end of the week and there’s lots to do from floor to ceiling!  No procrastinating, no excuses! Does anyone have a coupon code for Serena & Lily or Layla Grace?  I absolutely want the bedding shown in my mood board but it’s not at all budget friendly, especially for a guest room, especially when the room needs a lot of work.  I can’t get it out of my mind now that I’ve seen it and nothing else I come across appeals to me now!  🙁
Let’s see what’s been keeping you busy!


The DIY Show Off


1. You must use the button above (ADD BUTTON HTML CODE FROM SIDE BAR TO YOUR POST) and link to this post to share the linky love.

2.Include your name or blog name and project title. Add your permalink (not your blog url, but your DIY project post url). Feel free to link a Past Post, just invite your readers in a current post with a quick note.

3.Or email your link to thediyshowoff@gmail.com and I will add it for you.

4.If you notice your link has disappeared -please add the link back to The DIY Show Off to your post today, a button or a quick note to your readers about the party and try again! I love when everyone participates and readers check out everyone’s links, but I think the return favor of linking back is the nice thing to do so everyone plays fair and enjoys all of the projects and links. Also – this blog party is for DIY projects only. Links not related to DIY will be deleted.

5.  NOW you can “like” the links!  What a fun idea!  Most liked links may be included in a post of DIY Project Parade highlights later in the week!

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Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂

DIY Fall Festival (and Roomspiration – Dining Rooms)

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The DIY Show Off
Jena from Involving Color is kicking off Roomspiration – Dining Room edition today. She’s the perfect host for the dining room edition. She has a gorgeous inspiring dining room!  With the DIY Fall Festival falling on the same day as Roomspiration – dining rooms, I dug out some fall decor and made the dining room mantel and buffet festive.
Roomspiration

I’m also linking up to
Mantels at

The Lettered Cottage
A great place for Fall inspiration! 

I used a mix of traditional fall colors and added a bit of blue. I want to do something different for a centerpiece next week but for now, I’m working with what I could find in my stash of autumn.
Dining Room Mantel
The “pumpkins” are  .59 thrift store balls of yarn. 
 The pine cone candle holders are new.
Buffet (old vintage dresser)
More shots of our dining room. 
This wall before had an ugly door without character when we bought our home. 
Barn door track was a $30 Craig’s List find.  Glass door is original to the house, found in the barn.
Mantel is also original to our house, stored up in the barn rafters for years.
Just for fun, this was our dining room when we bought our home…
This is our dining room today. Quite a change! What we did:  Tore down ceiling tiles and put up dry wall ceiling, changed out light fixture (to be changed again one of these days), ripped out carpet and sanded/refinished pine planks and now new distressed wide plant bamboo flooring has been installed, swapped out ugly door for prettier one and changed the door trim to matching wider trim and of course – painted.  🙂

What do you think?  Do you decorate using traditional colors or do your own thing?

Link up! Inspire me! FALL DIY and decorating ONLY please!
The DIY Show Off
Let’s see your DIY fall projects! Show off!



Rules:

•Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that YOU HAVE CREATED. Feel free to include a past link, however please make a note on a recent post about the DIY Fall Festival to invite everyone over to join in or to search the collection of fall inspired ideas.

•Add your project title to Linky party below.  (example: House # Pumpkins)

•Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)

•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.

•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project.  Please only link up same project once to one party.

•If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!

• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!

See the all and the latest Fall linky party at

The DIY Show Off

Remember to stop over to Involving Color to see some beautiful REAL dining room links!

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Linking up here this week:  Tickled Pink at 504 Main  
Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂

Jenna Sue Design

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I‘ve known Jenna Sue for a while now and love her blog and DIY projects and in the event that you don’t, meet:  Jenna Sue from 
Jenna Sue
Jenna is an amazing photographer,
Etsy shop owner, selling creative modern prints…(I just added at least 20 prints to the shopping cart in my head and bookmarked her site for future room makeovers!)
I love her personalized prints…
Custom House Number Art Print / Choose your Colors & Background / 8x10
and  customized city map prints…
Custom City Map Art Print / Choose your City & Color / 8x10
And if that’s not enough, she’s also a talented DIY’er.  Take a look:
Foyer Before
If I close my eyes and picture my dream foyer, this is it:
I love everything about it – coat hooks, flooring, door, art, new board and batten and soft color palette. 
Need more info on DIY wainscoting? I do! I’m so thankful! Jenna Sue shares her tutorials:
Her home is so fresh and pretty. I love this transformation too:
Before
Vintage Chest Now and the her beautiful livingroom

Head over to see Jenna Sue’s California home and her adventures in her current Florida home.  SO much to see! You’ll love the befores and afters!

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There are 8 days left to vote for Cassity & Roeshel (pretty please!) and every vote is a chance to win new flooring (area rug, hardwood, laminate, carpeting!!!) for a room in your home!  Isn’t that awesome?! 
All you have to do is vote!  We’d love a little comment love too – we’re watching and each time we see Cassity & Roeshel ~ we hoot and holler!  Enter and vote to win!  Somebody has to win and we want to see our friends’ names listed and new flooring in your home!
Go here:
If our room wins the Shaw/HTGV Home design challenge – we’ll be enjoying an all expense paid trip to HGTV’s Urban Oasis in Chicago! We’d LOVE to share that experience with you!  Please help us pull ahead of the competition this last week and take advantage of all of the chances to win yourself too!  Nothing would make us happier than for us all to be winners!  Thanks! 
Cassity is also giving away a beautiful Shaw area rug – any size/any style at Remodelaholic! 

Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂