Monthly Archives: September 2011

Roost and a Boost

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Meet:  Marissa from

ROOST

She’s an aspiring interior designer and talented DIY’er.  I LOVE these DIY projects:

Draper Chest Ikea Hack – Marissa couldn’t find the perfect night stand but didn’t give up and created her own version of exactly what she had in mind and transformed this Ikea dresser into a $4000 Dorothy Draper Espana Chest look-alike.
TONS of Pin-worthy Inspiration for your files…
My favorite post?  Vintage Scarf Art. Yes. DIY project in my future.
Chilly weekend.  Looking for something to do? Check out Marissa’s lovely blog:  Roost! 

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Special thanks this week to these two ladies.  Just when I’m feeling a little insecure, my blog friends (you all) make me smile. Yesterday, these sweet acts of kindness completely put a stop to my pity party for one:

Lindsey from 
Better After had some sweet words for our room in the design challenge and shared the contest with her readers.  I love Lindsey. I love her hilarious commentary on the before and after projects she shares.  I wish being witty came so naturally to me!

Another favorite, completely comical site created by writer, comedian and actress, Molly Erdman…

Gary & Elaine stopped by Cassity & Roeshel’s room! Awesome!

I can’t finish a post these days without a reminder and request for a vote for our room at http://www.facebook.com/shawfloors?sk=app_178630008866363 where your vote every day is a chance to win flooring for your home.  We want our friends to win too!

Thank you all so much for your help!  
And for your comments, reassurance and support. (And patience with begging!) I am so blessed by your friendship.  Have a wonderful weekend.  See you tomorrow at the DIY Project Parade!  
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 Time!

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It’s been another crazy week with me still having a heavy work load and the Roomspiration linky parties and voting and Mr. DIY’s birthday and even though the chilly weather won’t let me forget it’s Fall already, I did have a chance to add a touch of fall to our living room (see the before and after pictures I shared earlier this week here).  

This week I decorated the mantel for Fall. Our mantel is a bit of a challenge with the tv being there and the need to disguise wiring but I like how it turned out this year. 

 Candle light and warm colors = coziness.

What do you think?  Busy? Yes!  Just the way I like it! 😉 

Do you decorate for fall?

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!


Have you voted for Cassity & Roeshel today? We’d LOVE your help + YOU’ll be entered to win  new flooring from Shaw for a room in your home! We’re not too proud to beg!  🙂  We want a chance at winning too!  Find out how Shaw’s 30 Days of HGTV Home tab:  http://www.facebook.com/shawfloors?sk=app_178630008866363.  Enter your email and vote for Cassity & Roeshel. That’s it – every day you vote in September, you’re entered to win that day’s prize of new flooring for your home!

Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
Thanks to those voting and entering to win everyday!!!  I’ve been trying to reply/visit you personally in return to thank you personally, but in case I’ve missed you – YOU ROCK! Your help is so appreciated because this means so much.  Thank you! 😉 

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Congratulations to the winner of the 3M Couples Speak giveaway!



Shel said… 2

I entered the contest..my submission:

She says: Are you sure? I know you work so many hours at your job and you’re tired when you get home.

She means: Please, let me pay someone to do this so it doesn’t turn into a home improvement mini series that lasts an entire season.

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. 🙂

Roomspiration – Bathrooms

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Roomspiration
Isn’t the Roomspiration so much fun?! Have you been linking up and visiting the links?  I love seeing inspiring bathrooms – real homes, real functional spaces and transformations, don’t you?  Today I’m joining SJ at


She has a beautiful master bathroom reveal. 
We actually have 5 “bathrooms” in this old farmhouse which consist of a powder room in the unfinished basement (actually in the old scary original cellar part) which is only used because of convenient location when we’re down there working on a project. No, I won’t share that one with you at this time.  It’s clean with the exception of perhaps a spider because of it’s rare use.  When we get to remodeling the basement, renovating the small powder room be a part of the plan.

I‘ve shared these next two before, but I love that I can show you how they’ve held up and stood the test of time AND have a little motivation to clean for current photos.  🙂

On the first floor, we have a guest bathroom and a powder room.  These I will share with you. Both were budget friendly and serve as pretty functional use for us as well as guests in our home.

Powder room before was closed for business.  
We took everything out and started from scratch.
(Sorry this is so gross!  It’s aood thing we could see the potential in this old house – a lot of areas were disgusting.)
It was originally a closet back in 1927.
Now it’s light and bright and clean…

The first floor guest bathroom before was ugly but being a bathroom used by guests, I wanted to make it less of an embarrassment.  
When we bought the house (minus the carpet – yes, carpet)…
Now…
When we bought the house except there was no door there.
Now…
The painted and stenciled floor was a budget friendly waterproof solution until a bigger budget is dedicated to this area. 

The last two bathrooms in our home are upstairs.  One full hall bathroom and a dinky teeny tiny master bathroom. Seriously – you probably have a closet that’s larger.  Those I will not share until I have a pretty ‘after’ transformation to ‘show off’.  They’re both ugly, outdated and gross but one step at a time. Remember, we DIY and remodel as time and money allow. No debt.  So until a few main floor projects are completed, those will stay our little secret.

Let’s see what you’ve done with your bathrooms!  Head over to join us at

and link up your bathroom makeovers!

I’m also joining my friend Cassity today at

Reminder for Monday!


Here’s the schedule for Roomspiraton. Hope to see you there!
abode love: a man\View Along the Way
  Involving Color
{ All Things Bright and Beautiful }  Touch of Gray
The Blooming Hydrangea  The Mustard Ceiling
 The DIY Show Off

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Fall Festival coming a little later this afternoon since both of these linky parties fell on the same day.  🙂

Reminder to head over to Shaw Floors’ Facebook to enter to win a new area rug or flooring for one of your rooms and to vote for Cassity and Roeshel.  We’d love for one of our e-friends to win (and in return, we’d love our coastal cottage room to win too!).  Good luck!


Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
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. 🙂