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Saving the lives of furniture…Tea Rose Home

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Sachiko at Tea Rose Home is a furniture super hero, saving the lives of furniture doomed to the dumpster. Check them out by clicking the links for more details!

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Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she beautiful?
The hutch transplant was a success!
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We interrupt this blog post for a very important message from Hudson Goods!

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Back to the regularly scheduled blog post and another AMAZING furniture rescue from Tea Rose Home, otherwise known as Furniture General Hospital. You won’t believe it!


To this beautiful chair with so much charm. I love the toille!

Dr. Sachiko! You’re an awesome furniture surgeon! I LOVE these! Thank you so much for sharing!!! What do you all think? Visit Tea Rose Home for so many more crafts and tutorials! Tell her the showoffs love her!

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Don’t forget to enter the giveaway today!
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Another one of my favorite things! I have this garland for spring:


Don’t you LOVE it? I want the Wish garland. Chic Sparkle is another one of my favorite etsy sellers and she has generously donated a GIFT! It’s glittery and it’s perfect for the holidays! She has garlands for all seasons and the Fall and Dream garland can be customized!

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Have you visited all of the DIY holiday links? I’m slowly getting through them. If I haven’t stopped to see you yet – I will! I’m just running fashionably late, as usual!

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 Show & Tell – Fabulous Furniture Makeovers

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Time for some furniture makeovers! Ready? Click the link to visit the DIY Show Off behind the masterpiece!

RockyBella
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RockyBella
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Copy Cat Creations


From Shannon: I wanted to show off my dresser. I needed a dresser for my 2 year old who is obsessed with cars. It was gonna be like 200 dollars for a cheap 5 drawer particle board dresser from Target and I wanted something of quality…but couldn’t afford it. I bought this dresser off craigslist for 30 dollars. Its solid wood. I painted it black and then sealed it….I wish I would have primed it first….but what are you gonna do…it was my first DIY project. I then bought new knobs at Home Depot…if I had to do that again…I hear you can get a better deal at ikea online…anyways, I taped off the lines for the road on top and painted that white white acrylic paint (only b/c that’s all I had on hand) I then cut out whole cars from car magazines and decoupaged them onto the fronts of the drawers. I think it turned out sooo great. He loves it and so do I! So, in total for the dresser, new knobs, paint, sealer, magazines and decoupage, It cost a total of $80. Not too shabby for a solid wood 6 drawer dresser.


Yoga Gal
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From Misty
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From Barbara: (The before picture is from WICKER WAREHOUSE; I did not take a before picture.) I used a mahogany gel stain to darken the dresser. I bought the drawer pulls and legs on ebay. It still looked too plain to me so I bought copper sheeting online. I sprayed it with an ammonia/salt/vinegar solution and left it outside for a week to give it an aged patina. Then I cut a piece for the top and for each drawer and used copper tacks to attach. Finally, I outlined the piece in copper liquid leaf. It turned out so much better than I had imagined. Before:


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Classic Campbell
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Home Sweet Home
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Living in the Moment
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Now…it’s your turn. Link an old post or create a quick recap showcasing your hard work again…perhaps new readers haven’t seen it! Show it off!
In either case – please post the button/link back to The DIY Show Off. Share the link in a quick note on your post today so everyone can enjoy the DIY Show & Tell!

What is it? It’s always a surprise with a different theme and no specific date planned…just pops up out of the blue. I just knew you were looking for something to blog about today.
Show it off!

If you’d like to link YOUR DIY FURNITURE post to the party:
  1. You must use the button above and link to this post to share the linky love.
  2. Add your permalink (not your blog url, but your Show & Tell 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. The party will run for a few days…so showing up fashionably late is acceptable. I will probably take tomorrow off from blogging so keep checking back for more links!
  5. If you notice your link has disappeared – please add the link back to The DIY Show Off to your post today with 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 Show & Tell is for FURNITURE makeovers and DIY ONLY. Links not related to DIY furniture will be deleted.


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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. 🙂

Furniture Feature Friday

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Miss Mustard Seed's Creative Blog

I‘ve been wanting to feature Miss Mustard Seed’s Creative Blog for quite a while now…she’s amazing and I love her Furniture Feature Fridays. (I’m suffering withdrawal too…I haven’t been a blog party in forever. Okay a week or so…but that’s too long!) It’s a wonderful DIY-related furniture party!

Furniture Feature Fridays
She has 35 before and afters posted! I snagged a few to show off. Okay…more than a few, but you won’t mind.

Look at this chair she got for free! Some girls have all the luck!

Well…not lucky at first glance. But then she made a slip cover. A project on my very own to-do list! (She claims she’ll do a tutorial so we’ll hold her to that! I’m going to need all of the help I can get!)

Here is the link and here is the after:

I love it. Don’t you?

She is the queen of painting furniture! It’s a Cinderella story for furniture. Magical.

Before:

Now: (drool)

What a beauty! I love the color, clever chalk board and beautiful scrolly design!

A foot stool is furniture too, right?

Look at this guy before:

And after his new burlap suit:

Wayne…you’re so handsome!

How about this $1 score. Before:


Beautiful after (and tutorial too):

Another table makeover! Before…
And amazing after:

She even wrote up a furniture stripping tutorial for you. What a girl. Talented and generous with giving you a hand.

I love this desk transformation too. Scary crackled before:
Beautiful chic after:
So, what do you think? Are you as insp
ired to play salon and makeover all of your furniture like I am?

Head over, check out the links and add your own furniture feature to the party! If that doesn’t convince you…she’s having an awesome giveaway too!

Furniture Feature Fridays

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. 🙂