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Foyer Transformation

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The transformation you’re about to see is a beautiful! transformation right before your eyes! Pretty but outdated wallpaper to light beautiful simplicity.  That’s the results of the hard working team at With a Grateful Prayer and a Thankful Heart.  
Here it is before:
Lucky L – the wallpaper came off in less than 2 hours for her!
Wallpaper – gone!

After stripping the wallpaper and scrubbing the walls, she have spackled and primed the walls, painted the walls and gave all of the trim two fresh coats of paint. I love the new color and fresh white trim!
 
 

These once carpet covered stairs got a new look!  Don’t you love the detail?  So unique and pretty!

But L cracks me up!  The design reminds her of a peering man with a mustache after staring at the design so often while applying it.  Things like that happen to me too! She couldn’t live with twelve angry men looking at her each time she went up the steps, so she covered it all up with primer and paint, re-measured the center and stamped them with this pretty fleur de lis.
 

Some more DIY skills, creative thinking and  finishing touches (see her original post here)…

Looks like a photo straight out of House Beautiful to me.  Don’t you love the fresh new updated look? I love her decorating and accents. Walking in the front door every day must put a smile on her face.  🙂
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. 🙂

Kitchen Makeover at Design Blooms

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Oh my,  kitchen beauty.  I’m envious! My friend Nicole at Design Blooms has an amazing kitchen transformation to share.  

Here is her kitchen before:



And here is her do a double-take reveal:







Check out the cost breakdown! Wow! 
Great job as usual Nicole! Your outdated kitchen’s cosmetic 
surgery was a success! Love it!

There’s hope for our poor kitchen yet!  We finally agreed on paint colors.  Care to take a guess?  What do you get when Mr. DIY wants green walls and I want gray or white? 
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. 🙂

Toddler to Big Boy Room full of DIY details!

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I‘ve been blessed with girls so when it comes to decorating or anything related to boys, I’m clueless but that doesn’t stop me from loving a great boy’s room before and after makeover. I love this one from Hi Sugarplum!  Especially when it involves creative ideas, repurposing and DIY.  Here are some of her photos but be sure to head over to check out the full reveal and all of the details here. 

 

It seems like only yesterday I was decorating my son’s nursery, but now he’s 9 and it was time to kiss the ‘sweetness’ good-bye. So while he was visiting his grandparents for two weeks, we surprised him with a room makeover suitable for a big guy. And the best part is, by using items from our house, updating his existing stuff, and shopping smart….the total bill for the room came to under $300!


Before:


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Pale lime walls, puppy dog patchwork bedding, pictures he made as a toddler, Crystal Light carpet stains


jack bed before




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And the awesome afters:


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The bed was spray painted high-gloss white. The small Ikea sisal rug was borrowed from the laundry room and adds some warmer tones as well as texture. The over sized wall clock is from Marshalls.


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Love the stripes!
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DIY – cover a corkboard with burlap to add texture.


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DIY – soup can pencils holders


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Organized study area…


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Gallery wall with room to grow and DIY prints from the zoo.


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DIY cork map (A project on my list too – just waiting for the map to arrive.  Great minds DIY alike!)A


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Awesome job, Cassie (proven by his happy reaction at the reveal)!  Loved that!  Thanks so much for sharing your hard work.  You created a fun big boy room – so creative with your budget.  Great job!
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. 🙂