DIY Fall Festival (and Roomspiration – Dining Rooms)

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Roeshel

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.

I’m also linking up to
Mantels at

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!

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

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

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Linking up here this week:

Roomspiration – Craft Rooms

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Roeshel

Have you been following along and participation in the Roomspiration series? Today it’s Craft Rooms hosted by Shan from

You MUST see her awesome craft room! It’s so organized and pretty and you’ll drool!

My craft room/office combo is actually in the works. I’m in the process of moving my office/craft room upstairs (to be able to close the door when it’s a disaster) and create a pretty guest bedroom downstairs. I just emptied this room:

Before (although the twin bed has been gone for about a year)

Now that room is completely empty. When we moved in, we removed the gross carpet and just live(d) with plywood.

(cleaning out in progress…)

The mood board I created is intended for this room!

And there wasn’t a door on the bathroom! We added one soon after we moved in and it’s time to add trim to this side of the door frame. The opening on the right used to be a walk-through closet. It’s now our laundry room. (Another project one of these days!)

Okay – enough about the guest room! Back to the craft room!

Most of my craft junk has been moved into our unfinished family room. It looks like this…YIKES! Where does all that stuff come from?!!!

Just keeping it real! The family room is another project on our DIY list.

However, here’s where what I’m keeping is all getting moved to, everything in it’s place…

I‘m not quite finished and it’s all just moving, re-organizing, sorting and purging and using things I already had into a room that didn’t need re-painted at this time. I still have to move my sewing machine in here. Nothing new in the room but it really needed organized and downsized and I love the way just a new location with old t
hings feels fresh and new, don’t you?

See more real craft spaces and link up your own at Family Brings Joy.

Next up = dining rooms on Friday at Involving Color!

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DIY Ottoman, DIY Project Parade and Giveaway Alert!

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Roeshel

Hello, DIY’ers! How was your weekend? Productive? Relaxing? Fun? I hope all three! Show and tell time! I’ll go first. I’m still tweaking this catch all/entry area but having so much fun doing it. See the ottoman below? We built it! I’m linking up to

Head over to see some gorgeous inspiration!

Remember when I mentioned we were building an ottoman and that I’d share the spot inside where we enter our home? Well, here it is! It’s just a little nook for right now until we have a real front door (next year?) or until we save enough for Mr. DIY’s dream stand alone refrigerator and freezer, then this little nook in the kitchen goes away. But for now I love that we have a little space to sit comfortably, put on or take off shoes and dump everything when walking in the door.

(Wow…construction in the kitchen creates dust. I thought I got it all! I’ll be taking care of that refrigerator vent asap!)

Lalka is my shadow so she’s usually right where I want to snap pictures – diva kitty!

The ottoman frame (everything except the feet and fabric actually) were provided by The Upholstery Studio. They have entire kits for DIY ottomans! That means, for this 24×26 ottoman, I only picked out the fabric and bun feet and the rest was all ready to be assembled with the assistance of detailed instructions and helpful video. Mr. DIY and I built this together with our own two hands. Here’s a little of what we did:

Pre-dill holes

Glue and screw together the frame

Attach webbing

Add burlap

Glue down foam and cover wood with dacron.

Cover in batting

Cut fabric

and sew cover

Slip on cover and staple

Create welting

Staple on welting

Cover up

Add feet

(and felt to protect floors)

It can be built in just a few hours although I recommend taking a few days…better to spread it out a little and take your time. I’m so proud that we built it ourselves and I also learned some cool things along the way. Interesting bits that definitely help with future projects. Super sturdy construction and bouncy comfy seating! It’s empowering – I feel like I could build an entire couch! Well, you really wouldn’t want to see that but the entire learning process was very helpful for when re-upholstery skills are needed on a future thrift store find. The kit looks a little overwhelming at first because of all of the goodies packed inside, but it’s not hard. It was actually fun and more like a complete course in re-upholstery with everything needed to build the perfect accent piece that matches your style.

I even had a blast designing the fabric myself at spoonflower. If it fits your style, you can purchase it too. Yep, add fabric designer to my list of DIY. Easy and exactly what I wanted…personal/cooking related and a little typography-looking but not girly or too kitchen-y.

Since it sits in our kitchen, I wanted to personalize it for ~~the cook~~ my husband. I really love that it’s exactly what I wanted for this space. I have plenty left to make some throw pillows or covers for bar stools or even valances. I’m still undecided.

What do you think? Show of hands: How many of you have an ottoman in your kitchen? ::crickets
:: Anyone? 🙂

GIVEAWAY ALERT!

And guess what?! There’s a designer ottoman kit giveaway going on at the DIY Club right now! Head over to enter to win a designer ottoman kit for yourself and also see how Cheri, Holly and Amy took their designer ottoman kit and created something that fits the style of their home too.

Let’s see what’s been keeping you busy!

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!

I received the designer ottoman kit as a part of my participation in the DIY Club. I did not receive compensation for building the ottoman and opinion and results are my own.

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