Colorful Blue Laundry Room Makeover

Colorful Blue Laundry Room Makeover
Submitted by Design Share

My laundry room used to be a bit of an embarrassment....Plain white walls, florescent overhead lighting, storage shelves that didn't fit the space and clutter, clutter, clutter! It was overwhelming to go in there to do the wash, but go in I did, because I had to. The rest of my home is pretty much decorated to the nines, so it really didn't make any sense to NOT do the laundry room. Actually, I have long yearned for this space to be inviting and looking good, it was always just so much easier to close the door and forget about it! Well, not any more. In one weekend, I banished the boring and corralled the clutter into what is now a functional, bright and cheery spot to do a chore we ALL have to do. I just love the color in there now, and it really does make a daily chore that much more pleasant.

This wire shelving unit was waaay too big in here.

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Armoire Makeover: Before and After

Armoire Makeover: Before and After

contributed by A Little Paint

I don’t know why everyone complains or could ever get burned out. All kids need are candy, movies and puppies. Bam, entertained.

I was babysitting ALL weekend, but still managed to get my own stuff done. I wasn't about to let the weekend disappear without accomplishing something. On Thursday, I saw an interesting piece on craigslist. HOWEVER, I work during the day AND don’t have a car big enough to pick up big furniture pieces on a whim so I had my servant mom go pick it up for me. She is the best So for the rest of that day I was so anxious ready to get home to meet this monster.

And if you don’t like painted furniture, don’t read any further. This guy needed some attention. I thought it was a wonderfully unique piece, but it had A LOT of cat scratch fever. You just can’t see it in this photo. I always forget to take the “Before”

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70's Coffee Table Refinished To Buffet Table

70's Coffee Table 
Refinished For Kitchen Nook as a Buffet
contributed by Under A Copper Sky

Here's the little 70's coffee table

that I turned into a table for our kitchen nook.  

Can I say,

love,

love,

love!!

From this

To this

To in my beautiful kitchen

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Farmhouse Bathroom 180 Degree Renovation

Farmhouse Bathroom Renovation

contributed by HollerDesign

This much needed renovation transformed a dark, outdated bathroom into a space more appropriate to this cute farmhouse. The design combines humble, traditional elements (a cast iron tub, white subway tile, wide plank flooring) with cleaner, more modern features (a wall mounted toilet, recessed lighting, and a vanity with clean overlay drawers.) 

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Remodeled and Beautifully Decorated Dining Room

Remodeled and Decorated Dining Room

contributed by View Along The Way

If I had had the opportunity to invite you to dinner at our home about a year and a half ago, we probably would've enjoyed a classic peanut-butter-and-jelly while perched atop five-gallon drums of paint or sheetrock mud.

But if you'd declined, and we rescheduled for a few months later, you would've enjoyed a much finer dining experience: something microwaved, enjoyed from the futon in our bedroom, because that was the only room with real chairs.

If you'd been smart enough to postpone once again, we would've greatly upgraded your quality of food (well, not that greatly - I'm still figuring out this cooking thing) and served from our couch and ottoman downstairs.

But today! Today we would feast from an actual table and actual chairs in an actual dining room, like grown-ups!

And of course, when it's just Andy and me, we always take our meals in the dining room, and never on the couch anymore. *Cough.*

But why would we have avoided the dining room in the beginning? Because it looked like this:

Gleaming brass chandelier, wallpaper remnants clinging to the walls, unsanitary carpet underfoot, and glorious popcorn ceilings.

From mid-demo: most of the wallpaper was gone, carpeting ripped up and popcorn ceilings removed.
Shortly after: my dad helped us install and paint the picture molding around the bottom of the room and the upgraded crown molding at the top. Then everyone put the pressure on me to choose a paint color.

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Miss Peapod, Furniture Redo

Miss Peapod, Furniture Redo 

contributed by West furniture Revival

I'M ON A ROLL TODAY..

HERES MY NEXT BEFORE AND AFTER.

I WAS AT THE THRIFT STORE AGAIN WHEN I FOUND

MISS PEAPOD..SHE WAS WAITING FOR ME QUIETLY IN THE CORNER,ALONE AND DEPRESSED.

AND THE PRICE COULDNT BE BEAT $6.99

SO HERE ARE THE BEFORE PICTURES THERES ALOT IM GETTING BETTER AT TAKING BEFORE PICTURES..

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Remodeled Spare Bathroom With Painted Stripes

Remodeled Spare Bathroom With Painted Stripes
contributed by Our Home In Progress

Here are the before & afters of our spare bathroom. It has come so far from it’s original state. I seriously cannot believe its the same room! Remember, we had to rip walls out, take off awful wallpaper borders, struggle with the stripes, and replace pretty much everything? Well, it was worth all of it! It is one of my favorite rooms.

*Forgive the photo quality, my battery started dying so the flash/colors came out somewhat off.

Before

After

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Kitchen With Green Cabinets

Kitchen With Green Cabinets
contributed by This House We Call Home

My goal was for my kitchen to welcome people!  I love the colour!


Well, it is Finally done! Or, as done as it is going to be for awhile. There are some finishing touches that I will add over time, but for now my kitchen is done & I'm loving it! I took the time to declutter, delete things I wasn't using and to really organize all the cabinets. You can click on this Link to peek if you want to see some before shots. I will be adding more before shots with information on what I did.


Everyday I walk into my kitchen and feel Happy! The colour of my cupboards makes me smile everytime I look at them! I love the wall colour...I was really going for that clean swedish look yet still be cosy! Our house sits on a heavily treed lot and is a challenge to me when it comes to choosing colour! But thankfully, I am happy with the results!

  

Even on the dullest days in November my kitchen is still cheerful!



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Kitchen Renovation With Built-in Banquette Seating

Kitchen Renovation 

With Built-in Banquette Seating

contributed by Grey Dog Designs

Let me begin with a brief synopsis about our house...  

What is now "our house" started out as Bryan's house...a single man buying his first home.  The items that a women might have as a requirement while house hunting or put on her "non negotiable" list…well they just never cross a man's mind.  As long as it has 4 walls, a roof and a yard to get dirty in, it's good enough for my man!  Needless to say the house needed a bit of TLC.  Lucky for me, I LOVE home renovations!!  Hubby does NOT love home renovations, but he tolerates it because he knows it makes me happy.  

True love I tell ya!

Here's a brief recap of a few small projects that have been tackled since moving in:

- Every wall in the house has been sanded and painted since they were all covered with high gloss paint...

yes, EVERY - SINGLE - WALL

- The ceilings were all scraped and smoothed to get rid of the popcorn

- Every closet door had a 70's accordion door which has been replaced with a regular door

- The dark wood mouldings throughout the house were all painted a nice clean shade of off-white.  This really helped lighten up the entire house since it's a bit smaller and doesn't get much natural light.

Now we move onto the bigger projects!  I figured I would start with the kitchen.

The kitchen has been a work in progress for a few months and we’re finally nearing the end!  (Or at least as far as we are going to go with the kitchen)  Here are a few pictures of what the kitchen looked like on move in day...

(sorry the quality isn't great...Bryan took most of the before pics)

 

 Kitchen sink area

 

Previous homeowner’s idea of a pantry

More ingenious storage ideas!  That’s a curtain covering the cabinets below, and not too sure about the S hooks above.

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Toy Box Bench Make-Over

Toy Box Bench Make-Over

contributed by All Fresh and Clean

I picked this toy box up for $6 at the thrift store a few weeks ago.  I liked the design and knew I could make it adorable.  =)

The first thing I did was apply paint stripper.  It worked really well, except for the parts where all those darn stickers were!  If anyone can explain the mess under this pink paint, please do!!! lol  So first was the pink, then red and purple finger paints (?) then bright yellow, then white.

I sanded for hours. And gave it a good scrub down with Basic H.

I wanted to make sure the paint color was ok, because when I bought the paint they were out of some of the mixer colors, so the paint guy just winged it!  UGH,  I had a florescent green!  Luckily I had a gallon of yellowish beige.  I mixed the two and it came out perfect.  yay!!! 

I cut some little vinyl birds with my cricut for the finishing touch! 

Before and After

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