No barn? No problem. Paint a barn quilt patio rug for your deck.
Barn quilt patio rug from vinyl flooring
Vintage typewriter table gets a chalk paint update
A vintage typewriter table gets a modern farmhouse-style update with black chalk paint and grain sack stripes.
Statue of Liberty sign for the porch
By now, my husband really should know better than to leave plywood laying around out in the open inside our garage where anybody who lives here can steal it. If he wants to keep the plywood for his own use he should hide it somewhere out of sight, amirite? Anyhoo, in a related matter, here's …
Makeover | Mini chest of drawers
Here's a little chest of drawers that I redid this week. (I think it's supposed to be a jewelry box, but I've been keeping it on my desk to store office supplies in.) This is what it looked like when I first got it. I picked it up for a dollar at a garage sale …
Makeover | A new look for an old chair
Old, unwanted chairs have a way of finding me. This one was waiting for me on the curb outside of my son's apartment building in Milwaukee. Here's what it looked like when I found it. The hunter green was a little dated, but otherwise the chair was in great shape, so (much to my son's …
Makeover | Chalk-painted suitcase
Here's a little train case I picked up at a thrift store ... Except when I bought it, it looked like this ... Cute little case, right? Except for the 1990s floral tapestry. I like to use old suitcases for storage (because a shelf full of vintage suitcases is much nicer to look at than …