You don’t need a lot of money for a Halloween costume. I had a budget of $10. You don’t need a lot of time, either. I had a window of 1 hour. I started mine at 11:00 this morning. I was done by 11:52. I spent all $10. Here’s what I used: I already had […]
Timesavers
Trash to treasure – cute medicine cabinet!
I’ve got friends texting me and messaging me now when they see things on the side of the road. A friend spotted this last week and messaged me on facebook . I drove right over and snatched it up. It’s an old medicine cabinet. It was missing the back, but it was pretty solid. My […]
Trash to treasure. Turn a headboard into a…
This is the end to one of the boys’ old bunk beds. I have four of them. I’ve had them for about four years. I’ve been saving them for something. I just didn’t know what. Until recenly… We took one and primed it. Then my husband built this out of scrap wood from his shop: […]
Trash to treasure… from table to kid’s desk.
This table was another side-of-the-road freebie. Nothing fancy. I could have just painted it. But I had a little more of a vision for this one… I had to enlist the help of my husband. He’s got a lot of scrap wood in his shop, and since we are in a rough financial spot right […]
Desk and Chair Makeover (For Free!)
I found this chair on the side of the road. It was originally brown (I forgot to take a picture before I primed it). I took the seat cushion off (just flip the chair over and there are usually 4 screws on each corner to unscrew). I used the free paint from the paint store […]
Mini dresser transformation. For free (or close to it).
Here’s another side-of-the-road freebie — this little end table/cabinet /dresser thing. I picked that sucker up as soon as I saw it sitting out there all alone… But I don’t really care for that veneered/laminate wood look. And I really really don’t like the hardware. So I took off the hardware, put on one […]