Last weekend I saw these bifold doors and pallet on the side of the road. The doors were really nice. Solid pine. I happened to be driving my husband’s truck, and I threw them in the back. We also had these headboards from an old set of bunk beds that the boys had. The wood was […]
Decorating and DIY
Think outside the (flower) box.
My husband built a bunch of these flower boxes, but they never got used. They were just lying around in his shop collecting dust, so, I turned them into something else. I took two and painted them purple using one of those free paint samples from the paint store. My husband had some drawer pulls in […]
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 […]
