Tags archives: fabric

  • DIY Dining Room Chairs with

  • We used to have the funnest dining room chairs around.  I gave them a full make over this weekend, and they are no longer fun.  They are fabulous.  But let’s start at the beginning.  When we moved into this big house six years ago, we had four chairs.  Four chairs are not enough for big house dinner parties.  Also in the ‘not enough’ category were funds for new chairs…. Until DH called [...]
  • Project Chandelier

  • Our guest room is lovely. But as I mentioned in my PARA Paints #ParaBlogCrew application video, the one thing our guest room lacked was attractive lighting. My mom gave us this chandelier, which came out of her former dressing room before a renovation, but I never really loved the brushed nickel. So I pulled out a can of gold spray paint and got to work:) I swapped out the old tube thi[...]
  • I want to live la vida La-Z-Boy

  • So two weeks later, I finally finished unpacking from #BlogHer13. Mainly because I was being lazy about it. Hard to believe it's been two weeks! Feels like just yesterday we were all in Chicago. One of the sponsors at BlogHer13 was La-Z-Boy I feel in love with the occassional chairs they had in their booth. And a bright move on some PR person's part was bringing in handsome men sporting cust[...]
  • Project headboard

  • A few years ago we were able to put new windows in. This was an amazing day! Of all the apartments we lived in, and our first house in the city (which was also super old), we’ve never had a house we could open the windows! Most of the windows had been sealed shut, or they were so old and wonky they didn’t open even if you wanted to. This house was the same until that fateful day. When they took[...]