Recent projects

Since I can't sleep right now or lately for that matter, I thought I'd update my blog with some projects I've been doing around the house. 

Cam's mom, Jill found this hutch at a cute little shop in Athens for $50 and got it for us...she knew I was wanting something for the kitchen :) This is the before picture.

It's pretty old, but it's in decent good condition. It just needed a little repair work (fixing a cabinet and new hardware) and some paint. After two coats of paint, plus a tinted glaze it still has an old, funky smell that I'm hoping will fade with time, but I can't complain with the deal she got. And I know this color yellow was a little risky, but I wanted it to stand out some.

 

And Rylan's big boy room is coming along...not quite finished, but I'm close. I saw some no sew curtains (on Pinterest, of course) and decided to make some for Rylan's room since I can't sew. They are a little short, but add some color to the room. And we ordered some model airplanes from amazon that Cam put together and hung...I love the planes!! Rylan's room is bi-plane themed.

 

 

These are some old shutters I found a while back at Habitat for Humanity and knew I wanted to have somewhere in the house. I decided to paint them red and distress them to give them an old barn feeling to go with the bi-plane theme.  I bought a bunch of old frames from thrift stores (for a total of under $8...happy with that b/c frames can get expensive) and I painted most of them and distressed some of them. They have old barn and bi-plane pictures in them. 

Here’s Rylan’s room so far :)