Classy Black Doors!

I saw this simple idea on Pinterest and loved it!  When I tried one, I was out of my mind, so I did all of the rest.  Here is an easy way to classy up your doors- from white to black. 

This is the only picture of before.
And these are the afters!

Absolutely love the outcome! And all it took was a few cans of spray paint! (Of course we took the doors off the hinges and outside first =)  Never be afraid to try...

"Our Dining Room Table Re-do" (actually it's just the chairs)!

Last year, we put our 4 person dining table on the sunporch and got quite a bit of use out of it...HOWEVER- the oldest dog did, too..! She scratched her face on the seats and wore them out and made them smell...Here's what the chairs looked like a week ago...

I wanted to recover them inexpensively and also keep the exposure of the seats to a minimum... so of course I looked for material and found a great mix packaged altogether (mostly for quilters) at Wal-mart!!  I also found clear plastic material there for 97 cents a yard that is made especially for covering tables, picnics, and this type of furniture... Here's how I went about it...

Removed the screws and the seat...

I used the can of spray adhesive to initially attach the material...(and no, I did not do this on the carpet- this is an after shot) 

Cut the clear cover and stapled it over the material onto the back of the seat!  Notice I chose a DIFFERENT but compatible fabric for each seat, instead of making them all the same!! :)
Here is a picture of a couple of the completed chairs! I'm very pleased with the way they turned out...

 screwing the seats back on was the hardest part ironically!

And here is a couple pics of the finished product!  Hope this helps somebody with their decorating issues!   The dog is going to hate these- they are way too slick for her to scratch her face- she'll have to move onto the fence ;)

Happy, happy, happy for now!

                                                      

"From Rarely Used Dining Room to a Room of My Own!"

What started out as a dining room...

Then I repainted and re-staged to accommodate the pool table we bought at a garage sale!...

THEN I decided to add a bench and repaint...

Now, thanks to my wonderful husband, he's convinced me into letting me have the room all to myself- the boys have the game room and each one a bedroom...my hubby uses the living room as his office...so here it is in progress...

Pool table is still stacked on the right, and I'm waiting on my little loveseat from Wal-mart!!!

Here's the end product!! (Without the t.v. from upstairs, however)  But thanks so much to my husband for helping me put that couch together- everything else is stuff I already had and re-purposed!!

So happy with the end product! And from now on, THIS is where I'll be doing most of my posting!! :)

"Some of My Favorite Past Reno's"

This is Noah's old room at our last house in Danville, IL...you can see by the following photos how it was transformed...when we peeled up the carpet, we found where there used to be 2 walls and double doors...my parents and sister bought the house from us and live there now =)

The actual windows of the room are rounded- even the glass! It was such a neat house to work on and live in!!

3 months later this is what it looked like for our Open House Christmas Party- we used it for extra seating- wood floor still unfinished at this point...

After the New Year, the yucky ceiling came down- both boys were big helpers!!

Now the walls are framed and the doors are up! But there is still a ways to go...