Yellow painted chair

This chair was painted for my daughter Jentry.  She needed a desk chair in her apartment.

Turquoise table

This is an antique table from my in-laws basement.  I've had it for a few years, but I finally got around to refinishing it.

My daughter Erin actually did most of the work on this one.

A new accent table.....Shabby Chic!

The Ivory Buffet

Unfortunately I don't have any before pictures of this one, but you're gonna love the after ones...

I basically sanded her down, two coats of Ivory paint, distressed her, stained her, and topped her off with two coats of water based polyurethane.

This turned out sooo pretty!  She is now serving as Erin's dresser in Texas.

This is a buffet makeover....This is the bottom of a hutch that belonged to our dear friend Kathy.  Her daughter Kendra was storing it in her basement, but it was ready for some love and a new life.

I started sanding it off with my palm sander, then I remembered I needed a BEFORE picture.

She started as a shiny maple color

Here she is all sanded down and rubbed down with liquid sandpaper

After 3 coats of Cut Ruby valspar paint

It was almost too pretty to distress, but I knew I had to do it...

I lightly sanded off the edge with 120 grit sandpaper.  This really brought out the curves and the lines.
See the difference?   The Right one has been distressed, compared to the Left one which has not.

I then stained it with a mixture of glaze and walnut stain 4:1

I love this wipe on poly stuff.  Two coats to add shine and protection.

The completed Red Buffet Table.....Isn't she a Beauty?

See the lightly distressed lines....

I had seen a project like this on HGTV, and I couldn't get it out of my head until I made one myself.  This is a mirror decorated with the shiny colorful material of pop cans.

It took a while to find just the right base to start, but I got lucky to find this mirror on clearance at Gordman's for $20.

It was originally brown, but I spray painted it black.

The reason it was on clearance was because there were a few missing pieces of these raised blocks.  But my wonderful husband cut a few for me to fill in the blanks with.  Thanks Honey!

I knew they would be covered up anyway, so no one would ever know!                                                                    

I had saved many pop cans over a few months, cut off the tops and the bottoms so that I had flat aluminum pieces.  Then I cut 1 1/2 inch squares to fit on the raised blocks.

There was 168 raised blocks, with four little nails on each corner of the square to hold on the aluminum piece.
(FYI thats 672 nails plus or minus a few I had to yank out)

It took a while.  I basically had this on my kitchen table for a week, and I would sit down for some nailing sessions
every chance I could.

Blood sweat and tears went into this one!

Here's the final product! I just love how shiny and colorful she looks!

The side view

Definitely a conversation piece, wouldn't you say?
This is for my sweet daughter Erin to hang in her new apartment!