Labor Day Labor.....Turned Shabby Chic

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!! We enjoyed our relaxing 4 day maybe a little to much......so on Labor Day I thought it would only be fair to do some manual LABOR!!

Recently I had purchased a dresser from Goodwill for $25 (sorry no before picture...my camera was DEAD and I just couldn't wait) It was a mess with dents, scratches & stickers all over it!! But the bones of it were in GREAT shape so I bought it & it sat in my garage.....until I decided it was time to give it a go on Labor Day!!

I started out by cleaning it and taking the hardware & stickers off! Then I spray painted it with a white primer.....Really?? who has time to sand!!

Paint it CUTE and let it dry if you can be patient....which I totally can not!!

Next all the hardware needed to be replaced......I got the pulls for ONLY .94 cents....YES you read that correctly..... .94 cents a piece at Lowes!! SCORE:)

Here's the catch they were BRASS!! And I don't do brass....so I spray painted them with gray primer and then spray painted them black (stuff I already had around the house)

Then I distressed it......I am absolutely in LURVE with the Shabby Chic look right now!!! And it's so easy to do!! You can use sand paper, but your finger nail works just as good....maybe even better!!

Now all I have to do is find a home for it & move on to my next furniture victim!!

XOXO,

April

Thrift Store Redo

I recently went to His House......a Thrift Store in Columbia, S.C. and scored this uber cute side table for $5 buck a roos!!

Now it definitely had some wear and tear......but I had other plans for this sweet thang!!



I started out by cleaning it off and when I turned it over, much to my surprise it was an Ethan Allen table.......WHAT??? SUPER SCORE!!



Then I got out......you guessed it.....my true love....Krylon Spray Paint!!

I used a primer since I didn't feel like sanding the table (I mean really, who has time for that??) and then spray painted it my new favorite Krylon color........EVER.......Blue Ocean Breeze!!

Doesn't that sound amazing??

And......



I LURVE it!!

It's just what I had been looking for!! I had been on the hunt for a nightstand for our guest bedroom for some time now......but I could never find anything that I just fell in LURVE with & I didn't want to spend a bookoo of $$$!!
BONUS.....it matches the throw pillow perfectly:) Which makes my heart flutter!!



Whole project cost around: $11 Dollars....YEAH:)



***Please ignore the black lamp and cord....this is NOT I repeat NOT the lamp going in this room!! I'm still on the prowl for that!! I stole this lamp from another room to see how the whole set up would look....you know I'm a VISUAL person;)


XOXO,
April