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Renew & Brighten Old Chairs

August 14, 2018 by Mary Ellen Stringham Leave a Comment

My husband and I love to visit garage sales, antique stores and the occasional auction. We love to renew, brighten and /or remake the old things that we find. Several years ago we, on a whim, attended a small local auction. There wasn’t a large crowd and that made it fun and easy to see and buy several items inexpensively. We purchased 4 old chairs for $20. This summer we decided to

“Renew & Brighten Old Chairs”.

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Train Bedroom

October 30, 2014 by Margaret 1 Comment

My Tyler’s bedroom was the next to get decorated after the Master Bedroom. I made him a train quilt when he first got his big boy bed and he still loves Thomas the train so decided to keep the train theme going. I first thought about making the room very colorful with a train border that looked something like a circus train, but my little boy is growing up fast and I didn’t want to decorate again next year. So, I tried to pick a more grown up train theme.

I think it worked! He loves it!

The wooden train was made by my Grandpa. I love that Tyler has something from his Great-Grandpa.

Instead of adding a border around the room my mom came up with a great idea. Sporadically stencil them around the room. Then turned out great. In the solid color I think it looks less like a baby’s room.

I thought the train track was going to be so hard, but it wasn’t. It took a little time to measure and tape but it went really fast. Even the touch up went fast. I love Blue Painters Tape! I was worried because I have texture walls. If you just spend a little extra time smoothing the tape on it work works great. Oh, and don’t be afraid to use a razor blade to score tape before you take it off.

I could not have done this without my mom’s help. Thanks mom!

The “Railroad Crossing” coat rack is one of my favorite things we did to the room. Again, thanks mom. My kids are so lucky to have such a great Grandma. I should her a picture of what I wanted and she made it for me. Tyler now has a great place for his coat and backpack.

Tricks we learned:

Put up the child gate to keep the little helpers out.
Ask someone to help you.
Follow the directions from ScotchBlue Painters tape when painting on textured walls.

Thanks,

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Paint Master Bedroom {Master Bedroom Makeover}

July 2, 2014 by Margaret 2 Comments

Beautiful Double Wedding Ring Quilt, but master bedroom needs a makeover. www.spindlesdesigns.com #masterbedroommakeover #paintmasterbedroom

As much as I love my Double Wedding Ring quilt my grandma quilted for my wedding, I was ready for a change. Aren’t my curtains terrible. I never got around to making new ones when we moved in 4 years ago. I made these for our first apartment.

They have served there purpose now they need a good burial. I can’t wait to retire them. Just after my third baby was born we touched up all the paint in my bedroom and hallway. I thought that would be enough to get me happy with my room,

but the decorating bug hit and inspiration struck.

I was tired on my room being the storage room.

Clear the clutter. Creat a beautiful Masterbedroom. www.spindlesdesigns.com #paintmasterbedroom

So, while my husband was out of town mom and I painted. He did know I was going to paint, no going behind his back – this time.
He even helped me pick the color. I think he was really afraid I was going to pick pink when I told him I wanted to paint. Did he really think I would do that to him?

New color for the master bedroom - love it! www.spindlesdesigns.com #paintmasterbedroom

I decided to go shabby chic. I’m trying to use things I already have and add a few new things as I find them. Then of course I need to stick to the budget! I haven’t really set one but I

promised my husband I wouldn’t go too crazy.

New color for Master Bedroom. www.spindlesdesigns.com #paintmasterbedroom

I love how it turned out! New bedding makes a big difference too.

Phase 1 complete - paint and new comforter. www.spindlesdesigns.com #paintmasterbedroom

Such a difference!
Not the greatest picture, but wait till you see what I did next.

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Painted Floor Tutorial

August 30, 2013 by Margaret 2 Comments

What do you do when your cat gets sick
all over your light colored carpet while
you’re on vacation and stains it?

Well this happened to us. We didn’t want to re-carpet and couldn’t really afford the wood floor, that will eventually come, so we ripped out the carpet and painted the floor. Now this was not a new concept in our family we did it once before in another house.

In the last house it was a cement floor, this time it was just the plywood floor that seems to be under every carpet. In the planning of this project I looked and looked for some help and didn’t find much all in one place, thus this tutorial to maybe help others.

We enjoy our floor and hope this will help you.

Mary Ellen

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DYI Message Center

August 23, 2013 by Margaret 5 Comments

DIY

In my kitchen/great room I had this small quite useless set of shelves. They were really to small for most books and ended up collecting whatever.

In the process of remodeling my kitchen (which will be another post) I decided that I was tired of this space and my husband and I came up with the idea of

“Message Center”.

John really dislikes magnets and other stuff on the refrigerator, so it had to be magnetic and I thought

it would be fun to have a chalkboard.

We decided to combined the two.

He carefully removed the shelves and patched up any holes, made a list and went to “Home Depot” (his favorite store).

The magnetic chalkboard was easy. We bought a large piece of sheet metal trimmed it to size and spray painted it with black chalkboard paint, (Rust-o-leum, they have great stuff). We glued it on the wall and framed it with small molding. Above and below the chalkboard John covered the walls with Bead Board. We found some great black iron baskets and hung them on the wall to hold coupons, magazines, etc. to keep them from collecting on the counters.

We found this great word art sign on our Seaside,OR weekend, and hung it in the empty spot at the top. It fits our family and gave the finishing touches. Oh, I can’t forget, the space on the floor is the perfect size for the cat’s water and food dishes.

It was a fun and easy project.

Mary Ellen

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