DIY Dinning Room Table Makeover

You all know how I love a "makeover"! Taking a piece of furniture that has been well loved and breathing new life into it.........YEP sign me up! Here is the pre-makeover story. When I delivered my baby girl over we knew we would need to purchase a new table.  In less than a year we would no longer all fit around our small round garage sale table anymore. We bought a new but very inexpensive table. It has served us very well over these past five years, but after enduring many booster seats it needed some help. Here is what my table looked like BEFORE.

 You can't really tell from the picture but the top had many scratches and the second seat on the right has most of it's finish rubbed off from Julia's booster seat when she was little. I was very excited to try Anne Sloan Chalk Paint on this project! I had heard nothing but good things about it. I am was thrilled with the result I got as well! No sanding, no priming, just brushing on two coats of chalk paint, then three coats of wax to the top of my tabletop and I had my project completed! I have since decided that I will also add a double coat of polyurethane for a moisture barrier as well. I'm giddy happy with the results! This is the AFTER........

 I am so thrilled that my mother-in-law recommended this lovely red when I was going back and forth about what color to paint the chairs! I'm smitten over them. I spray painted the chairs with a Rustoleaum Universal primer and paint in ONE spray paint. I did sand them a bit to rough the finish and then sprayed till my heart was content. Each chair required one can of spray paint.

The chalk paint rubbed away so wonderfully easy to give my new table the lovely distressed look I LOVE! I feel like I have an entirely new dinning room table and chairs.....but only spent about $50 to breath new life into my existing one. Money well spent, in my book, to extend the life of my much used furniture. My sweet hubby said that this project is his favorite DIY project makeover I had done. Ahhhh shucks honey....you made me blush!

Beyond Busy

Well hello there, I Am just popping in to reassure you all that I haven't given up blogging. I just have hardly had enough energy left to drag myself to bed after non-stop busy days of harvesting and canning. I haven't taken the extra time I snap many photos lately either. I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and harvest time is starting to slow down a little. I am over the moon thankful for all we have been blessed with this year despite the terrible drought. I have noticed many of the blogs I LOVE to follow have been pretty quiet too, so I think many of you understand my silence. Also in the crazy mix, I'm gearing up for another great year of schooling my kiddos! 
So while I continue my blogging break to take care of the things I love to do.....Happy Harvest to you all. As well as, Happy back to school time.

Rocking Chair Makeover

Last fall I bought this solid wood rocker for $10 at a garage sale....such a steal! I thought it needed a little makeover because I wasn't crazy about the design on the back of it.

 I went to work sanding...priming...sanding...two coats of paint

I ended up with this beautiful green (Dried Fern) finish. I'm was really happy with how it turned out and proud that all my hard work saved me a ton of money over buying a new one!

I went out the very next day and saw that our little puppy really likes my chair too. So much so that he was showing his love by chewing on it.....Isn't that sweet of him?....I thought so!

Why not show some love by chewing on it a little bit more.....it's a good thing that puppy is so cute!

Plan B was to try to hide the "Love marks"....In the end it all turned out just fine. It's still function. al, I can sit and read, listen to the rain, and enjoy some quiet time out on the porch in my rocking chair.

 I just love wonderful smelling pansies, and "snow" cascading out of this crock!

Bookcase Makeover!

We have had this bookcase...stand...whatever you'd like to call it, around since we were married. I've threaten many times to trash it and somehow my husband has always found a reason why I shouldn't. Since moving to the new house I got this idea on how I should give it new life with a little makeover. This is what I decided to do......

The first thing I did was rip off the cardboard/super thin piece of plywood!

Then I made sure I turned on a few fans...then took my bottle of spray paint and went to town! I decided to use an ivory color. It's going in Julia's room which has Lavender color walls. They extra fun thing is that I used spray paint that is intended for outdoor use on plastic so it's super durable and I got a textured kind called shimmer so it was ivory with silver glitter! FUN!

This is what it looked like after 2 coats of "Shimmer" paint.

I used left over bead board (left over from the kitchen island makeover) for a new backing and painted it a dark gray (left over paint). Then I roughed it up just a bit...

I think it's safe to say I gave this furniture a new lease on life! I LOVE IT!