D's Room Makeover - Ugly Chair Re-do

D didn't have any furniture in her room besides a twin bed and a nightstand. (original post) I wanted to give her a place to sit to tie her shoes, to play her guitar, or just a place to toss her jacket. 

I went to the local DI and found this. It is a metal frame chair with plastic seat and back. Ew! I liked the shape and it was only $4! Score!  My sister and mom were like, "Why on Earth would she get THAT chair...there's no hope!"

 Well, look at me now! This was such an EASY makeover it was silly!  

 I unscrewed the seat, and the back rest just popped right out.  

I spray painted the metal frame in Heirloom White.  

I took the plastic off the seat.  

The foam was still in good condition so I reused it. 

I covered it with this damask scrap that my sister had.

Then I screwed it back in place. 

For the back I used spray adhesive and covered it and popped it back in place.

 Last, I bought the green trim from JoAnn's to finish it off.

I LOVE how it turned out!

What have you beautified lately?

Lots o' love,

Megan

Front Door Frame

I found this awesomely chunky frame at a yard sale a couple weeks ago.

 I spray painted it with Rust-o-leum Metallic Silver.  It covered REALLY well. I love Rust-o-leum!

 The velvet trim didn't take the paint so I improvised.

 I scrounged around for ribbon and heated up my trusty glue gun.

 I used 2 different techniques for the ribbon.  For the turquoise ribbon I cut each of the 4 pieces at an angle.

 I see how long I needed to cut it, I butted up the corners together and 

 cut the angles using the frame as a guide.

 Then I glued one end making sure it met the other corner piece.

 Last I ran a bead of glue on the other part and pressed it down.

This method worked out alright...but then I thought of something I liked better!

 Instead of pre-cutting all 4 pieces and then hot gluing, I just cut and glued as I went.  This worked out MUCH better!  I laid the first side down, ran glue, pressed it down,

 and THEN clipped the corners at an angle.

 You can see the difference in techniques here.  The yellow miter cut doesn't have any space, and the turquoise has a teeny gap...barely noticeable, but enough to let you know there's a better way to do it!

 Here's what it looks like with the ribbon all on.  I love turquoise and and nice sunny yellow together!

 Since the frame was originally meant to be hung in landscape format, I needed to change it since I was going to use it in portrait format.  I grabbed some screws and my husband's drill to make a picture hanger.

I LOVE my husband's drill!  Can you tell the glue gun and ribbon are it's friends!

 I slapped a couple screws in there

 and twisted some craft wire around them

 back and forth a couple times

until it was nice and strong.

 I printed a quote Cindy sent me from Cinsarah's Etsy shop and put glue dots on the corners and put it in the frame.

 So now instead of my front door screen looking like this...

 ...it looks like this!

Don't you love the graphic?!  Go buy one for yourself!

Lots o' love,

Megan

"Spring"ing it up!

Feeling sad and blue?

 Add FLOWERS!!!

I was at Dollar Tree today getting birthday supplies for my son's party this weekend, when some other items caught my eye... (I already had the spray paint)

 I sprayed 5 pots white.

 Then used the overspray circles as a guide...

 ...and cut them out...

 ...to fit down on the inner lip of the pot.

 I went outside and scooped me up some dirt to cover the cardboard.  I started with the regular nozzle on my glue gun but switched to the wide flat nozzle instead and it worked SO much better!

 Just work in small sections so the glue doesn't dry before you can get it pressed in the dirt.

 I cut the foam blocks in half and put a piece in each pot.

 The flower bunches had 7 stems so I used a skewer to poke 7 holes through the back side of the cardboard.

 Now, put the cardboard in the pot and poke the stems through so it goes into the foam and voila! A super lightweight kinda real looking pot of flowers!

 Repeat 5 times and hang with super long twist ties.

I also hot glued a light green polka dot ribbon under the lip of the pot.  

Now that's my kind of makeover!

From drab to fab! Not bad for $11!  What do you think?  What projects are you working on to bring on the Spring?