My Home Project Ideas

The creative side of me is growing and I love refinishing, or adding personal touches to furniture, and other home decor items.  I’ve listed a few projects attempted and the materials used.  I’m all about cute, inexpensive ideas, the DIY kind of thing.  Recently, I sold most of my original furniture and decor items in a garage sale before moving; then went a new direction.  Had to color my world a bit.  Most inspiration came from beach cottage and/or vintage-modern styles.

1) Colorful Bistro Set -

My great grandmothers dining chairs that I sprayed with Krylon’s Catalina Mist spray paint and reupholstered with batting and fabric from Hancock Fabrics.  It only took about 1/2 yard to cover two chairs and secured with a staple gun.  I even had a small piece of fabric left to add a centerpiece to my coffee table.  End table from my mom, painted Flame Creeper, paint from Walmart.

2) Coffee Table Centerpiece –

This bright, colorful centerpiece is just plastic apples from Walmart, my leftover upholestry fabric trimmed and a basket from a local craft/flower store.

3) Antique Wall Hanging -

 

This is one of my favorite and probably least expensive wall hangings in my entire home.  The old window is from a local antique store (about $9) that I painted with aqua paint and then roughed up with some sandpaper to give it that worn look.  Then for some more color I nailed a vintage cream wall bucket filled with a few bunches of artificial flowers that were 50% off at Hobby Lobby.

4) Framed Up Fabric -

Easy way to add color to a room and use up extra picture frames.

5) Foot of Bed Storage -

This piece was the bottom of an old china cabinet someone gave me for free.  I painted, distressed it and added cushions to the top.  The doors open to create a great storage space for shoes, etc.  Top cushions are just fabric safety pinned around a foam piece (I’m not much of a seamstress so if you are feel free to use your skills here).

6) Easy Homemade Vase –

Prime and spray paint a cleaned glass jar, wine bottle or vase for added color to your tables or shelves.  I used a Starbuck’s Frappuccino drink container and painted it Krylon’s blue ocean breeze spray paint.

The vases were made using the same process from above, obviously using a different colored spray paint, Rustoleum Pebble.  The metal tile is from an old opera ceiling that I bought at a craft show and painted.

7) Yarn Wrapped Wreath -

My sister and I are kind of partners in crime when it comes to making different things and sparking ideas in each other.  She started making these adorable wreaths.  So I take no credit for this project.  She made this one for me.  Wrap yarn around a wreath form and add felt flowers and leaves with a glue gun.  Attach a ribbon or piece of burlap at the top to hang it on your door (my door is white so I had to remove it for the picture).

8) No Sew Pillows -

I needed to recover my pillows to match my new decor.  I can’t sew and didn’t want to buy new pillows so I recovered the existing form in fabric and tied a know in the front.  My nonexistent sewing skills led me to safety-pin the fabric to the form and to secure the knot.

9) Coffee Table Decor -

Container directions above (Starbuck’s frappuccino), red flowers from IKEA and place mat Pier 1.

10) Inexpensive DIY Headboard -

Snagged this idea from good ol’ Martha Stewart.  A painted curtain rod mounted with a piece of fabric.  Simple and easy.  The inspiration picture used a quilted blanket and thicker curtain rod, painted to match wall color:http://www.marthastewart.com/273531/quilt-headboard